Films About Various Artists

(Updated if I have reviews ... and thx to all mentions!)

Some great films about "artists" and their work! Posted it under this section because not all of these are about music!

Films about rock musicians also count here, don't they?

I loved "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" and "Beware of Mr. Baker" (Ginger Baker).

your listing of Peter Greenaway's film reminded me that I was going to mention...

Nightwatching: (Rembrandt)

Good topic.

I wonder how many are on YouTube.

My biggest issue with the majority of films, is that over here in the Pacific Northwest, the chance of catching these things is ridiculously low, and Amazon does not have at least half to two thirds of those films, and I would have to "subscribe" to 10 more film services to see handful of films.

The "internationalization" of a "world economy" was just a term that did not mean much ... many of the European folks don't seem to care of their film sells in America at all, and you will find many Italian, Spanish, French, German and Eastern European films not seen or found over here, other than the film Festivals at the unlikeliest and weirdest places. The Portland Film Festival refuses to really show the big things in many other places, and instead continues to fill out their lineup with English films, which always sell out ... while the Italian and Spanish films (other than Almodovar ... already very passe!) are barely getting half an audience. Some French films do OK, but none that well. And of course, trying to find a Peter Greenaway film? Good luck ... the Festival would not even consider it and suggest that the film was too expensive to bring about!

I will start TODAY on looking for the stuff that is missing on my list that was added by some folks that obviously watch a lot of these things. Hopefully I can add these to my listings ... already over 600 films, but finding things, even on Amazon, these days is tough ... it's buried under a lot of crap, and other listings mixed in to make it look like a bigger and better listing ... with several things showing up in 10 places!

I wish ... I really do ... but here in Portland/Vancouver film watching is more of a joke than it is  meaningful, and I can tell you that 80% of the stuff reviewed that I have was taken off videos off a couple of stores that I scavenged in the 90's and in the 00's. But those stores are gone. And so will a lot of film, sadly enough!

It's more a documentary than a movie, but I think "Searching for Sugar Man" is amazing

Hi,

I guess I have to see these to find out why PP posted this in this particular thread. Richard Branson is one of the biggest thieves in the history of music ... a perfect show of how the rich rip off everyone else in England.

But .... JA ... now you know why I have such a respect for that SF scene. The stuff that you see in this special, shows how progressive and out of this world, JA was ... he goes that way, he goes the other way ... and they liked it best when everyone went everywhere ... that ought to sat some FEAR into 95% of all "progressive" wanna bees.

"Artists" ... are people that changed the moods, and the story, of what the art form was. And they did it their way, and are remembered for it. The list of the films, I have, is pretty much about that and the individuality that those folks had to have to be able to do what they did ... it was special ... something that we do not quite understand these days, when everything is listed as special, even though it is so formulaic and so unlike the time that we love dearly ... however, the source of that time and place, is something that folks today do not like to discuss ... too much sex, drugs and music ... and the rest is left behind and forgotten, and sometimes disrespectfully discussed.

There are "scenes" that created a lot of art, and NY is the perfect example, in a style that is not exactly clean, and is badly manipulated, and in terms of creativity, it hardly had any ... some of it grossly over rated by everyone because of the "fame" ... we easily forget that in a huge place like NY, if a band sells 10K albums, 40 years ago, they were not only a HIT, but also immediately famous. And many of us everywhere else believed it, even when the music, and the art was .... you gotta be kidding me!

There really aren't many specials about the 60's in the Bay Area, and many of those folks are long gone. There were a couple on Bill Graham, but in the end, it was more about him than the music and the scene. The "Haight-Ashbury" scene is still hazy ... or likely too stoned to know and remember anything, I guess you could say.

And, goodness ... that Grace had a monster voice! Quite amazing! Thanks for posting this ... I had never seen it, and it should have been twice the size, since it completely ignored Grace and Paul together and there albums, and Grace had been with Spencer Dryden (have to recheck) before. Together, they also put together a couple of monster albums ... 

The Grateful Dead has a couple of films and they are only about the playing of the music and nothing else. In many ways, their material still was not addressed as the bootlegs showed for over 45 years ... they were very far out there in many pieces and some of the remasters being done are actually posting some of those live jams, probably to make it "better" than the bootlegs, although it was known that most of them were recorded directly off the GD's sound board, which was allowed and open to the fans! The long cut in rock music owes the GD a big thanks ... but we don't see that because none of the GD albums concentrate on the long cuts and their musical excursions.

And we don't consider JA "progressive" ... goodness gracious ... they broke and made more rules in that band, more times, than ever, more so than we can count them in our fingers and toes. The GD might not have as much wildness and we might say was more relaxed ... but no less courageous as the JA was!