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August 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Midnight Oil – 1984: Film
Midnight Oil: 1984 Director: Rob Argall Piccolo Films Pty Ltd./Madman In 1985 Tears For Fears sang that “Everybody” wanted “to rule the world” from their hit of the same name. In 1980s pop – certainly by the mid-80s – musicians were either aiming to be world-beaters or world-savers. The political climate was fraught, the threat […]Archive
February 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken – Live from The Chicago Theatre
John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken – Live from The Chicago Theatre Enliven Entertainment/Eagle Rock Netflix Bruce Springsteen is the boss. And John Mellencamp is, at best, 2IC. Which is plain to see. Even more obvious to hear. And here he takes his Plain Spoken album – the 20-something-th of his career and places it in the live context, a […]Archive
January 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Roger Waters The Wall: DVD
Roger Waters The Wall Directors: Roger Waters & Sean Evans Rue 21 Productions/Universal Pictures I was barely joking when I wrote that I’d never be able to listen to The Wall by Pink Floyd, my first – obvious/logical – choice in an ongoing list of “Classic Albums” I never want to hear again. But that […]Archive
June 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 84 – Year of the Horse, Wellington, 1998
I can’t believe I’ve held on to some movie tickets – but I did love this film, Neil Young’s Year of the Horse; saw it first at the Wellington Film Festival in 1998, on the giant screen at the Embassy – in fact I’ve already written about it here, as one of the Movies of […]Archive
July 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Pulp – A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets: Film
Pulp: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets Director: Florian Habicht Pistachio Pictures Florian Habicht’s film about Pulp is not quite a band doco, never just a concert film and somehow it’s one of the very best band docos you could see, and a whole new approach to that stale turd that is the concert […]Archive
July 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes
Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes Director: Dick Fontaine BBC It was one of the greatest thrills of my life to speak to Sonny Rollins – and then to see him perform. That was a couple of years back now, back around the time this film, Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes, was made. It’s based around […]Archive
June 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Duran Duran: Unstaged
Duran Duran: Unstaged Director: David Lynch Transmission Films David Lynch directing Duran Duran in a concert film! Oh Wow! Amazing! A weird, dream pairing (or is that weird-dream pairing?) Anyway, have whatever thoughts you want and hold on to them because to actually watch this is to plunge yourself down for a long haul short […]Archive
May 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 9: Year of The Horse
I’ve watched a lot of music films – concert films, docos – those unauthorised bios. If it’s music-related I tend to get to it. But I love seeing a great music doco at the cinema and early one Saturday morning many years ago I trotted on down to that glorious big screen of The Embassy […]Archive
March 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Metallica: Through The Never
Metallica Through The Never Hopscotch I’ve already – recently – bemoaned the fact that Metallica continues to piss on whatever legacy it has with each and every release and yet, somehow, somehow, Through The Never – a concert film, released in 3D with a storyline about a roadie needing to save the day, which stands […]Archive
November 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend The Night Together
The Rolling Stones Let’s Spend The Night Together Umbrella It’s at least the second time this concert film has been made available on DVD – and there’s nothing new about it, so I’m not quite sure why it’s out and about again; re-released. Beyond, of course, the obvious money-scrape perhaps. But hey, one thing I’ll […]Archive
August 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman