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Title: John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
Director: Alan Byron
Year: 2011
Country of Production: UK
Genre: Dockumentary
Cast: The Beatles, Cynthia Lennon, Julian Lennon, Yoko Ono, etc
Language: English
Runtime: 01:22:52
 

The story of this amazingly talented cornerstone of the Beatles unfolds in an incredible documentary. Featuring interviews with those closest to him, including wives Cynthia and Yoko Ono, son Julian and more, you get a firsthand accounting of how it all started, how it went right, how it went wrong and John's solo journey into advocacy for world peace.

Review: I have a great deal of difficulty in understanding why people continue to honor one of the lowest of the low. This is a man who came from a family dependent on the English Dole, their version of America's Welfare System. So what does this guy do after amassing a fortune and when faced with a heavy British tax burden? He flees to the country he constantly berated, America and forced himself to live in our "tyrannical and oppressive" society so that he could keep more of his income as our tax rates were a fraction of those in Great Britain. Hell, the guy fought for years in court just to allow himself (for fake reasons), admittance to this country after being banned for a long term stay over drug problems of his own making. The real reason? MONEY.
The man was a tremendous song writer, no doubt about it. I enjoyed and continue to enjoy much of his music. I thought his final two albums were absolutely dreadful and not the "re-births" that the liberal media types made them out to be.
The guy had a socialist front that was false and communist ideologies which he probably believed in as long as they didn't directly effect him. He married a talentless groupie whose claim to be an artist existed only in her own mind. Looking at what she managed to do with Mr. Lennons remaining fortune did show that she had some investment acumen, especially in real estate and turned Mr. Lennons declining fortune into quite an impressive amount of wealth, none of which her late husband got to see.
For me John Lennon died after his first studio album following the breakup of the Beatles. Mr. Champmans rather impressive shot grouping merely killed the remaining husk.
Instead of spending your money in some sort of worshiping of a deeply troubled and mostly despicable man, why don't you donate the money to some worthwhile cause that you seem to associate John Lennon with. For me that would be in the form of purchasing a Rickenbacker guitar of the type that Mr. Lennon never managed to master. Wanna donate to "peace"? Send some money to UNICEF. But for goodness sake, stop with the worship of this treasonous, immoral and self destructive dead man. If you really want to experience the "real" John Lennon as created by the music industry and by his and his bandmates talent, buy a complete box set of his musical works. That in essence was all he was. One of two of the greatest pair of songwriters to ever walk the earth with an emphasis on the word "pair". Look at what Mr. Lennon did by himself and what Mr. McCartney continues to do by himself and compare it to what they accomplished as a pair. When the Beatles broke up or actually shortly prior to that when the two old friends grew apart and stopped working together as a team, the quality of the music they produced dropped off incredibly. They are apart merely shells of what they were together.
And for goodness sake, take reality in hand and realize that this man was nothing more and nothing less than a musician, a performer. Certainly nothing to worship unless you truly think highly of a failed parent, an anti personal freedom "fighter" and a drug abusing drunkard. If Chapman wouldn't have shot him to death he probably would have gone the way of his best friend and drinking buddy, Harry Nillson whose creative career died just around the same time as John Lennons. It just took his liver another 30 years to catch up.
Grow up people, there are real people out there worth admiring. Enjoy the mans music and quit with the false hero worship B.S. This man was in no way a hero. He claimed to be a socialist but no one would have ever heard of him if it weren't for his supposedly hated capitalism. Aak hia oldest child how great a person he was if you want a genuine take on the man. They barely knew each other and Mr. Lennon to my knowledge never even saw his eldest son after hitching up with that skank groupie/prostitue, Yoko Ono. Ask his first wife whose very existance he intially tried to hide from the public during the Beatles early years just how great a husband the man truly was. How much did he provide for her after their split? About the same amount he provided for me...nothing.
It is long past the time to forget about this man other than by listening to and enjoying the majority of the music he made. Anything other than that of a seemingly positive nature was pure hype made up by marketing executives and a fawning liberal media.

Title: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Language: English
Runtime: 01:29:21
 

Expanding on footage of Monk’s 1967 tour shot by Christian Blackwood, Charlotte Zwering (Gimme Shelter) has created the definitive filmic portrait of the master bop pianist-composer. This captivating DVD digs deeper into the life of the famously eccentric pianist-composer than the Ken Burns’s tepid coffeetable documentary Jazz ever thought to.

A few shades different than the Burns film’s monosyllabic, near-silent weirdo, Straight, No Chaser fleshes out Monk’s character considerably – from his harmonic theories to his use of quarter – tones (produced by hitting two adjacent piano keys simultaneously and occasionally even striking the boards with his entire forearm or his foot) to his mysterious relationship with his patron, baroness Nica de Koenigswarter.
“Pannonica,” a lyrical paean to her, is included on the soundtrack. Monk’s music, naturally, is at the center of this canny portrait, giving fans cause to rejoice since most of the movie’s performances had been previously unavailable in any form.
The more interesting excavations include footage of his near-forgotten 1967 octet and rare recordings of club performances and rehearsa

Title: Before the Music Dies
Director: Andrew Shapter
Produced by     Joel Rasmussen
Starring     Forest Whitaker (narrator)
                  Doyle Bramhall II
               Erykah Badu
               Eric Clapton
               Elvis Costello
               Branford Marsalis
                   Dave Matthews
               Billy Preston
Year: 2006
Country of Production: USA
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Runtime: 01:32:12

Before the Music Dies (B4MD) is a 2006 U.S. documentary film that criticizes the American music industry and the increasing commercialization of the art of music over the past thirty years. The film features interviews and performances from such musicians and groups as Doyle Bramhall II, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Branford Marsalis, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and My Morning Jacket. It was directed by Andrew Shapter, produced by Joel Rasmussen, and co-written by Shapter and Rasmussen. The film premiered on March 12, 2006 at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas.

Title: Johnny Cash: An Anthology Of The Man In Black
Director: Al Greenfield
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Runtime: 01:30:00
 

Johnny Cash is one of the most imposing and influential figures in the history of music. Emotional and real, his deep baritone voice and percussive guitar style created a bridge among various genres of music and earned him induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Title: Beatles. The Journey / Битлз. Путешествие
Director: Dennis Pugsley
Year: 2003
Genre: Rockumentary
Language: English
Runtime: 01:23:00

Charting the entire career of The Beatles, this documentary draws on rare archive footage to tell the fascinating tale of this revolutionary English band. All four Beatles are extensively interviewed throughout, offering compelling insights into the men behind the music, as well as their thoughts on important international incidents which gives THE JOURNEY a vital sense of context.

Title: Punk in Africa / Панк в Африке
Directors: Keith Jones, Deon Maas
Year: 2012
Country of Production: South Africa
Genre: Documentary, music
Starring: Paulo Chibanga, Michael Fleck, Ivan Kadey
Language: English
Runtime: 01:21:06
 

Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Бритни Спирс представила долгожданный документальный фильм “I Am Britney Jean”. Его премьера состоялась на американском телеканале “E!” в воскресенье (22 декабря).

Год выпуска: 2015
Страна: Великобритания
Производство: BBC
Жанр: Документальный, биография, музыка
Продолжительность: 01:11:30
Перевод: Профессиональный (многоголосый закадровый) | Первый канал
Оригинальная аудиодорожка: Английский
Режиссёр: Киран Эванс
В ролях: Дэвид Гилмор и др.
Описание: В документальном фильме британский композитор, гитарист, вокалист и один из лидеров легендарной группы «Pink Floyd» Дэвид Гилмор рассказывает о детстве, семейной жизни, начале карьеры и процессе создания своего четвёртого сольного альбома «Rattle That Lock».

Жанр: музика, біографія
Країна: США, Великобретанія, Японія
Режисер: Мартін Скорсезе / Martin Scorsese
У ролях: Боб Дилан, Б.Дж. Рольфцен, Дик Кангас, Лайам Клэнси, Тони Гловер, Пол Нельсон, Аллен Гинсберг, Дэйв Ван, Ронк, Мария Малдур, Джон Коэн
Тривалість: 03:28:15
Сюжет / опис фільму:
Хроніка унікальних інтерв"ю та записів концертів Боба Ділана між 1961 та 1966 коли відбулось його дивне перетворення від співака фолку, до протестуючого артиста і далі до "голосу покоління" та рок зірки зібране режисером Мартіном Скорсезе

В фильме показаны пять лет из жизни Дилана — от его прибытия в Нью-Йорк в январе 1961-го до легендарной мотоциклетной аварии в июле 1966-го.

Документальный фильм, посвящённый жизни и творчеству Боба Дилана - одного из самых значительных музыкантов рок-музыки. Дилан - личность полулегендарная, в расцвет своего творчества почти не давал интервью, а после мотоциклетной аварии вообще прекратил концертные выступления на несколько лет. Тем не менее влияние на рок-музыку Дилан оказал огромное - его песни использовали в своём репертуаре многие известные музыканты, в числе которых Джимми Хендрикс, группа Кинкс, Guns'nRoses и многие другие. Под влиянием его творчества были и отечественные рокеры: Борис Гребенщиков, Майк Науменко и др.

В картине использованы редкие записи концертов музыканта и интервью с ним и его коллегами по цеху - американскими фолк-музыкантами - а также воротилами музыкального бизнеса 1950-1960-х гг. и разочарованными творческими поисками кумира поклонниками Дилана.

Режиссёр картины - лауреат каннской пальмовой ветви и премии "Оскар" - Мартин Скорсезе. По его признанию, во время работы над фильмом сознательно не встречался с героем проекта, чтобы не развеять сложившийся в своём сознании образ легенды.
 

Genre: documentary, biography
Country: Canada, USA, UK

Director: Malcolm Clarke
Writers: Malcolm Clarke, Carl Freed

Storyline:
The Lady In Number 6 is one of the most inspirational and uplifting stories of the year. 109 year old, Alice Herz Sommer, the world's oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor shares her story on how to achieve a long and happy life. She discussed the importance of music, laughter and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.

Runtime: 00:38:15

language: english