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Moonage Daydream 2022
Documentary
A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.
The sides of Moonage Daydream
- David Bowie in his own words
- A collage of concerts, films and paintings
- Ziggy Stardust to Berlin and beyond
Good for you if
- you like Bowie's songs loud and woven through the whole film.
- you want a documentary that feels like a trip.
- you like the strange, shape-shifting side of Bowie.
Bad for you if
- two hours and fifteen minutes of collage is too much for you.
- you want a life explained. Bowie's thoughts on art and change come in fragments, with no narrator to sum up.
About: reinvention · art · time
The Velvet Underground 2021
Documentary
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
The sides of The Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed, John Cale and the birth of a band
- Andy Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York
- Split screens full of archive footage
Good for you if
- you love the drone and noise of the Velvet Underground.
- you like Todd Haynes cutting archive footage into split screens.
- you want to be dropped into the New York avant-garde of the sixties.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand experimental films and art-school strangeness.
- you find two hours of interviews and archives too much.
About: art · rebellion · New York
One More Time with Feeling 2016
Documentary
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
The sides of One More Time with Feeling
- Nick Cave recording an album after losing his son
- A studio filmed in black and white
- A family living with grief
Good for you if
- you like watching songs take shape in the studio.
- you like a film that sits quietly with real grief.
- you like stark black and white images.
Bad for you if
- a parent's grief is too much for you.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: grief · creation · fatherhood
Powaqqatsi 1988
Documentary
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
The sides of Powaqqatsi
- Workers of the developing world in slow motion
- A Philip Glass score
- No words at all
Good for you if
- you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.
- you like feeling the scale of human labour across continents.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves forward.
- you need the images explained, and no one says a word.
About: labour · modernity · tradition
Lessons of Darkness 1992
Documentary
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
The sides of Lessons of Darkness
- Kuwait's oil fields burning after the Gulf War
- Firefighters capping the wells
- Werner Herzog filming Earth like another planet
Good for you if
- you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.
- you like images carried by Wagner and Verdi.
- you like Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum. Long shots of burning wells glide by with barely a word.
- you want things explained. Herzog never lays out the war and narrates it like science fiction.
About: war · apocalypse · landscape
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey 2005
Documentary
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of heavy metal culture.
The sides of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
- An anthropologist who grew up on metal
- A family tree of metal subgenres
- Interviews with metal's founders and fans
Good for you if
- you want to finally tell thrash from death metal from black metal.
- you like a fan who studies his own tribe like an anthropologist.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather follow one life than a map of a whole culture.
- you need something happening on screen, not a string of interviews.
About: belonging · identity · outsiders

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul 2005
Documentary
German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop.
The sides of Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
- A German musician with a microphone in Istanbul
- Street musicians, rock bands and arabesque singers
- A portrait of Turkey through its music
Good for you if
- you love discovering music you've never heard, from rock to arabesque.
- you like meeting real musicians in their studios and on the streets.
- you want a relaxed evening wandering Istanbul from rock clubs to street corners.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for Turkish interviews.
- you need a story with characters, not a musical tour.
About: music · the city · identity
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii 1972
Documentary
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
The sides of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
- Pink Floyd playing in an empty Roman amphitheatre
- Long psychedelic pieces like Echoes
- The ruins of Pompeii as a stage
Good for you if
- you like long psychedelic jams played live.
- you like a band filmed among ancient ruins with no audience.
- you like the look of an early 1970s concert film.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and twenty minute songs lose you.
- you want to get to know the people behind the band.
About: music · the past · solitude
Piece by Piece 2024
Documentary
A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.
The sides of Piece by Piece
- Pharrell Williams's life told in LEGO
- A kid from Virginia Beach who hears music in colors
- The making of hits like Happy
Good for you if
- you like hearing how Pharrell built his songs and beats.
- you like a music biography rebuilt brick by brick in LEGO.
- you like the story of a dreamy kid finding his sound.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you roll your eyes at uplifting talk about inspiration and following your dreams.
About: creativity · fame · growing up
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005
Documentary
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
The sides of No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1966
- Greenwich Village folk clubs
- Fans booing when he goes electric
Good for you if
- you want to hear Dylan's songs as they were first played.
- you like the sixties, from the folk scene to the protest years.
- you like a life story told by the people who were there.
Bad for you if
- three and a half hours is too much for you.
- you find black and white footage from the sixties dated.
About: reinvention · fame · the voice of a generation
Until the Light Takes Us 2008
Documentary
Chronicles the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal, a musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics. This is the first film to truly shed light on a movement that has heretofore been shrouded by rumor and obscured by inaccurate and shallow depictions. Featuring exclusive interviews with the musicians themselves, Until the Light Takes Us explores every aspect of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world.
The sides of Until the Light Takes Us
- Norwegian black metal in the early 1990s
- Church burnings and a murder
- Musicians interviewed years later, one of them in prison
Good for you if
- you want to understand where Norwegian black metal came from.
- you're drawn to the true story of the church fires and the killing behind the scene.
- you'd rather hear the musicians themselves than the rumours.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a real murder told by the people involved.
- you want a warm music documentary, not a cold and dark one.
About: subculture · violence · identity · notoriety
Amadeus 1984
Película
Antonio Salieri es el músico más destacado de la corte del Emperador José II de Austria. Entregado completamente a la música, le promete a Dios humildad y castidad si, a cambio, conserva sus extraordinarias dotes musicales. Pero, después de la llegada a la corte de un joven llamado Wolfang Amadeus Mozart, Salieri queda relegado a un segundo plano. Irritado por la pérdida de protagonismo, hará todo lo posible para arruinar la carrera del joven músico. Mientras tanto, Mozart, ajeno a las maquinaciones de Salieri, sorprende a todos con su genialidad como músico, pero también con sus excentricidades.
Las caras de Amadeus
- Un viejo compositor que se confiesa con un sacerdote
- La risa de Mozart en la corte de Viena
- Un rival que reza y desprecia a la vez
Buena para ti si
- te gusta ver cómo la envidia de Salieri lo devora.
- quieres que la música de Mozart sostenga toda la película.
- te gusta la historia de un hombre que ve el genio y no puede alcanzarlo.
Mala para ti si
- te parecen demasiado dos horas y cuarenta para una noche.
- necesitas que pasen cosas, y esta es una película de charla y música.
Temas: la envidia · el genio · la fe · la mediocridad
Pina 2011
Documentary
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
The sides of Pina
- The dancers of Pina Bausch's company
- Dances staged in the streets and hills of Wuppertal
- Wim Wenders filming in 3D
Good for you if
- you like dancers filmed in factories, parks and on a hanging train.
- you like a film carried by music and movement.
- you want to feel what a body can say without words.
Bad for you if
- you need words and a story to stay with a film.
- you need momentum, and long dance pieces lose you.
About: art · grief · the body
The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2006
Documentary
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
The sides of The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- Daniel Johnston's home tapes and drawings
- A songwriter living with manic depression
- Parents caring for their adult son
Good for you if
- you love raw songs recorded on cassette in a basement.
- you want a close portrait of one fragile, gifted man.
- you like a life told through its own tapes and home movies.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch mental illness take hold of someone up close.
- you want a feel-good music story, and you get a hard and tender one.
About: mental illness · art · family
Heima 2007
Documentary
Ethereal post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós play a string of impromptu gigs in their native Iceland after finishing a world tour in 2006. As they travel through the country, the band visits a wide variety of venues, from a large outdoor festival to a coffee shop.
The sides of Heima
- Sigur Rós playing free shows across Iceland
- Gigs in village halls, a coffee shop and outdoors
- Icelandic landscapes between songs
Good for you if
- you love Sigur Rós and slow, soaring music.
- you want Iceland's landscapes on a big screen.
- you like a quiet, unhurried film.
Bad for you if
- you want talk and story, and this is mostly songs and landscapes.
- you won't read subtitles. The band talks in Icelandic between songs.
About: home · community · stillness
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten 2007
Documentary
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.
The sides of Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
- The frontman of the Clash
- Punk in late 1970s Britain
- Friends remembering him around campfires
Good for you if
- you love the Clash and punk.
- you want Joe Strummer's whole life, before and after the band.
- you like a portrait of a man more than a list of hits.
Bad for you if
- two hours is a lot for you for one musician.
- you need momentum. The film keeps stopping at campfires where friends trade memories.
About: punk · rebellion · friendship
The Last Waltz 1978
Documentary
Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and other rock legends.
The sides of The Last Waltz
- The Band's farewell concert in San Francisco
- Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison on one stage
- Backstage interviews filmed by Martin Scorsese
Good for you if
- you like a whole concert of 1970s rock filmed up close.
- you like a concert shot on film by Martin Scorsese, every stage light composed.
- you like the end of an era captured on a single night.
Bad for you if
- you can't get into music films from the 1970s.
- you want the people behind the music more than the music itself.
About: farewell · the road · rock history

Wandering Stars 2019
Documentary
This film follows the making of Nekfeu's 3rd album, between Paris, Japan, Greece and the United States.
The sides of Wandering Stars
- Nekfeu making his third album
- Studios in Japan, Greece and the United States
- A crew of friends around him
Good for you if
- you like watching French rap being written and recorded.
- you want to follow a real artist from Paris to Japan, Greece and the United States.
- you like seeing Nekfeu at work and among friends.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles. Nekfeu and his crew speak French.
- you need momentum, and long studio sessions lose you.
About: creation · friendship · travel
Naqoyqatsi 2002
Documentary
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
The sides of Naqoyqatsi
- A wordless montage of a digital world
- A Philip Glass score with Yo-Yo Ma's cello
- Archive images reworked by computers
Good for you if
- you like letting images wash over you for an hour and a half.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.
- you like the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves forward.
- you want people talking, and nobody speaks here.
About: technology · violence · modern life
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 2019
Documentary
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
The sides of Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- Miles Davis and his trumpet
- Jazz from bebop to fusion
- Musicians and family remembering him
Good for you if
- you want to hear Kind of Blue and the records that changed jazz.
- you like a portrait that shows a genius and his darker side.
- you're curious about racism in America through one musician's life.
Bad for you if
- you can't face drug addiction and abuse of a wife on screen.
- you can't spend two hours admiring a man you wouldn't root for.
About: genius · reinvention · racism