By Bob Margolin The more blues-driven musicians commandeered the instruments at the jam, and played some old favorite songs together, mostly Robert Johnson’s. This sounds like a common scene at open-mic jams […]
THE LAST WALTZ BLUES JAM
Trailer: Rip It Up and Start Again
A ‘proof-of-concept’ trailer for a four-part series covering the post-punk scenes of the years 1978-82, using Simon Reynolds’ book ‘Rip It Up + Start Again’ as a roadmap. This version is a […]
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and […]
ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
A documentary revisiting the seminal works ‘The Plateaux of Mirror’ (1980) and ‘The Pearl’ (1984), by artists Harold Budd and Brian Eno. Rare interviews and anecdotes from the artists accompany a fan-crafted […]
The Weather Underground
When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: […]
“Blacks’ Britannica” (1978 banned film on immigration and racism)
This documentary was produced by Musindo Mwinyipembe and David Koff for the Public Broadcasting (PBS) affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts. PBS refused to air the film as the creators intended, and instead broadcast […]
Kraftwerk – Pop Art
BBC documentary 2013.
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
An intimate, revealing NHK documentary portrait of Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away) follows the tireless animator from his announced semi-retirement in 2013 through his decision to develop Boro the Caterpillar, […]
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait Trailer
Check out the new trailer directed by Pappi Corsicato!
A polysexual love triangle in Berlin
Los Angeles-based director Jordan Blady, known for his videos for the likes of Microsoft and Spotify, talks about his short film, Syllables: “In terms of narrative, I am most fascinated by characters […]
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