The DOC NYC film festival is running this month in New York, featuring a huge program of documentaries from around the world. This year's festival is especially strong in films about music; here are three of the most notable ones.
'The Friend', which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, seems to be so moving that Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, Robert Plant, decided not only to licence the songs but give the producers a steep discount.
The new documentaries on Leonard Cohen, T. Rex’s Marc Bolan, Lil Baby, Detroit techno, and cult rapper the D.O.C. will have their premieres at the festival.
The second pandemic year of 2021 featured a wide variety of fantastic music documentaries. Some gave us better understandings of artists we've known for a long time, while others re-contextualized great performances in a new light. Here's the 20 best of the year.
South by Southwest wrapped a couple weeks ago and while it used to be known primarily as a music festival, the film festival program this year featured a long list of music documentaries with two in particular standing out from the rest.
Today, short films have taken a different shape by building its own audience and market, creating its own stronghold in every major studio, and serving as an important currency for aspiring filmmakers to showcase their talents.
If there’s any highly anticipated annual occasion that's of the same caliber as the holiday season, it would undoubtedly be film festival season; celebrated not just by the media and entertainment industry but also by film fanatics across the globe.
Just about every major national and regional film festival in the U.S. has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but, the Lighthouse International Film Festival will be the first to segue into a fully drive-in format.
YouTube is set to organize a free film festival that will also benefit the WHO Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund and feature content from many of the major international film festivals.
An Updated Version of Dandy Warhols/Brian Jonestown Massacre Doc ‘Dig!’ to Premiere At Sundance 2024
Two decades after Dig! had its premiere, a new expanded version of the documentary will premiere at Sundance 2024 with an extra 40 minutes of footage.
Like most years, the Philadelphia Film Festival was held at the end of October. Unlike most years, they held a series of drive-in screeners and an online streaming platform. Here's our thoughts on some of the fest's most notable films.
Since 2011, Philip Glass' 'Days and Nights Festival' has brought together luminaries and pioneers together from across the arts, and now they've launched a streaming portal designed to create real income for the artists involved.
The uncertainty and painful longing we have been struggling with during these unprecedented times have been powerfully articulated through Kay Niuyue Zhang’s short film 'Mother in the Mist.'
This year's South by Southwest Film Festival has offered plenty of noteworthy music films, from the likes of Demi Lovato, Tom Petty, the Foo Fighters, and Charli XCX.
The annual DOC NYC Festival wrapped up in New York City on Thursday, here's three of the best music documentaries from the festival.
'Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill' is set to premiere at the 2022 DOC NYC festival, following the little-known but well-loved singer-songwriter.
Do you how much I missed movies on the big screen, and also film festivals, after three months of the pandemic? I drove over an hour, to a destination in a state I don't live in, on a Tuesday night, to what's believed to be the world's first drive-in film festival.
The Netherlands music and avant-garde festival to stream for free on November 13-15, 2020, and will keep with its usual forward-looking concept.
Two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu announced he is restoring the first film of his "death trilogy", 'Amores Perros'," and will be screening it at the Morelia Film Festival.
This year's Sundance Film Festival largely took place virtually, and in addition to its huge variety of feature films, this year's program featured lots of memorable documentaries. Here's 10 of the best.
Based in Athens, Georgia, Elephant 6 Recording Co. was a label/collective of musicians that included Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples In Stereo, Elf Power, and more.
The annual Tribeca Festival wrapped up on Sunday, both in New York and virtually, and as usual, the film contained a wide selection of music documentaries. Here are reviews of four of the most notable ones.
The new 7-episode miniseries titled 'Ouverture of Something that Never Ended,' will premiere at GucciFest, their fashion and film festival.
Recently announced, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival will include music documentaries on Brian Eno, Lollapalooza, Luther Vandross, Devo, and how rap lyrics have played a role in court cases.