Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
James Bay’s soaring voice, dexterity on the guitar and statuesque good looks have earned him a Critic’s Choice Award last year. While his attained superstardom has decisively measured up to previous winners like Adele, Sam Smith and Florence & The Machine, James Bay has deftly and humbly maintained a balancing act between his chaos and calm with a down-to-earth, easy going attitude. A remarkable songwriting talent in the truest sense.
A live document of his winter 2019 European tour that saw him taking on possibly his most ambitious live show to date.
I Ramones is a half-hour of concert footage captured in Rome in 1980, just after the release of the Phil Spector-produced album End of the Century. Shot on film, it laid forgotten in the vaults of an Italian television station for two decades after its one-time broadcast.
Road To Austin chronicles how Austin, Texas became the Live Music Capital of the World, dating from 1835 to present day. The film builds to a climax and weaves its way towards an all-star live performance led by Stephen Bruton and his 14-piece band.
Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn.
Daybreak, a first-year EDM festival gets hit with inclement weather. As the fear of headliners canceling, attendees demanding refunds, the deeper purpose of the festival becomes clear - but is it enough to save Daybreak?
Capturing the sights, sounds, and magic of Carlton Haney’s 1971 Labor Day Festival in Camp Springs, North Carolina; a three-day outdoor festival—the first of its kind—featuring bluegrass veterans and future stars alike sharing the primitive wood and cinder block stage. More than just capturing one of the largest bluegrass festivals of that decade, this documentary is also an interesting mixture of live performances, interviews, impromptu jam sessions and crowd footage of live music set in a small town surrounded by the now long gone red clay and tobacco shacks of North Carolina.
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
The original Tresor was in many ways the quintessential Berlin club: located in an unrenovated vault beneath a bombed out department store, it opened its doors amidst the general confusion and ecstasy that swept across the city when the wall fell. Its low ceilings, industrial decor and generally unhinged atmosphere created an unprecedented platform not only for techno in Berlin, but also for the scene taking shape across the Atlantic in Detroit.
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
A short educational documentary on early electronic composition and synthesizers.
Punk bands in Korea get invited to biggest hardcore punk festival in Tokyo. This movie shows how one of the loudest and most active punk bands in Asia live and deliver message very closely and pleasantly.
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.
Nou Set Dos. Crepúsculo electrónico
"Electric Mole" is a concert film that documents Sheena Ringo's nationwide "Sugoroku Xstasy" tour in the summer of 2003. It marks the start of Sheena's band, Tokyo Jihen (albeit only as a backing band for Sheena at the time.)
The living legend that is Sir Paul McCartney, returns to headline Glastonbury for a second time, a week after his eightieth birthday celebrations, making him the oldest artist ever to top the Pyramid Stage. As one of the founding members of The Beatles, Paul McCartney is a national treasure and one of our most important British cultural icons. In this headline set, expect much-loved Beatles classics, familiar hits from his solo career and masterpieces from the Wings back catalogue.
Peanuts-kun Walk Through the Stars Tour Final