Some interesting looking music documentaries at Raindance this year:
Better Than Something: Jay Retard
Portrait of the recently deceased Mr Retard
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 71,0,0,1,0
Color Me Obsessed
Documentary about The Replacements
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 57,0,0,1,0
Mother Of Rock - Lillian Roxton
About Max's Kansas City and journalist Lillian Roxton's part in documenting it
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 59,0,0,1,0
Music From The Big House
Canadian singer Rita Chiarelli traces the roots of blues and investigates the seminal role played by Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary.
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 65,0,0,1,0
Noise And Resistance
A look at a globally interconnected and political music scene. (Presumably the NME will think this film is fiction)
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 34,0,0,1,0
Echo Of Astro Boys Footsteps
Portrait of legendary sound designer Matuo Ohno, the man responsible for the music from the Astro Boy anime
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 77,0,0,1,0
A Rubber Band Is An Unlikely Instrument
An eccentric Brooklyn musician wrestles with the complexities of life, family and a stable future on the fringes of a new American landscape.
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 83,0,0,1,0
there's also a couple of fictional films with music at their centre:
Punk's Not Dead
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 71,0,0,1,0
Control Tower
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.p ... 17,0,0,1,0
All films at the Apollo Cinema, Lower Regent's Street
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