Look forward to five days of sex and docs and rock n' roll with this behind the scenes look at your music idols.
Grandma Lo-Fi: The Basement Tapes Of Sigríður Níelsdóttir and Heima
All Hail The Beat
(Country: United States; Year: 2012; Director: Nelson George)
Marvin Gaye used it to craft Sexual Healing. Its affordability turned a generation of kids around the world into pioneering musicians, and the genres of house, techno and electro wouldn’t exist without it. Yet most of the producers who use its sound have never seen the Roland TR-808 drum machine...
Buena Vista Social Club
(Country: Cuba; Year: 1999; Director: Wim Wenders; Stars: Luis Barzaga, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder, Julio Alberto Fernndez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Carlos Gonzlez, Rubn Gonzlez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo)
Documentary about the Cuban stars who went on to become an international phenomenon.
Chopin Saved My Life
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: James Kent)
Paul, whose memory it restored after brain surgery, and Momoka, who used it to inspire his community after their town was destroyed by the Japanese tsunami of March 2011, celebrate Chopin’s Ballade Number One.
From the Sea To The Land Beyond
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Penny Woolcock)
Documentary about Britain's coastline.
Glastopia
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Julien Temple)
A spiritual Utopian vision on the fields of Shangri La, Arcadia, the Unfair Ground, Strummerville, Block 9 and the Common, at Glastonbury.
Searching For Sugar Man and Buena Vista Social Club
Heima
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2007; Director: Dean DeBlois; Stars: Sigur Ros),
Official Site
The most original and successful Icelandic band travels the country giving free concerts.
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
(Country: UK, United States; Year: 2012; Director: Jesse Vile; Stars: Jason Becker)
The story of the brilliant rock guitarist who didn't let his increasing immobilisation by motor neurone disease stop him from writing songs, entertaining his fans, or seducing beautiful women.
The Last Waltz
(Year: 1978; Director: Martin Scorsese; Writer: Mardik Martin; Stars: The Band, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John),
Official Site
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
Lost & Sound
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Lindsey Dryden)
The interwoven stories of a music reviewer, a cellist and pianist, and a dancer who have all had to find new ways of experiencing the music they love after becoming deaf.
The Miners' Hymns
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Bill Morrison; Writer: Bill Morrison)
Experimental tribute to a long-gone era of UK working-class life.
The Punk Syndrome (Kovasikajuttu)
(Country: Finland; Year: 2012; Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen, JP Passi)
A documentary charting the rise to fame of a Finnish punk group whose members all have learning difficulties.
Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me?
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Matt O'Casey; Stars: Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon)
The making of the rock opera Quadrophenia.
Searching For Sugar Man (Searching For Sugarman)
(Country: Sweden, UK, Finland; Year: 2012; Director: Malik Bendjelloul; Writer: Malik Bendjelloul, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Craig Bartholomew Strydom; Stars: Sixto Rodriguez)
The true story of a brilliant yet forgotten musician and the revolutionaries he inspired on another continent.
