A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
Once a popular seaside resort, Asbury Park, New Jersey was also home to the Upstage, a now legendary club where musicians such Steven Van Zandt, Southside Johnny Lyon and Bruce Springsteen got their first breaks. It was there that Springsteen met players such as Vini 'Mad Dog' Lopez, David Sancious, Garry Tallent, Danny Federici and Ernest 'Boom' Carter. These musicians brought the sound of Asbury Park to the wider world. Then on Independence Day, 1970, Asbury Park experienced seven days of race riots which crippled the town for the next 45 years and destroyed the famous Westside jazz and blues scene. Closed down and boarded up, the Upstart club remains a perfect time capsule, a memorial to the legendary Jersey sound. This film features a concert given to a sold-out Paramount Theater by Van Zandt, Southside Johnny and Springsteen plus never-before-seen interviews and performances, and an Upstage reunion jam. A mindblowing theatrical event in Asbury Park where it all began.
To mark 20 years since the release of The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers hit the road in 2014 and 2015 to perform their seminal album in full for the first time. Over the course of 10 dates across the UK, the band wrung every inch of emotion and anger possible from their most painful, open and blistered record to enthral their fans - for whom the album is everything.
Armed with his camera, film-maker and band collaborator Kieran Evans joined them on the road. Propelled along by an astonishing live mix by longtime Manics collaborator Dave Eringa, Be Pure - Be Vigilant - Behave is a brutal, exhaustive and transcendent testament to, and of, the band, their history, the bond they share with their fans, and where they are now.
From intense reactions to explosive close ups, immersive lighting effects and achingly fragile moments, it's unlike any concert film you have seen or experienced before and will probably ever see again.
It's a documentary about the life of eccentric comidian Frank Sidebottom who wore a huge paper mache' head and whose true identity was a closely guarded secret until after died. The 2014 Magnolia Pictures film titled Frank was inspired by his sensational mystery.
A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.