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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 32 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10.The critics consensus reads, "Woodstock 99 documents the notorious music festival like an unraveling horror film to visceral effect, presenting a flashpoint in cultural nadir while suggesting that it was also a sign of troubles to come."
Initially, Bill Simmons, the creator of HBO’s Music Box series, invited Penny Lane to make a music documentary. Lane chose Kenny G as the subject of the film because he is "a musician who is objectively popular, by way of record sales, but is also hated by the 'critical class'."
(You could walk into this movie knowing nothing about Coltrane and walk out an impassioned convert.)" [9] Glenn Kenny from RogerEbert.com gave the film three and a half out of four stars and stated: "“Chasing Trane” streamlines the story of the jazz saxophonist, but it does so in a way that doesn't feel like cheating. Scheinfeld's approach ...
When HBO renewed Bill Simmons’ “Music Box” documentary series for a second season in December, it wasn’t exactly surprising. Critics, film festival programmers and audiences were ...
Languages. English, French. Bring On the Night is a 1985 documentary film directed by Michael Apted, focusing on the jazz -inspired project and band led by the British musician Sting during the early stages of his solo career and first solo tour. Some of the songs in the film appeared on his debut solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles.
Fire Music is a 2021 documentary film directed by Tom Surgal about free jazz. The documentary focuses on the key innovators associated with the movement, including John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra. Release. An abbreviated rough cut of the film debuted at the New York Film Festival on September ...
The whole lost-tapes school of documentary gives Burstein’s film a personal anecdotal vibrance. We hear Taylor recall the confessional conversations she would have with James Dean late at night ...
C. Calle 54. Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog. The Church of Saint Coltrane. The Cole Nobody Knows. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. The Cry of Jazz.