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Orion: Retracing the Would-be Return of the King
Tweet Remember Elvis sightings? The litany of reports in the years after Elvis Presley’s untimely, unsightly death from people who were absolutely, positively sure they’d spotted the King at a diner...
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Orion, Rhymefest Music Documentaries to Premiere at Tribeca
Tweet Orion: The Man Who Would Be King Music films about Orion, the masked singer upon whom Sun Records draped the mantle of a resurrected Elvis Presley after the King’s death, and Grammy- and...
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DOXA
Tweet Where: Vancouver, Canada When: April 30-May 10 What: “DOXA is presented by The Documentary Media Society, a Vancouver based non-profit, charitable society (incorporated in 1998) devoted to...
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Seeyousound
Tweet Where: Turin, Italy When: May 13-17 What: “The first Film Festival in Italy entirely dedicated to music in movies” brings a few dozen music-themed films to the Piedmontese capital, spread across...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Preview: All This and World War I
Tweet Hustlers Convention, a music documentary about Lightnin' Rod of the Last Poets, world premieres at Doc/Fest 2015. Editor’s note: This post has been updated to reflect additions to the Doc/Fest...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest
Tweet When: June 6-10 What: “Doc/Fest is a Film Festival, Industry Session programme and Market place, offering pitching opportunities, controversial discussion panels and in-depth filmmaker...
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Film Fest Catch-up: And the Winners Were …
Tweet Kidd Life: a jury favorite at Turin's Seeyousound music film festival We’ve been remiss lately in keeping up with the award winners at the numerous springtime film festivals that pay attention...
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Orion: The Man in the Rhinestone Mask
Tweet Jimmy Ellis was blessed with a voice uncannily like Elvis’s, and cursed with it too. That dichotomy is the engine driving Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, the latest music documentary from...
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ICYMI Croatia Edition: Endless Possibilities at Music Film Fest Solo Positivo
Tweet After six days beneath a broiling Croatian sun and six nights of starlight screenings, the sixth annual Solo Positivo Film Festival ended in a blaze of glory-bestowal Thursday with The...
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ICYMI: Foo Fighters Music Doc Series Takes 2 Emmys, Aretha Franklin Ups Legal...
Tweet Catching up with what’s going down in music documentary. The show folks, they sure love Dave Grohl. Sonic Highways, the Grohl-directed HBO series tracking the Foo Fighters recording their latest...
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ICYMI: I/O Goes In-Depth on EDM, Orion Goes to the USA
Tweet Bits and bobs from music documentary land. Like any bubbling musico-socio-cultural movement worth its moves, electronic dance music has become a popular topic for music documentary...
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ICYMI: Eagles of Death Metal Doc Canceled at IDFA
Tweet Cinema news inna music documentary style. Redemption of the Devil, the Vice-produced music film about Eagles of Death Metal frontman/wildman Jesse Hughes, has been pulled from the ongoing...
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We See Dead People: Our Favorite Music Films of 2015
Tweet Clockwise from top left: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, A Poem Is a Naked Person, Amy, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King This post has been updated with additional year-end picks. 2015 was a...
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