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Ochsmania
Tweet Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune is shaping up as the first major music doc release of 2011, with a flurry of media attention for Kenneth Bowser’s chronicle of the troubled, iconoclastic protest...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream
Tweet Directed by Peter Bogdanovich USA, 2007 Genre: Rock Sure, it’s long – it’s takes an hour just to get to “American Girl,” for pete’s sake – but as a viewing experience, at least, this four-hour,...
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The Ballad of A.J. Weberman
Tweet Directed by James Bluemel, Oliver Ralfe UK, 2006 Genre: Rock, Folk/Roots Obsessives make the best documentaries, and they don’t come much more obsessed than A.J. Weberman, the ex-Lower East Side...
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News for Completists: Dont Look Back on Blu-ray
Tweet You know something is happening, and now you can see it in ultra high-def: Dont Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark verite chronicle of Bob Dylan’s galvanic 1965 UK tour, will be released on...
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Dont Look Back
Tweet Directed by D.A. Pennebaker USA, 1967 Genre: Rock, Folk/Roots, Concert Film In 1965 Bob Dylan was still just a folk singer, at least to his fans and the press that increasingly hounded him. But...
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Doc Soup Stirs the Rock Doc Pot
Tweet Cause we’re inveterate listophiles, and just to get a little midweek argument started, we direct your attention to the latest entry in Tom Roston’s Doc Soup column over at PBS’s POV blog,...
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Queen, Santana, Dylanology in BBC’s Spring Music Film Lineup
Tweet Yesterday we reported on the US-based Documentary Channel’s June SoundCheck series of music documentaries. It’s springtime for music docs in Blighty as well, with the BBC today announcing a host...
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Oliver Ralfe: The Ballad of Dylan and Weberman
Tweet Four years after a festival run that saw it win a British Independent Film Award, Tangled Up with Dylan – originally titled The Ballad of AJ Weberman – makes its television debut this weekend...
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Free Digital Debut for Harrison’s Bangladesh Concert Film
Tweet The post-Beatles music film news glut continues: the documentary The Concert for Bangladesh, which captures the 1971 benefit staged by George Harrison that The Guardian termed “rock’s first mass...
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The Last Waltz
Tweet Directed by Martin Scorsese USA, 1978 Genre: Rock, Concert Film Perhaps it’s not surprising that one of the greatest rock ’n’ roll concert films was directed by the greatest living American...
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Today in Music (Film): Subterranean Homesick Bob
Tweet Something that happened in music history on this date, and a music documentary that goes with it. Simple. On March 8, 1965, Columbia Records released catalog item No. 43242, a single by Bob...
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The Concert for Bangladesh
Tweet Directed by Saul Swimmer USA, 1972 Genre: Rock, Concert Film The movie of George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh premiered in March 1972 in New York, where the granddaddy of all star charity...
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Inside Bob Dylan’s Jesus Years: Busy Being Born … Again!
Tweet Directed by Joel Gilbert USA, 2008 Genre: Rock, Gospel, Singer-Songwriter In the late 1970s Bob Dylan was seeking purpose, meaning, and perhaps comfort in his life. Nearly 20 years in the public...
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Fire Down Below: Revisiting The Basement Tapes with Sam Jones
Tweet The all-star New Basement Tapes band, as pictured by photographer/filmmaker Sam Jones. Around Hollywood Sam Jones is known as a go-to photographer when magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone,...
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The Aggregate: May Cinema Release for Elliott Smith Film, Basement Tapes Doc...
Tweet A bit of recent news from the world of music documentaries. Heaven Adores You, Nickolas Rossi’s documentary about the personal and creative trajectory of the much-beloved singer-songwriter...
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Danny Said: More Tales from the Annals of Danny Fields
Tweet Brendan Toller’s music documentary Danny Says tells the story of Danny Fields, the rock ‘n’ roll gadfly and visionary talent spotter who was integral to the emergence of the Velvet Underground,...
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Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued
Tweet Directed by A-list photographer and filmmaker Sam Jones – making his first feature doc since the much-acclaimed 2002 Wilco film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart – Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes...
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