Music Documentary Tag Archive

Documentary, Podcasts

DN192 – Strange Powers – Kerthy Fix

With their feature documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields directors Gail O’Hara and Kerthy Fix paint a porttrait of musician

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Sound It Out: Adventures in Crowd Funding

I was at Sheffield Doc/Fest last week and crowd funding was everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE! It felt like the thing that was being talk about and discussed more

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2010: Lemmy – Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski

I feel silly trying to write an introduction to a documentary film named “Lemmy,” I hope when you hear the title you instinctively think of the legendary

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Documentary, Film Festival

LFF2010: Benda Bilili

Benda Bilili was the first film I had the pleasure of viewing at this year’s London Film Festival. It follows the street band Staff Benda Bilili,

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Documentary

The Archive

Following on from his stunning documentary The Bowler, which I posted on Directors Notes yesterday, comes Sean Dunne’s earlier Sundance selected short

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Strummerville: A Don Letts Film

Whilst the idea of creative people having to work across various platforms and art forms to succeed seems like a 21st century, internet bred phenomenon, some

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN168: Legend: a film about Greg Garing – Emily Branham

Few people are as qualified to make a judgment call as to a film’s quality as a fellow filmmaker; so when Jeanie Finlay suggested I take a look at Emily

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Documentary, Film Festival, Music Video

Filmstock 11: Oil City Confidential

Julian Temple completes his documentary trilogy of 70s music, with a beautifully inventive look at British pub rock band Dr. Feelgood.

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Documentary

Art vs. Industry: Inside the 7 Year Journey of Ondi Timoner’s Band Rivalry Music Documentary ‘DIG!’

Ondi Timoner on documenting The Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Dandy Warhols — two bands torn between friendship, jealousy and music industry demands.

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DN LFF09: Still Bill – Damani Baker & Alex Vlack

Damani Baker and Alex Vlack walk us through the 11 years of patient persistence behind their documentary about music legend Bill Withers in 'Still Bill'.

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Documentary, Film Festival

DN LFF09: The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights – Emmett Malloy

If The White Stripes were movie characters, they’d be pretty unrealistic and as a viewer you’d have a hard job believing all their quirks and oddities. A

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Documentary, Music Video, Podcasts

DN118: Rockin’ Brooklyn – Wojtek Bozyk

The music world has always been prone to focus on particular areas across the globe as hot spots of talent at a particular time and in doing so identify a

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