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May 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Sound of Her Guitar: Film

The Sound of Her Guitar Director: Bill Morris Wild Islands Media I’ve enjoyed some of Donna Dean’s music but I really enjoyed this version of her life story, a documentary about her travel through America, her early life in New Zealand, the redemptive power of the country music she sought out as both means to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Akld, America, Auckland, Bill Morris, Country, Country Music, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Donna Dean, Film, Film Review, Movie, Movie Review, Music Documentary, New Zealand Music, NZ, Q, Roxy, The Sound of Her Guitar: Film, Travel, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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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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May 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: Film

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Director: Brett Morgen HBO Documentary Films/Public Road Productions The first official, authorised documentary of Kurt Cobain, it’s been assembled lovingly, painstakingly, some eight years in the making…but it doesn’t feature Dave Grohl at all (elephant in the room) and it probably never needed to happen. The idea that this is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Brett Morgan, Courtney Love, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Review, Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Music Documentary, Nirvana ·

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August 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Creating 20,000 Days on Earth: A chat with filmmakers Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth

Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth believe the key to their film – 20,000 Days on Earth – a hybrid feature-film/documentary, an impressionistic glimpse into Nick Cave’s world (for a day) – is trust. Nick Cave trusted them. They trusted him. They trust each other. Pollard and Forsyth met at art school and have a partnership […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged 20 000 Days on Earth, Art, Blixa Bargeld, Cave, Doco, Documentary, Feature Film, Film, Iain Forsyth, Interview, Jane Pollard, Mick Harvey, Music, Music Documentary, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push The Sky Away, Rowland S. Howard, The Bad Seeds, UK, Visual Artists, Warren Ellis, Writing ·

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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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June 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Punk Singer: Film

The Punk Singer: A Film About Kathleen Hanna Director: Sini Anderson Opening Band Films Kathleen Hanna – feminist icon, performance artist, musician, style icon (or perhaps anti-style icon?) – there are plenty of reasons for a revealing documentary about the former Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontperson; fortunately The Punk Singer nails it and also […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Alt, Alternative Culture, Bikini Kill, Doco, Feminism, Film, Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre, Movie, Movie Review, Music Documentary, Opening Band Films, Riot Grrrl, Sini Anderson, The Julie Ruin, The Punk Singer, The Punk Singer: A Film About Kathleen Hanna, Zines ·

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June 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 11: Shihad Beautiful Machine

You should see this film. It’s the best music documentary that will ever come out of New Zealand. It has grit and heart and soul – and then there is the manipulation, the rewriting of history, the candidness that becomes a cover for what is tantamount to backstabbing. It’s all here. Shihad is New Zealand’s […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Film Review, Kiwi, Movie, Movies of My Life, Movies of My LIfe # 11, Movies of My Life # 11 Shihad Beautiful Machine, Music, Music Doco, Music Documentary, NZ, Phantom Billstickers, Shihad, Shihad: Beautiful Machine ·

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March 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Stone Roses – Made of Stone: DVD

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone Director: Shane Meadows Channel 4 DVD Look, I like The Stone Roses, I do. But I never needed to see this – and wish I hadn’t. Okay, okay, I like the band but I don’t love them. I never could get that special feeling that would make one a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Documentary, DVD Review, Music Doco, Music Documentary, Shane Meadows, The Stone Roses ·

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January 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

20 Feet From Stardom: Film

20 Feet From Stardom Director: Morgan Neville Gil Friesen Productions The real magic in 20 Feet From Stardom is that no one thought to tell this story before; it’s documentary gold: the helpers, the people behind the stars, the ones doing the work and making the stars sound good – 20 Feet From Stardom shares […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20 Feet From Stardom, Doco, Documentary, Film Review, Music Doco, Music Documentary ·

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October 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Legend of Liam Clancy: NZ TV Premiere

  The Legend of Liam Clancy Director: Alan Gilsenan Sky TV: Arts Channel This TV mini-series/documentary sees its NZ TV premier this Saturday, November 2, 8.30pm on SKY Television’s ARTS Channel. It’s a fantastic film. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were the first musical superstars from Ireland, their folk songs went on to influence […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Arts, ARTS Channel, Autobiography, Book, Competition, Film Review, Giveaway, Ireland, Irish Music, Liam Clancy, Memoir, Music Documentary, Sky, Sky TV, The Clancy Brothers, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Legend of Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem, TV Documentary ·

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October 22, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Iron Maiden: Behind The Beast

Iron Maiden: Behind The Beast Director: Andy Matthews EMI Originally part of the En Vivo! live concert DVD the Iron Maiden documentary feature, Behind The Beast, works as a standalone film, showing the world that goes on behind the scenes in order to get Eddie and the band to the stage on time. What’s interesting […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Behind The Beast, DVD Review, Eddie, Iron Maiden, Music Documentary, Prime Rocks, Prime TV ·

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August 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Beware of Mr. Baker: Film

Beware of Mr. Baker Director: Jay Bulger Vivendi Entertainment This film, a documentary of legendary Cream/Blind Faith tub-thumper, Ginger Baker, gets off to a flying start with Baker butting the filmmaker with the end of his cane – a bop on the nose as if a mad flam intro and then off into a 5/4 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Beware of Mr Baker, Blind Faith, Cream, Doco, Documentary, DVD, Eric Clapton, Film Review, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Music Documentary, Stewart Copeland ·

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