Jennifer Lopez and Shakira‘s halftime performance at the 2020 Super Bowl became one of the most memorable shows in modern history — Sixth best on Rolling Stone‘s all-time ranking. Two years later, J.Lo is reflecting on the massive lead-up to that iconic night through her new documentary, Halftime, out on …
Read More »Summer of Blues: Lost 1969 Blues Festival Doc Surfaces
A music festival, held in 1969, is filmed — bits of it airing on local TV — but then shelved for decades before it’s resurrected for a new film. No, it’s not Summer of Soul. It’s Memphis ’69, a recently completed doc — which starts airing next week — that …
Read More »Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, Cherie Currie Talk Fanny's Influence in New Doc
More than 50 years after their formation, Fanny is getting a documentary: The Right to Rock, out later this year. Directed by Bobbi Jo Hart, the trailer features Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, Cherie Currie, and more discussing the pioneering all-woman band’s impact and legacy. A David Bowie quote flashes across …
Read More »New Lynyrd Skynyrd Doc Shows Plane Crash Footage, Traces Band History
A new documentary promises to tell the full story of one of southern rock’s defining bands, warts and all. The film, Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow, covers a lot of ground: the band’s rise from Jacksonville, Florida, the plane crash that killed vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve …
Read More »'Filmworker': Doc on Kubrick Collaborator Is Case Study of Obsession
There’s being someone’s right-hand man, and then there is Leon Vitali. A strapping young lad who had begun making a name for himself in the early Seventies, this British actor had built up an impressive resumé of theater gigs, supporting parts, cop-show cameos and sitcom ensemble roles – he was …
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