OT: Movie / Documentary Question
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Throwing it out there, but Sundance film festival is going on right now. This weekend they offer their online screening option.
Not all movies are available, especially the big premiers but there are lots of good options. Take a look.
Sundance usually kills it in their documentaries. All of these are available for screening.
one of my favorite documentaries from Sundance from a while back was three identical strangers.
Not all movies are available, especially the big premiers but there are lots of good options. Take a look.
Sundance usually kills it in their documentaries. All of these are available for screening.
one of my favorite documentaries from Sundance from a while back was three identical strangers.
Not this weekend, but looking forward the the upcoming Little Feat documentary.
Going to try Deliver Me From Nowhere, the making of the Nebraska album by Bruce Springsteen. Finally streaming for free on Disney plus.
Saw the Melania premier last night. Incredible.
I saw that and really liked it. It’s a dark movie about a very difficult time in Springsteen’s life which resulted in the Nebraska album. The lead actor and the guy who portrayed Jon Landau did a great job.
Not in "the theatre" BUT the new Mel Brooks documentary (The 99-Year Old Man) is FANTASTIC!!!
ALSO from 2024: Kings From Queens (3 part RUN DMC documentary) is excellent!
ALSO from 2024: Kings From Queens (3 part RUN DMC documentary) is excellent!
The songs about growing up poor, especially Used Cars really resonate. I wish he had toured solo on the Nebraska album like he did with Devils and Dust (which I saw in the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park sitting directly behind his mother and aunt).
I never got through the entire Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, which I have to try again. Not sure if it was the acting or something else, but I kept losing interest. But Desolation Row popped up recently, and that has reignited by interest in the topic.
I think you will like the Springsteen Bio-pic. There is some cliche stuff about it but I think it does a good job capturing a very difficult time in his evolution as a person. It’s more a personal struggle story than a “rock star” film. As for the Dylan documentary , I saw most of that years ago. The Dylan Bio-pic “A Complete Unknown” is very good imo and captures the early part of Dylan’s rise as a folk singer when he came to NYC in 1960. I’m biased, I’m a very big fan of both Dylan and Springsteen.
Whoops on the title of the Dylan bio-pic! Maybe I watched the wrong one! I'm like a rolling stone!
I liked both. I generally like most Musician/Band biopics. Probably started with me back with the "Behind the Music" days on VH1.
Deliver Me From Nowhere was fantastic. Even on the Springsteen forum, it got lukewarm to good reviews, but not overwhelmingly great reviews. Very well done. I did not think Jeremy Allen White could pull it off, but he did. Very good message of the movie is that it is perfectly OK for grown men to seek help for their depression and mental illness, something Bruce's parents generation did not do.
I don’t know if you noticed in the movie, the house band shown at The Stone Pony that Bruce joins on stage , included singer Jay Buchanan of Rival Sons and guitarist Jake Kizska and bassist Sam Kizska from Greta Van Fleet.
In the theater? The only movies playing nearby that I’m interested to see are Hamnet and Marty Supreme.
No interesting documentaries playing nearby and it’s too cold to venture into NYC to see Mr Nobody Against Putin.
No interesting documentaries playing nearby and it’s too cold to venture into NYC to see Mr Nobody Against Putin.
Ha, ha. Was just having a discussion on this with someone who is 62 years old and was old enough to see the Cats on a Smooth Surface in 1981. Small nitpick for the purists and locals that guy was a huge miss. That lead singer did not look anything like the lead singer at that time.
In the years 1981 and 1982, the band's lineup consisted of Bobby Bandiera on lead guitar and vocals, Harry Filkin on rhythm guitar and vocals, Peter Schulle on keyboards and vocals, John Micco on bass guitar and vocals, Pete Gagen on drums, and Ray Planet on saxophone. Glen Burtnik was in an early iteration of the band too.
From the famous 1982 show at the Ston Pony- that's Bobby Bandiera with the red Rembass that Bruce had in his back pocket on the cover of Born in the USA- REMBASS stood for Remotely Monitored Battlefield Surveillance Systems, a division of CECOM research at Fort Monmouth. Somebody my mother worked with gave Bruce that hat. It was funny to see it on the album cover.
By the time I was of age to go the Pony, Vinnie Danielle was the lead singer.
I remember this when they were filming: