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May 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan East – For The Record: Film
Nathan East: For The Record Directors: Chris Gero/David Maxwell Yamaha Entertainment Group of America/New Wave Entertainment Television What started out, clearly, as a digital press-kit component to Nathan East’s debut solo album gets stretched beyond EPK and into feature-length documentary film. Understandable when you play into the film’s tagline that Nathan East is the most […]Archive
March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Daft Punk – Unchained: DVD
Daft Punk – Unchained Director: Herve Martin-Delpierre BBC Worldwide Productions An interesting, and worthy documentary that traces Daft Punk’s music and antics back to the start, in fact back to the pre-robot days when, in an early review of their shoegazer-ish group, they were written off as making “daft punk”. So, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and […]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
August 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Mavis!: Film
Mavis! Director: Jessica Edwards Film First Co./Home Box Office (HBO) It pretty hard to fault Mavis! – the feature-length doco covering the life of living legend Mavis Staples. I’ve seen Staples perform three times in recent years, highlights in every show and I’ve been charmed by her as an interview subject. She’s funny, wise – […]Archive
March 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Doors: Feast of Friends
The Doors Feast of Friends Eagle Rock Entertainment/ Eagle Vision/Shock The Doors’ Feast of Friends was an impressionistic documentary feature made in 1968, shown a handful of times and then buried. So now it’s here on DVD for all to see and padded out with a few extras. The original film – Feast of Friends […]Archive
October 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Katy Perry – Getting Intimate: DVD
Katy Perry: Getting Intimate Director: Sonia Anderson Madman Part of me actually quite enjoyed the official Katy Perry doco, Part of Me – somewhere in there, perhaps buried a bit deep for some of Perry’s fans there was an awareness of the pop-fandom microscope, of the banality and the awkwardness of gushing fans. And if […]Archive
August 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Kate Bush Story – Running Up That Hill: Film
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill Director: Adrian Sibley BBC Released amid the excitement of Bush’s first live shows in 35 years The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill is a BBC documentary that assembles a wonderful cast and offers a considered portrait of Bush, right up to and including her most […]Archive
July 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Peanut Butter Wolf + Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton (July 27, Wgtn)
Peanut Butter Wolf + Our Vinyl Weights A Ton documentary Meow, Wellington Sunday, July 27 Peanut Butter Wolf, born Chris Manak, is a hip-hop DJ and producer and the founder of Stones Throw Records. His show in Wellington, the final from a series of dates around Australia and New Zealand accompanied a screening of the […]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 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman