DocFest’s music lineup: 90s sing-alongs and OG punks
Music at DocFest OMG and wheau-heau! The traditional sing-along program at DocFest at the Friday, June 6, late show was called Oh Snap! The 90s Sing A Long Show, and it was a rollicking good time,...
View ArticleDocFest opens Thursday with ‘All Things Must Pass,’ a look at the rise and...
SF DocFest, a two-week long immersion into non-fiction movies and programs, kicks of its run Thursday night, June 4, with a screening of All Things Must Pass by director Colin Hanks at the Brava...
View ArticleMusic at DocFest: Flaming Lips film screens tonight; Prince sing-along...
Fans of the Flaming Lips should get down to the Independent club tonight to catch a screening of the The Fearless Freaks, which documents the rise and reign of the fur-laced pop overlords that sprouted...
View ArticleDocFest review: ‘Barge’
Barge Ben Powell’s film looks at the river barge system transporting coal, gravel, corn and other commodities and materials around the ports of the Mississippi River. This vital part of American...
View ArticleDocFest review: ‘Harry & Snowman’
Harry & Snowman What’s not to like about this? Handsome Dutch farmer Harry de Leyer emigrates from post-war Holland to the US and becomes a horse riding instructor on Long Island. He buys a plow...
View ArticleDocFest review: ‘I Am Thor’ movie and Thor’s Parkside show
The DocFest film festival takes musical docs pretty seriously and always programs a nice chunk of movies that have music/musicians as subjects. (They also host a non-documentary Saturday night...
View ArticleDocFest film reviews: Playing games with ‘Top Spin’ and ‘GTFO’
Capsule wraps from the recently completed DocFest: Top Spin This movie follows three very young table tennis athletes who are at the top of their game and compete for spots on the US Olympic squad....
View ArticleDocfest review: ‘Sympathy For The Devil – The True Story Of The Process...
from the recently finished DocFest film festival. Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story Of The Process Church Of The Final Judgement I knew nothing about The Process Church before watching this doc...
View ArticleDocFest film review: ‘Jeff, Embrace Your Past’& the 1992 SFMOMA Jeff Koons...
More from the recently wrapped DocFest film festival: Jeff, Embrace Your Past Back in 1992, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted the first retrospective of Jeff Koon‘s work and Roger Teich...
View ArticleDocfest: Movies about rock & roll, burlesque, Axe Body Spray and nazis
DocFest always includes a satisfying selection of music-related movies. This year they screened quite a few, including Fearless Freaks (about the Flaming Lips), and hosted a mega-dominant experience...
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