The film focuses on 13 artists being performance women artists, models, butch lesbians and transsexuals who appeared with Antony and the Johnsons. Each artist rotates slowly on a turntable platform, her features blown up and transfigured on a screen behind the Antony Hegarty and her band The Johnsons with their elegant blend of music. Atlas incorporates the 13 personalities in the film and music through candid shots and playful banter to define his picturesque subjects on screen. It was filmed through various Antony and the Johnsons performances starting in 2004 up to the end of the critically acclaimed tour of Europe by Antony and the Johnsons during the autumn of 2006.
Through interviews, filmmaker Andrew Horn traces the history of Twisted Sister from their origins in the bar scene of early 1970s Long Island to their pre-MTV rise as a popular regional, New York-based band in the mid 1970s and early 1980s.
En plus de suivre son parcours musical, le documentaire s'intéresse à l'engagement de Nina Simone en tant que militante pour les droits civiques dans l'Amérique des années 1960 et son départ pour le Liberia à travers des images d'archives, des extraits de concert et des entretiens avec sa famille et ses proches.
The film begins with the Descendents' origins in the neighboring communities of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, California in the late 1970s. Middle school friends Frank Navetta and Dave Nolte start the band in 1977 by writing songs together on guitar. Classmate Bill Stevenson impresses them with his musical talents and becomes their drummer. In 1979 they meet bassist Tony Lombardo in Long Beach and recruit him to the band. Nolte bows out to join his brothers in The Last, and Navetta, Stevenson, and Lombardo record the Descendents' debut single. Stevenson's high school classmate Milo Aukerman joins the band as lead singer, and the new lineup builds a local following through their catchy and melodic songs, energetic live shows, and Aukerman's image as a nerd. They release the Fat EP (1981) and their debut album Milo Goes to College (1982), so named because Aukerman leaves the band to study biology. Stevenson drums in Black Flag for the next few years.
Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales begins with The Wilde Flowers, the archetypal Canterbury scene band. Rare period performance footage, still photos, and recordings are interspersed with contemporary interviews with almost all of the surviving musicians from this era. From The Wilde Flowers the story moves to Soft Machine which initially comprised four ex-members of The Wilde Flowers, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen. When Australian-born Allen was refused re-entry into the United Kingdom in 1967 after a gig in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, Soft Machine elected to continue as a 3-piece band and, at the suggestion of Jimi Hendrix, added a distortion pedal to the organ to make up for the missing guitar. Meanwhile in Paris, Allen formed Gong, with a spacier sound involving early synthesizers and echo units. Daevid was interviewed for this film just weeks before his death from cancer. Although obviously unwell, his sense of humor and playfulness remained forefront. Soft Machine subsequently became a quartet again by adding bassist Hugh Hopper (also ex-The Wilde Flowers). Next Dave Sinclair introduces the band Caravan, consisting of the remaining members of The Wilde Flowers. Bands influenced by the original Canterbury scene began popping up around 1970 all over the world, including Moving Gelatine Plates (France) and Supersister (Netherlands). Their history is described by their main composers, with performance footage and images of their album covers. Next to be featured is Forgas Band Phenomena which came a little later but definitely is Canterbury-influenced.
The film documents Becker's rise to near-stardom, following him from the first time he touched a guitar as a five-year-old to when he was drafted into The David Lee Roth Band as lead guitarist at the age of 19. In 1990, this was considered perhaps the most coveted rock guitar gig on the planet, as Becker would be following in the footsteps of acclaimed guitarists Eddie van Halen and Steve Vai, both of whom played with David Lee Roth as lead guitar player. It was shortly after that Becker was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and given just 3 to 5 years to live. Becker was able to finish the recording of Roth's third full-length studio album A Little Ain't Enough but was unable to make the tour due to his physical decline.
The film explores the early Boston Hardcore music scene from the years 1981 through 1984 and delves deep into the social and communal aspects of that era; the community, culture, straight-edge and DIY (‘do it yourself’) ethic of the time. There are over fifty interviews, never before seen live footage, rare photographs, and dramatizations.
The stand-up material included commentary such as Southern culture, racism, wasting time Googling obscure subjects (such as the box office numbers for Home Alone vs Home Alone 2 and Joe Pesci trivia) and online pornography. He also revisited subjects from his previous stand-up special, Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, including sharing stories about his young cousin Harris.
Aziz Ansari, de "Parks and Recreation", monte sur scène pour partager ses réflexions sans compromis sur la vie adulte, les bébés, le mariage et l'amour à l'ère moderne.
Morrissey : 25 Live est un concert de Morrissey enregistré le 2 mars 2013 au Hollywood High School de Los Angeles, en Californie. Le concert avait pour but de marquer sa carrière solo de 25 ans après l'éclatement des Smiths.
Aziz Ansari, humoriste et star du petit écran ("Parks and Recreation"), partage son opinion sans concession sur l'immigration, les relations et l'industrie alimentaire.
Début 2015, Paul Thomas Anderson rejoint son collaborateur et ami Jonny Greenwood dans son voyage au Rajasthan, au Nord-Ouest de l'Inde, où ils sont accueillis par le Maharaja de Jodhpur qui les autorise à résider au Fort de Mehrangarh pour trois semaines. C'est là que Greenwood enregistre un album avec le compositeur Israélien Shye Ben Tzur, ainsi qu'un groupe de douze musiciens indiens réputés.