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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Canyon: DVD

Laurel Canyon Director: Alison Ellwood Canyon Films, LLC / Madman It’s hard to see this as anything more than a boomer circle-jerk: Oooh, we had the best music didn’t we… Laurel Canyon is this near-mythical place in songs, in albums, in bands’ biographies. It is real. It was a place; a place where a large […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 60s, 70s, Alison Ellwood, Canyon Films, Crosby Still and Nash, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Review, DVD, DVD Review, Eagles, Film, Film Review, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Laurel Canyon, Laurel Canyon: DVD, Linda Ronstadt, Madman, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Neil Young, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A: DVD

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A Director: Steve Loveridge Madman  The Amy Winehouse documentary was devastating – of course. But what was amazing about it – as is the case with documentary subjects that came of age across the last two decades – was the gathered footage. Home videos, goof-offs, early social media…
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doco, Doco Review, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Film, Film Review, Hip-Hop, Immigrant, M.I.A., Madman, Madonna, Matangi, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A: DVD, Mathangi Arulpragasam, Maya, Movie Review, Music Doco, Politics, Pop Music, Rap, Sri Lanka, Steve Loveridge, Superbowl, Tamil, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Hello I Am David!: Film

Hello I Am David! Director: Cosima Lange Basis berlin Filmproduktion/Beleza Film For so many people, the introduction to David Helfgott was the movie Shine – in retrospect, if not at that time, that film seems to be more about Geoffrey Rush’s performance than the actual story of Helfgott, Australian pianist who rebuilt his career after […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Classical, David Helfgott, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Review, Film, Film Review, Gillian Helfgott, Hello I Am David!, Hello I Am David!: Film, Love Story, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Piano, Shine, Travel, Travel Documentary ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bass, Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Eric Clapton, Film, Film Review, For the Record, Fourplay, Movie Review, Music Doco, Music Documentary, Nathan East, Nathan East - For The Record: Film, Nathan East: For The Record, Session Bassist ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged BBC, Daft Punk, Daft Punk - Unchained: DVD, Daft Punk Unchained, dance music, Discovery, Doc, Documentary, Duo, DVD Review, Film, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo, Herve Martin-Delpierre, Homework, Human After All, Music Doco, Random Access Memories, Techno, Thomas Bangalter, Tron: Legacy, UnchainedD ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Alan Parker, Classic Albums I Can't Ever Listen To Again, Concert Film, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Film, Floyd, Live Concert, Music Doco, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters The Wall, Roger Waters The Wall: DVD, The Wall ·

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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 – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Documentary, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Gospel, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Mavis!, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Pops Staples, Prince, Ry Cooder, Soul, The Staple Singers ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1968, Competition, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Extra Features, Film, Giveaway, Music Doco, The Doors, The Doors Are Open, The End, TWO Free Copies, Win ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Band Bio, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Getting Intimate, Katy Perry, Katy Perry: Getting Intimate, Music Doco, One Direction, Part Of Me, Unauthorised ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2014, BBC, Doco, Documentary, Kate Bush, Music Doco, Music Film, Running Up That Hill, The Kate Bush Story, The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Tribe Called Quest, AV set, Chris Manak, Dam-Funk, DJ, DJ Set, DJing, Documentary, Film, Gang Starr, Gig Review, Hip-Hop, J Dilla, Live, Live Set, Madlib, Madvillain, MAZDEF, Meow, Music Doco, Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton, Peanut Butter Wolf, Prince, Review, Stones Throw, Stones Throw Records, Sunday July 27 ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Auckland, Britpop, Concert Film, Doco, England, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Florian Habicht, Jarvis Cocker, Movie Review, Music Doco, Music Documentary, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Pulp, Pulp: A Film About Life Death & Supermarkets, Sheffield, Wellington ·
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