Tag Archives: Documentary

Amazing filmic gathering of American traditional artists at the Anthology Film Archives beginning tonight in NYC: THE HIGH LONESOME SCREEN: A FOLK FILM FESTIVAL AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES AUGUST 20-29 FILMS FROM THE ALAN LOMAX ARCHIVE, APPALSHOP, AND JOHN COHEN Just think of us as one enormous porch! From August …

“Rights? What are rights? Um, I think we have them.” Despite or because of this level of naive idealism, a documentary about the Ramones may finally come out this summer: OVER the last 15 months, “End of the Century,” a documentary about punk rock’s founding fathers, the Ramones, has been …

Surely Pink Floyd is the strangest mega-successful group in rock history. Beginning in the mid-’60s as a R&B-based hard rock band like the Who or Pretty Things, the band – Syd Barrett on guitar and vocals, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Richard Wright on keyboards, and Nick Mason on …

Last night’s episode of Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, called “Godfathers and Sons,” was a fascinating failure: fascinating because it gave insight into what made Chicago special in the development of the blues, especially the electric blues, and had some great recent and archival performances by Koko Taylor, Howlin’ Wolf, …

There is no way anyone can accuse Martin Scorsese of imposing any kind of uniformity of style of format upon the directors he chose for the seven films that make up his PBS series The Blues. Thus far we’ve had his own fairly straight documentary “Feel Like Going Home” connecting …

Sure, it’s a marketing tsunami, and the “Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues” branding on everything but Robert Johnson’s grave is a bit much. But the films have been tremendous, and the music is even better. After a pause due to the departure of our great friend and colleague Jan Herman, …

Steve was right: last night’s episode of Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, “The Road to Memphis,” was fun, powerful and very moving. Director Richard Pearce followed blues superstar B.B. King and mid-level blues veteran Bobby Rush in their respective tour buses as they and other performers converged on Memphis for …

I am really enjoying Martin Scorsese’s blues series on PBS. Sunday night’s debut was a journey, directed by Scorsese himself, from the Mississippi Delta to Mali in West Africa with young bluesman Corey Harris, going farther and farther back in time until all black music conjoined in the primordial, wildly …

This is very interesting: My name is Jed Horovitz. I run a very small company that distributes the movie previews you see in your local video store. We have about a half dozen employees. We’ve been doing that for 16 years. In 1998, we started to help retailers like Netflix.com …

The 1973 concert film Wattstax returns for a limited engagement theatrical run staring June 6 with original ending restored: On August 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended what came to be known as “the black Woodstock.” The popular appeal and broad diversity of the attending Stax Records artists ensured …