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Blaze
Movie
Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2018 • United States
Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh HamiltonHe was the greatest country singer you’ve (probably) never heard of: a genius, a loser, a philosopher, a drunk, a poet, a rebel, and a ramblin’ man who lived each day of his too-short life on his own ...
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D.O.A.: A Right of Passage
Movie
Directed by Lech Kowalski • 1980 • United States
A groundbreaking documentary about the origins of punk rock, D.O.A.: A RIGHT OF PASSAGE is centered around the Sex Pistols’s 1978 tour of the United States, which ended with the group breaking up. Following the band with handheld cameras through t...
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Movie
Directed by Julien Temple • 2007 • Ireland, United Kingdom
Legendary frontman of the Clash Joe Strummer was one of rock’s most magnetic and complex figures—an electrifying performer who brought an explosive political edge to the punk movement. In this visually dynamic documentary, veteran chroni...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Neo Sora • 2023 • Japan
Starring Ryuichi SakamotoA celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is the swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. As a parting gift, in late 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with on...
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Learning to Live Together: The Return of Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Movie
Directed by Jesse Lauter • 2021 • United States
In 1970, Joe Cocker undertook what became a storied musical experiment—a traveling rock ’n’ roll commune that crisscrossed the country on a private jet. This meteoric tour came and went over a magical two months, and as a one-time-only experience i...
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loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
Movie
Directed by Matthew Galkin and Steven Cantor • 2006 • United States
An intimate, authentically raw portrait of indie legends the Pixies captures their trying, tense, and ultimately triumphant return as one of rock music’s greatest bands. A decade after their turbulent breakup in 1993, the band’s...
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Bad Timing
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1980 • United Kingdom
Starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey KeitelAmid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). W...
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The Magic of Milford Graves
1 season
A rhythm-shattering avant-jazz percussionist and a sui generis martial artist, sculptor, herbalist, and all-around cosmic Renaissance man, the late free-jazz shaman Milford Graves lived a life as liberated and unclassifiable as his music. Including the appropriately kaleidoscopic feature document...
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Lush: A Far from Home Movie
Movie
Directed by Phil King • 2024 • United Kingdom
Starring Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris AclandOne of the defining bands of the shoegaze wave that washed over the indie-rock world in the 1990s, Lush mesmerized with their otherworldly vocals set against a swirling wall of sound. Assembled by fo...
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Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Movie
Directed by John Carluccio • 2019 • United States
Starring Maurice Hines, Debbie Allen, Cheryl DavisThis intimate, emotionally engaging portrait of the charismatic song-and-dance virtuoso Maurice Hines (1943–2023) follows him from his tap-dancing childhood into his late ’70s. Maurice and friend...
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Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
Movie
Directed by Ryan Daly and Will Oldham • 2023 • United States
This visual accompaniment to the 2023 album of the same name by revered indie-folk wizard Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) invites us not only to hear but to watch the music in a new way. Assembled by filmmaker and archivist Rya...
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Music Shorts
1 season
Sound and vision come together in perfect harmony in this dynamic selection of music-driven shorts. Encompassing jazz (THE CRY OF JAZZ, KEEPING TIME), folk (SPROUT WINGS AND FLY), soul (SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY), opera (THE MUSIC OF REGRET), and the unclassifiable genre unto herself that is Björk ...
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Maestro
Movie
Directed by Josell Ramos • 2003 • United States
Starring Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie KnucklesThe origins of New York City’s legendary underground dance-club culture are explored in this kinetic cult documentary—a vivid chronicle of a scene that became an oasis for the city’s queer and B...
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Keeping Time
Movie
Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States
The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...
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The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film
Movie
Directed by Wayne Coyne and Blake Studdard • 2022 • United States
Starring Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Jacob IngallsThis blissful concert documentary tells the story behind an ingenious spectacle devised by psych-roch legends the Flaming Lips in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the Space Bubbl...
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Milford Graves Full Mantis
Movie
Directed by Jake Meginsky with Neil Young • 2018 • United States
Starring Milford GravesThis portrait of renowned percussionist and founding pioneer of avant-garde jazz Milford Graves finds him exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. The film draws the viewer through th...
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Fire Music
Movie
Directed by Tom Surgal • 2021 • United States
Starring John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun RaAlthough the free-jazz movement of the 1960s and ’70s was met with heated controversy, its pioneers—brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane—are toda...
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Ornette: Made in America
Movie
Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1985 • United States
Starring Ornette ColemanThis freewheeling documentary captures Ornette Coleman’s evolution over three decades. Documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music-video-style segments ever made chronicle his boyhood in segregated T...
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Festival
Movie + 9 extras
Directed by Murray Lerner • 1967 • United States
Before WOODSTOCK and MONTEREY POP, there was FESTIVAL. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bo...
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Space Is the Place
Movie
Directed by John Coney • 1974 • United States
Starring Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond JohnsonAvant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social comment...
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Quadrophenia
Movie + 6 extras
Directed by Franc Roddam • 1979 • United Kingdom
Starring Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, StingThe Who’s classic rock opera “Quadrophenia” was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of early-1960s London. Our antihero is Jimmy (Phi...
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Buena Vista Social Club
Movie + 19 extras
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1999 • Germany, United States
Traveling from the streets of Havana to the stage of Carnegie Hall, this revelatory documentary captures a forgotten generation of Cuba’s brightest musical talents as they enjoy an unexpected encounter with world fame. The veteran vocalists...
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Original Cast Album: “Company”
Movie + 6 extras
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1970 • United States
Starring Stephen Sondheim, Elaine Stritch, Donna McKechnieThis legendary, long-unavailable documentary from Direct Cinema pioneer D. A. Pennebaker captures the behind-the-scenes drama that went into the making of a classic Broadway recording. ...