Subgenre Sampler
Music: 1385 Films to Buy & Rent
Tim Minchin - So Live (2007)
- Ivory–thumping musical comedian Tim Minchin brings his glam/camp version of rock standup to the live stage. Mixing the political and the deeply…
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Running Down a Dream (2007)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Peter Bogdanovich's exhaustive chronicle of the enormously successful pop/rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, from their inception as…
Tom Waits - Under Review 1971-1982 (2007)
- Feat. Tom Waits
- Music doco chronicling the career of singer–songwriter Tom Waits, containing rarely seen interviews with the man himself, hit songs and rare…
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz…
- Uber–comedy scribe Judd Apatow sends up the recent spate of musical biopics, with John C. Reilly posing as the film's titular, hard livin' rock…
War / Dance (War Dance) (2007)
- Life–affirming Oscar–nominated doco investigates the lives of a group of war–torn Ugandan child refugees on their path towards…
Words from the City (2007)
- Dir. Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham
- Documentary on contemporary Australian hip–hop, exploring fresh ground through its focus on the poetics of the art–form and its place in…
Young @ Heart (Young at Heart) (2007)
- Dir. Stephen Walker
- A stirring, crowd–pleasing music doco for ages 9 to 99 that introduces a spritely senior citizen choir known as 'Young @ Heart' who are…
Acquired Taste (2006)
- Trailblazing Sub Pop Records showcase 25 of their most popular and revolutionary acts in this music video retrospective.
Tracklisting: The Shins,…
Air Guitar Nation (2006)
- Dir. Alexandra Lipsitz
- Sublime documentary on a ridiculous subject, this follows the fortunes of two Americans at the World "Air Guitar" Championships in Finland, in which…
Altered by Elvis (2006)
- Dir. Tiffany Bartok, Jayce Bartok
- Heartfelt documentary exploring the myriad of ways that Elvis Presley has affected people's lives, going down the rabbit warrens of American pop…