Aro Favourite: Music
14 Music Films have attained the hallowed status of Aro Favourite
- In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (2024)
- The definitive musical biography about one of the most gifted singer–songwriters of his generation. Now in his early eighties, Paul Simon is…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (2023)
- The story of Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson, a couple of unlikely London lads who stumbled into forming the coolest art design group of…
- DVD $29.95
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)
- Beautiful portrait of revered Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, that captures the unique compositional process of a new work he…
- DVD $29.95
- Poi E: The Story of Our Song (2016)
- An aptly feel–good documentary account of the unlikely pop hit that boldly mashed up "Kapa Haka" song tradition and Te Reo Maori lyrics with…
- DVD $19.95
- 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
- A 24–hour portrait of writer and musician Nick Cave, blending fiction and reality, as it examines the artistic process and the power of the…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray
$34.95 $17.50
- Mistaken for Strangers (2013)
- Distinctive among rock–docs, this was made by the underachieving, metal–head brother of indie–rockers 'The National''s…
- DVD $29.95
- Muscle Shoals (2013)
- A marvellous and comprehensive celebration of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the unlikely birthplace and subsequent epicentre of some of America's most…
- DVD $29.95
- Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009)
- An adorable, "Kiwi–as" portrait of NZ's beloved folk–singing comedy duo, Jools and Lynda Topp, which also resonates as a ripely…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- La Vie en Rose (2007)
- Marion Cotillard excels (and deservingly won a Best Actress Oscar) in this stunning new biopic of the life and times of French singer Edith…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Young @ Heart (Young at Heart) (2007)
- A stirring, crowd–pleasing music doco for ages 9 to 99 that introduces a spritely senior citizen choir known as 'Young @ Heart' who are…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Beat My Heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) (2005)
- A star–turn by Romain Duris invigorates this deft remake of James Toback's 1978 thriller FINGERS, playing a reluctant young thug with a…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003)
- Before his successful foray into feature films, director Spike Jonze made his name as the pre–eminent music video director of the 1990s. He…
- DVD $24.95
- Stop Making Sense (1983)
- 'Talking Heads' came to their commercial and artistic summit with this live show and the accompanying album. One of the great rock music achievements…
- DVD $34.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Privilege (1967)
- Paul Jones (one–time vocalist for the Manfred Mann group) fronts a government–sanctioned brainwash as a rock idol whose music is being…
- DVD
$30 $22.50