A grimly compelling highlight is the footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen lolling in bed like the anti-John-and-Yoko.Two bands for the price of one: The Dandy Warhols take the fast train to fame and adulation while their brothers-in-psychedelia, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, languish in semi-obscurity, their integrity intact, their sanity perhaps less so. Burning guitars, big suits, meeting the Beatles — the concert films and rockumentaries that stand head and shoulders above the rest,The movies started flirting with what would be called “rock & roll” from the very beginning, slapping Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” onto a scene in the juvenile-delinquent drama.So we’ve compiled the 40 greatest rock documentaries, or “rockumentaries,” of all time — the concert films, fly-on-the-wall tour chronicles, artist portraits and cinematic punk and hip-hop cultural surveys that have set the standard and still stand out. At one point, the band has a meeting and questions whether they even want to proceed with the documentary. Imagine Documentaries president Justin Wilkes added, Robbie and The Band are the stuff of rock n’ roll mythology. Out of the chaos, a great album (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and a revealing film emerged.Michel Gondry documents the on-and-off-stage sights of a 2004 Bed-Stuy bash thrown by Chappelle, who bussed in members of the public from his home town of Dayton, Ohio. On the Ropes (2011), about a rivalry between a boxing gym and martial arts school. New Documentaries: Gordon Lightfoot, The Band, and Flannery O’Connor. In the midst of the inventive and influential Blonde Ambition tour, he finds a self-possessed genius who is a magnet for controversy, as well as for other stars: Warren Beatty announces that,Available for everyone, funded by readers,Anna Calvi, Neil Tennant, Nadine Shah, Wayne Coyne, Nitin Sawhney and Anna Meredith pick their top five music movies,Having gone straight from drama school to starring opposite a childhood idol, Viveik Kalra has had a dream start. We rate the best films on the music scene down the decades, from Bob Dylan to Blur, Anvil to Amy Winehouse.Charming Belgian TV presenter Marcel Vanthilt tries to get to grips with the New York rap scene.

Crashing on the scene as Bob Dylan's anonymous-but-not-for-long backup band on his controversial and thrilling electrified tours of 1965-66, the group emerged fully formed, capable of both intense and experimentalist noise and tight, basic rock and roll.The gems here are the tales of Dominique Bourgeois, Robertson's ex-wife, a French-Canadian journalist who met him in Paris while on tour with Dylan in 1966, and who then lived with him during the making of The Band's classic records. Explaining his resilience, he says: “No one else has got this far, and failed.”,Alongside Some Kind of Monster and DiG!, this is another slice of cringingly frank mid-noughties verité, the key difference being that the group in question, a Canadian metal outfit, came within sniffing distance of fame without ever quite making it big. The documentary also shows the band’s whirlwind trip to New York City for the 2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the band’s first appearance in the event. Here are the 37 best music documentaries of the past 50 years. A reunion tour provides a near-as-dammit real-life equivalent to.Penelope Spheeris directed the first film about the American response to punk, with interviews and performances from Circle Jerks, X, Black Flag and Germs, the menace of the latter tempered by dumpy frontman Darby Crash, known to cover himself with peanut butter and dive through broken glass to disguise the fact that his band couldn’t play. Yet in his refusal to sell out, Lawrence is an enduring symbol of artistic purity. Here, the 21-year-old star of Blinded By The Light talks PlayStation, Bruce Springsteen and Pakistani role models,Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding star in the yuletide release, which is scripted by and co-stars Thompson, with Paul Feig as director,An 80s Asian-British channels Bruce Springsteen in Gurinder Chadha’s buoyant but uneven crowd-pleaser.© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians,Viveik Kalra: ‘I feel represented, like finally there’s a part of me on the screen’,Last Christmas: first trailer for Emma Thompson romcom featuring the music of George Michael,Blinded by the Light review – growing up with the Boss.Jeremy Renner, Johnny Depp, Bradley Walsh: which is the best actor-turned-singer?DA Pennebaker: restless, brilliant film-maker plugged into the 1960s zeitgeist,'It felt like a wonderful dream' – DA Pennebaker on making Monterey Pop,I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.Actors playing nightmarish versions of themselves in cinema - ranked!Every Angelie Jolie film performance - ranked!The best and the worst Jennifer Lopez films - ranked!Robert Redford's greatest screen roles - ranked!Biopics trashed by families, friends and fans - ranked!Purr evil: cats in movies with hidden agendas - ranked!Movies that have grossed more than $1bn - ranked!The 10 best movie shark performances - ranked!From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked!James Bond on film – 007's best and worst movies - ranked!Planet of the Apes - the best and worst of the movies - ranked!The 20 best music documentaries - ranked!The weirdest Brits performances - ranked!Game of Thrones - every episode - ranked!Oscar nominees - the weirdest ever - ranked!Oscar snubs - the 20 greatest ever - ranked!The biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs ever - ranked!Super Bowl half-time shows - the 10 greatest - ranked!From Niall Horan's toast to Russell Crowe’s jockstrap: celebrity auction items - ranked!Every one of Madonna's 78 singles - ranked!David Byrne – (almost) all of his albums - ranked!Miles Davis's 20 greatest albums – ranked!Every Mercury prize-winning album - ranked!The Rolling Stones – every album - ranked!Barry Manilow – all his greatest songs - ranked!From Drake to Wet Wet Wet: songs with 10 weeks at No 1 - ranked!From MC5 to Jeff Mills: the greatest Detroit tracks ever - ranked!Giorgio Moroder's 20 greatest songs - ranked!The best songs from teen movies - ranked!The greatest banned songs of all time - ranked!The greatest ever female rap tracks - ranked!The greatest pop music dance crazes - ranked!The greatest Scottish indie bands - ranked!Quincy Jones's greatest ever moments - ranked.