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Deals: HBO Gets Scorsese/Harrison Documentary
Tweet One of the most anticipated music films of the year, Martin Scorsese’s bio-doc George Harrison: Living in the Material World, will debut in October on HBO. The cable network announced yesterday...
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World (UK)
Tweet Martin Scorsese’s long awaited, 3+ hour bio doc follows George’s life and career through Beatlehood, spiritual questing, and solo success (the director said first hearing Harrison’s epic,...
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See the Trailer: Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison Bio
Tweet Is it just me, or does Living in the Material World sound like a Madonna music documentary? That being said, the highly anticipated music film on the life of George Harrison according to Martin...
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Deals: Authorized Suge Knight Doc on Tap from Showtime
Tweet Showtime, which seems to be making a big music documentary push these days, has unveiled its latest music film project: a biography of Suge Knight, the controversial hip hop impresario who...
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Tweet Directed by Martin Scorsese USA, 2011 Genre: Rock A few minutes into Living in the Material World, we glimpse George Harrison in a room full of dour-faced lawyers, champing at the bit to sign...
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Tweet Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig USA, 2005 Genre: Alternative/Indie, Singer-Songwriter Few artists embody the tragic and the beautiful quite like Daniel Johnston, and Jeff Feuerzeig’s powerful music...
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Deals: April Release for Bob Marley Music Documentary
Tweet On what would have been Bob Marley’s 67th birthday, Magnolia Pictures announced its acquisition of US rights for the upcoming authorized bio doc about the revolutionary reggae hero. Magnolia...
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Better Than Something: Jay Reatard
Tweet A staple of the 2011 festival circuit, Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz’s profile of the late garage-punk cult hero Jay Reatard opens theatrically March 2 at cinemas in Brooklyn, Seattle,...
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Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
Tweet Best known today for tunes like “Powerhouse” that provided the aural backdrop for dozens of classic Warner Bros. cartoons, Raymond Scott was also the longtime bandleader on Your Hit Parade; an...
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Marley
Tweet Bob Marley’s music, convictions, and contradictions are explored at length in Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s well-received music documentary about the late reggae icon and universal symbol...
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Marley
Tweet Directed by Kevin Macdonald USA/UK, 2012 Genre: Reggae Production history isn’t destiny – just ask James Cameron or George Lucas – but the portents did seem grim for the authorized Bob Marley...
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Brendan Toller: Tales of Danny Fields, Rock’s Ultimate Underground Insider
Tweet Danny Fields Brendan Toller met Danny Fields while working on his 2008 music documentary I Need That Record! As the filmmaker tells it, his then-girlfriend’s grandmother “used to go to the...
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Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
Tweet Directed by Lian Lunson USA, 2005 Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Concert Film Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man must have caused considerable frisson among Cohen’s fervent fans upon its release, given his...
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Roddy Bogawa: Taking Music Documentary by Storm
Tweet Storm Thorgerson and one of his better-known album covers. Roddy Bogawa had never heard of Storm Thorgerson – or rather, didn’t realize he had heard of Storm Thorgerson – until a dinner in New...
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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Tweet Directed by Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont Canada, 2009 Genre: Classical/Opera Genius and inner life are both elusive concepts, especially in the sensory overload of the cinema. This...
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Beware of Mr. Baker
Tweet Directed by Jay Bulger USA, 2012 Genre: Rock / Jazz / World Music – Africa Beware of Mr. Baker is about Ginger Baker, the drummer most famous for a) playing in ’60s rock giants Cream and b)...
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A Box Full of Rocks: A Music Film on the Making of Lester Bangs
Tweet In the nearly five decades that there’s been such a thing as rock writing, there have been many fine rock writers but just one genuinely great writer who wrote exclusively about rock, and that’s...
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AKA Doc Pomus
Tweet A heartfelt profile of and tribute to one of the unsung geniuses of popular music, AKA Doc Pomus opens theatrically on October 4 at New York’s Village East Cinemas and begins a national roll-out...
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Music Doc: Behind a Remarkable Songwriting Life in AKA Doc Pomus
Tweet Doc Pomus (right) and longtime writing partner Mort Shuman in the music documentary AKA Doc Pomus. In the early 1940s a kid from Brooklyn named Jerome Solon Felder decided he was Doc Pomus,...
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AKA Doc Pomus
Tweet Directed by Will Hechter and Peter Miller USA, 2012 Genre: Blues, Rock, Soul/R&B Jerome Felder, who died in 1991, was born in Brooklyn in 1925; at 6 he contracted polio, but by the late...
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