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SUB-GENRES · Musical · Performance · Rockumentary · Tone Poem
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Catch My Disease
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity...Start your free trial to watch
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Chickens in the Shadows
In 1979, Toasters ‘N’ Moose formed, put out one album and disbanded. Now thirty years later, their old manager has brought them together again for a three-day tour of Northern California. Featuring their now classic hit “Taste the Biscuit” and live performances of many more great songs, our cameras follow...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella 2000
Drive-in movie legends Al Adamson and Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) created some of the most outrageous, colorful and beloved 'B' pictures ever to hit the silver screen. Adamson's CINDERELLA 2000 takes the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale into the farthest reaches of a way-out future and puts an Orwellian spin on...Start your free trial to watch
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Coals to Newcastle
Leeds, U.K. The birthplace of funk? Not quite, but the hometown of a rising funk-jazz phenomenon, the New Mastersounds. By offering the first Jazz degree in Europe, Leeds College of Music attracted scores of talented musicians to this Northern former industrial hub to master forms of music that had been...Start your free trial to watch
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Complicated Drumming Technique
Jens Hannemann knows everything there is to know about rudiments, hand-foot control, tempo, time signatures, cymbal and bell work, stick positioning, stick inspection, stage presence, jazz terms, rock terms, music reading, drum composition, drum notation, crowd work, drum tuning, equipment rental...Start your free trial to watch
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Count Basie: Then as Now, Count's the King
Jazz great William "Count" Basie comes back to life in this rich documentary, which traces the history of the pianist, composer and bandleader over several decades. Filmmaker Gary Keys juxtaposes a roundtable discussion among old cats from the Count Basie Orchestra with recorded performances, including a...Start your free trial to watch
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Dancing on the Moon
The opening shot echoes the Georges Méliès classic A TRIP TO THE MOON. But, in the case of this Fleischer Studios cartoon, the moon-bound rocket is the “Honeymoon Express.” A zoologically diverse assortment of newlyweds dance their way to a space vacation (except Mr. Cat is left playing solitaire when he...Start your free trial to watch
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Dear Arabella
Ancestors of music videos, YANKEE DOODLER, ROSIE THE RIVETER, and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coin-operated jukebox devices found in restaurants, bars, and train stations. On built-in glass screens, they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes. These examples, although not in perfect...Start your free trial to watch
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Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS chronicles the rise and fall of Bunny, Kitty, and Patch (Hilary Rubens, Jennifer Schwartz, and Janet Housden), three teenage runaways who form an all-girl rock group, The Lovedolls. Their rise to fame from a nowhere, drug-filled street life, is overnight thanks to the sleazy...Start your free trial to watch
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Duo Concertantes
DUO CONCERTANTES has two parts, THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION and PATRICIA GIVES BIRTH TO A DREAM BY THE DOORWAY. Both PATRICIA and HAMFAT ASAR (made the following year), the two most spectacular of Lawrence Jordan's animated works, operate against the backdrop of a fixed scene. In the former, it is a back...Start your free trial to watch
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Roy Eldridge
Not long after settling on Camano Island, Bruce Baillie began creating works on video. Many of these shorts and fragments were little-seen since Canyon Cinema, the distribution organization he co-founded in 1961, limited its efforts to film and declined to distribute Baillie's video pieces. Undeterred, this brevity of video...Start your free trial to watch
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Elvis: Return to Tupelo
Presley may have been born with the Rock ‘n Roll in his blood but without poverty, southern culture and a mother whom he adored, Elvis Aaron Presley might have been just another poor white guy rather than the King. Narrated by prolific country musician and actor Kris Kristofferson, this feature-length...Start your free trial to watch
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Emmanuel Jal: War Child
“Left home at the age of seven, one year later I’m carryin’ an AK-47.” His electrifying music crackles with both pain and hope. For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who was...Start your free trial to watch
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Brian Eno: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Brian Eno: musician, composer, producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist. Probably best known for his early work with Roxy Music, his production duties for U2 and Coldplay and as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. This first-ever documentary film about Eno explores his life, career...Start your free trial to watch
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Everyday Sunshine
From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Ronald Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last twenty-five years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the...Start your free trial to watch