There were no complaints, nor was I made to feel out of place. However, with the pool of potential “ actors” limited to one particular classroom of third graders in a quiet suburb of Chicago, our unintentionally diverse cast was of course a non-issue.
As an ethnically Chinese kid, I certainly did not look the part of a Greek prophet from the city of Thebes. When I was in third grade, I once played the part of Tiresias in a school production of Oedipus. Play this list loud.Every time an episode of Star Wars: Andor lands, Fantha Tracks will be giving their responses, and here are our initial gut feelings, deep dives and thoughts on episode six of season one, ‘The Eye’. The last time we did this was in 2014, and to say that the form has produced a number of classics since then would be an understatement. So in honor of Peter Jackson’s Get Back - a new six-episode look back at the Beatles putting together the album Let It Be even as they were beginning to fall apart - we’ve compiled a list of the 70 greatest music documentaries of all time: the concert films, fly-on-the-wall tour chronicles, punk and hip-hop and jazz time capsules, and career assessments of everyone from Amy Winehouse to the Who that have set the standard and stood the test of time.
Not all of them, of course, are created equal.
It’s never been easier to make a music documentary these days. And thanks to new access to archives and updated technology, a whole generation of filmmakers have come up learning the art of docu-portraits and genre breakdowns that run the gamut from sub-subgenres to broad stem-to-stern histories of rock, jazz and country-and-western. A number of documentarians saw the advantage of capturing a number of legendary artists and bands in their heyday and/or once-in-a-lifetime performances - partially for posterity, partially for plain old reportage and partially for the second-hand high of it all. When it comes to historical musical moments, however, there’s nothing like seeing the real thing.
The movies have always loved giving actors the chance to play rock star or impersonate an iconic musician/singer, recreating those famous “Eureka!” studio moments and greatest-hits shows for any number of music biopics.
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