MFW_Blog | Tuesday, der 31. May 2011
From the archives of MusicFilmWeb, part 3: Podcast with Andy Markowitz and Dave Watson of SeeItLoud (MusicFilmWeb) in conversation with London journalist Chris Mugan about the current state of music documentaries as well as high- and lowlights of the past – with Tony Palmer’s documentary Bird on a Wire about Leonard Cohen the point of departure. SeeItLoud Podcast # 11 originally published on August 14, 2010.
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On August 19, the restored version of famed British filmmaker Tony Palmer’s 1972 Leonard Cohen tour doc Bird on a Wire will have its U.K. premiere at the Green Man Festival in southeastern Wales (with a DVD release to follow in September). Chris Mugan, a London journalist who writes about music for the Independent, took the opportunity of the re-release to pen an article praising Palmer – a seminal music documentarian best-known for the 1977 TV series All You Need Is Love, an epic history of popular music – and lamenting most of the current crop of rock docs as largely „cross-platform, multimedia releases that merely provide extra marketing channels that the artists themselves increasingly control.“
On this edition of See It Loud, Chris Mugan joins Andy Markowitz and Dave Watson to talk about Bird on a Wire, Tony Palmer, and the state of the modern music doc, including the odd film like Some Kind of Monster or DiG! that aims to reveal the people behind the music. Plus Czech celebrities, metal agonistes, and the possible fate of a certain little-seen Stones flick.
This podcast contains a few unseemly references to body parts and physical acts. Music (by Los Musicos de Jose) was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley.
Listen here: see-it-loud-11-whats-the-matter-with-rock-docs-today
Related films on realeyz.tv: TULI KUPFERBERG READS ROLLING STONE, TOTALLY WIRED, VOODOO RHYTHM – THE GOSPEL OF PRIMITIVE ROCK ‚N‘ ROLL, MONKS – THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK, ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA.