Amazing Grace Sydney Pollack, Alan Eliott Music film sensation of the year! In 1972 the most successful soul singer of her time, Aretha Franklin, returned to her musical roots in a church in Los Angeles and recorded live the music for the most successful gospel album...
New Order: Decades Mike Christie CONCERT MOVIE: POST-PUNK-HEROES WITH 12 SYNTHESIZERS 1978 Joy Division appear in Tony Wilson’s TV show “So it goes”. In 2017 New Order refer to this event in a collaboration with artist Liam Gillick and an ensemble of...
Shayne Stephan Geene FAN SEEKS IDOL AND FINDS MAN In his third film, Stephan Geene, co-founder of the left-wing Berlin theory and art publishing house bbookz, works on his childhood enthusiasm for the pop singer Ricky Shayne in a way that is both artificial and...
Mystify: Michael Hutchence Richard Lowenstein PORTRAIT OF THE INXS-SINGER AS A SHY “ROCK-GOD” Michael Hutchence, the lead singer and songwriter of INXS, was a mixture of contradictions. “Mystify” is an intimate portrait of Rock God, with rare...
Peter vs. Harry Ida Weiss FILM VS. MUSIC VS. BRAATZ VS. RAG Harry Rag, born as Peter Braatz in Solingen, with his band “S.Y.P.H.” from the end of the 70’s a formative figure of Düsseldorf’s punk scene (“Back to Concrete”), then...
Cum On Feel The Noize Jörg Sonntag HARD ROCK AND METALIN THE MIRROR OF GERMAN MUSIC TELEVISION Heavy metal and hard rock have dominated rock music since the late 1960s – a business worth billions, but also lifestyle and passion for countless fans worldwide. The...
