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Tag: rock docs

festivals, reactions, TIFF

UNDERPLAYED plays TIFF 2020

Breaking barriers, one mix at a time.

Posted on September 16, 2020September 15, 2020
reviews

BEASTIE BOYS STORY

Recounts, rhymes, reflections, from two-thirds of an iconic trio.

Posted on April 26, 2020April 26, 2020
reviews

Whitney

If you can’t understand where you fit in with your own community, or if you have to deny your very being, no amount of applause will fulfill you

Posted on July 13, 2018September 22, 2019
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CONTEMPORARY COLOR plays Hot Docs 2016

Sit right down and wait for the gift of sound and vision.

Posted on May 4, 2016May 14, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

STRIKE A POSE plays Hot Docs 2016

Twenty five years after stuggling to express themselves, six men have lived to tell.

Posted on April 30, 2016May 3, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK plays Hot Docs 2015

Let’s forget about the myth for a moment and learn about the man.

Posted on April 27, 2015April 30, 2015
hot docs, trailers

The Other Woman: Trailer for WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?

Dim the lights and turn the stereo up.

Posted on April 22, 2015April 25, 2015
reactions

Welcome to The Church of Rock & Roll: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM

Bless me father, for I have sinned…

Posted on January 22, 2014January 28, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

MUSCLE SHOALS plays Hot Docs 2013

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers

And they’ve been known to pick a song or two

Lord they get me off so much

They pick me up when I’m feeling blue

Posted on May 5, 2013May 9, 2013
festivals, hot docs, reactions

PUSSY RIOT – A PUNK PRAYER plays Hot Docs 2013

Brimming with immediacy, this film gives audiences a peek under the balaclava at the new face of Russian revolution.

Posted on May 3, 2013May 7, 2013
festivals, hot docs, reactions

MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS plays Hot Docs 2013

They say that if you can’t do it, fake it. That’s seldom been more evident than this film about one of rock’s hottest bands…where the idea goes to painful – but delightful – new lengths.

Posted on April 29, 2013May 1, 2013
reviews

SOUND CITY

A new documentary pays homage to the spot bands like Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana, and Tom Petty recorded some of the greatest albums and songs of all time.

Posted on February 17, 2013February 22, 2013

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