The Oscar nominated US box office sensation, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM is a celebration of the unknown voices behind music's most recognisable hits.
Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr, during the 1968 Democratic and Republican national conventions. Live and unscripted, they kept viewers riveted with their rancorous disagreements about politics, God and sex. Ratings for ABC News sky-rocketed; and a new era in public discourse was born.
The Oscar nominated US box office sensation, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM is a celebration of the unknown voices behind music's most recognisable hits.
It is an epic story. That which gave it life nearly killed it more than once. Innocence naked innocence good and evil light and dark black and white. In Memphis in the 60s people who couldn't dine together joined together to make music soul music at a place called Stax. Contains the documentary - Respect Yourself and The Stax Volt Revue: Live In Norway 1967 featuring Booker T & The M.G's The Mar-Keys Arthur Conley Eddie Floyd Sam & Dave and Otis Redding.
The Hillbilly Shakespeare This fascinating documentary offers a look at the life of legendary performer Hank Williams. Stricken with drugs and drink Williams died at age 29 after transforming the country genre beyond all recognition. Although he didn't leave behind much material (an estimated 88 songs were recorded in his lifetime) it seemed like everything Hank touched turned to musical gold including such classic tracks as ""I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry "" ""Your Cheatin' Hea
The Cool School is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process. The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery which groomed the LA art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of competitive often brilliant artists including Ed Kienholz Ed Ruscha Craig Kauffman Wallace Berman Ed Moses and Robert Irwin. The Ferus also served as launching point for New York imports Andy Warhol (hosting his first Soup Can show) Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein as well as leading to the first Pop Art show and Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective. What was lost and gained is tied up in a complex web of egos passions money and art. This is how L.A. came of age.
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