Subgenre Sampler
Music: 1384 Films to Buy & Rent
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Running Down a Dream (2007)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Peter Bogdanovich's exhaustive chronicle of the enormously successful pop/rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, from their inception as…
Tom Waits - Under Review 1971-1982 (2007)
- Feat. Tom Waits
- Music doco chronicling the career of singer–songwriter Tom Waits, containing rarely seen interviews with the man himself, hit songs and rare…
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz…
- Uber–comedy scribe Judd Apatow sends up the recent spate of musical biopics, with John C. Reilly posing as the film's titular, hard livin' rock…
War / Dance (War Dance) (2007)
- Life–affirming Oscar–nominated doco investigates the lives of a group of war–torn Ugandan child refugees on their path towards…
Words from the City (2007)
- Dir. Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham
- Documentary on contemporary Australian hip–hop, exploring fresh ground through its focus on the poetics of the art–form and its place in…
Young @ Heart (Young at Heart) (2007)
- Dir. Stephen Walker
- A stirring, crowd–pleasing music doco for ages 9 to 99 that introduces a spritely senior citizen choir known as 'Young @ Heart' who are…
Acquired Taste (2006)
- Trailblazing Sub Pop Records showcase 25 of their most popular and revolutionary acts in this music video retrospective.
Tracklisting: The Shins,…
Air Guitar Nation (2006)
- Dir. Alexandra Lipsitz
- Sublime documentary on a ridiculous subject, this follows the fortunes of two Americans at the World "Air Guitar" Championships in Finland, in which…
Altered by Elvis (2006)
- Dir. Tiffany Bartok, Jayce Bartok
- Heartfelt documentary exploring the myriad of ways that Elvis Presley has affected people's lives, going down the rabbit warrens of American pop…
Australian Ballet Classic Collection (Giselle, Coppelia, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty) (2006)
- An exciting four–disc box containing four ballets produced by the Australian Ballet in recent years.
"CoppĂ©lia" – Dir. George Ogilvie…