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Music > Pop/Rock: 488 Films to Buy & Rent
Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets (2014)
- Dir. Florian Habicht
- Imaginative Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht collaborates with Jarvis Cocker to mark UK pop rock band Pulp's last ever concert.
Spandau Ballet: Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)
- Feat. Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp
- Top notch documentary about the band Spandau Ballet, who were key proponents of the "New Romantic" pop movement of the early 1980's and went on to…
20 Feet From Stardom (Twenty Feet From Stardom) (2013)
- Dir. Morgan Neville
- [This] is the most satisfying music documentary of the last five years, maybe even longer, and that is really saying something. It is the story of…
Broadway Idiot (2013)
- Dir. Doug Hamilton
- Flashy, upbeat doco charts the journey of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong from pop–punk rocker to Broadway lead in the stage version of…
Mistaken for Strangers (2013)
- Dir. Tom Berninger
- Distinctive among rock–docs, this was made by the underachieving, metal–head brother of indie–rockers 'The National''s…
Stone Roses, The - Made of Stone (2013)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
- Dir. Shane Meadows enthusiastically documents the reunion of iconic band the Stone Roses, who were instrumental in paving the way for the Britpop…
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)
- Dir. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz
Feat. Katy Perry
- A suitably bubbly and inspirational fly–on–the–wall doco that intimately follows the candy–coloured pop chantreuse, Katy…
Paul Kelly: Stories of Me (2012)
- Dir. Ian Darling
- Prolific Aussie singer–songwriter Paul Kelly is afforded a generous, if honest personal portrait in this fine documentary mapping the artist's…
Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012)
- Dir. Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
- Celebrating the "last hurrah" of retro–electro outfit LCD Soundsystem, this of–the–moment concert documentary serves up plenty of…
Adele - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
- A live concert performance of Grammy–winning pop/soul sensation Adele Adkins at the Royal Albert Hall in London.