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July 28, 2006
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| Critic's Choice: Play It Loud: Rockdocs 2006 |
| By BEN SISARIO (NY Times) |
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| We are accustomed to the sight of rock 'n' roll's onstage glory: the
lights, the arched-back guitar solos, the crowds thrusting fists in the
air. But it can still be jarring to encounter rock stars away from the
limelight, caught in all their ordinary, awkward, limited-vocabulary
humanity. This nine-day, nine-film series of documentaries, presented
by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, offers both scenes. "Glastonbury," by Julien Temple, stitches together film from every
Glastonbury Festival since 1971, capturing the almost-annual gathering
in southwestern England that regularly draws more than 100,000 roaring,
muddy fans and, for a moment, elevates bands to the level of
mass-culture heroes. David Kleiler Jr. and Jeff Iwanicki¹s "Not a
Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story" and Steven Cantor and Matthew
Galkin¹s "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," right, focus on the
smaller but more poignant dramas of middle-aged rockers apprehensively
embarking on reunion tours. Other films in the series include "Between
the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea," Romuald Karmakar's look at the
European electronic dance scene; "Everyone Stares: The Police Inside
Out," an assemblage of Super 8 footage of the Police by Stewart
Copeland, its drummer, whose camera recorded sparsely attended
promotional appearances as well as the genesis of the band¹s songs; and
Keven McAlester's "You¹re Gonna Miss Me," about Roky Erickson, the
damaged Texan prince of psychedelic rock. (Wednesday through Aug. 10.
Full schedule: filmlinc.com. Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, 212-875-5600; $10.) |
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