Musicfilmweb: See It Loud

Antonino D'Ambrosio on his documentary Let Fury Have the Hour, a rousing call to creative arms featuring Chuck D, Tom Morello, and many more outspoken artists. Continue reading →

An encore presentation of our podcast with Stan Warnow, son of the innovative, enigmatic jazz composer Raymond Scott, about his music film Deconstructing Dad. Continue reading →

IndieWire.com columnist Ian Grey visits the music documentary podcast for a debate on the merits of Martin Scorsese's mammoth George Harrison bio. Continue reading →

In the second installment of our conversation with Tony Palmer, the music film veteran talks about dramatizing Dmitri Shostakovich, encounters with John Lennon, and the musical mind of Stanley Kubrick. Continue reading →

In the first of a two-part See It Loud, esteemed British filmmaker Tony Palmer recounts how he made, lost, rediscovered, and restored the Leonard Cohen music documentary Bird on a Wire. Continue reading →

See It Loud, the music documentary podcast, talks to distinguished director Leslie Woodhead about How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, which chronicles the impact of the Fab Four on undermining communist rule in the Soviet Union. Continue reading →

Filmmaker Jay Duplass talks about tracking down Austin troubadour Kevin Gant, the musical hero of his youth, for his first documentary, plus more of what's coming up at music film festival Don't Knock the Rock with co-founders Allison and Tiffany Anders. Continue reading →

The makers of new music films about Thelonious Monster's Bob Forrest and Patty Schemel of Hole on the similarities and differences between their films on drugs and rock 'n' roll in indie-era LA. Continue reading →

Eve Wood, director of the music films Made in Sheffield and The Beat Is the Law, talks about her cycle of documentaries tracing Sheffield music from the '70s to the '90s and featuring Pulp, the Human League, and ABC. Continue reading →

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story director Danny O'Connor recounts chronicling the label that launched Oasis, Ride, and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Continue reading →

The MFW team picks the cream of the music doc crop at South by Southwest 2011, and Andy talks to director Maggie Hadleigh-West about her tough yet tender hip hop doc Player Hating: A Love Story. Continue reading →

See It Loud #22 catches up with Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher of Fishbone and Chris Metzler, co-director of Everyday Sunshine, the acclaimed documentary about the LA punk/funk/ska band's storied and star-crossed run. Continue reading →

Direct from Austin, Texas, MFW talks to the principals behind The Other F Word, a South by Southwest world premiere that takes an intimate look at what happens when punks become fathers and rebelliousness morphs into responsibility. Continue reading →

All sonic and cinematic roads leads to Austin this week as South by Southwest gets underway. As the MusicFilmWeb team prepares to converge on the Texas capital for a smorgasbord of music, movies, breakfast tacos, and Lone Star beer, we’re talking SXSW music docs. Continue reading →

See It Loud kicks it old school with Dick Fontaine, one of the deans of British documentary and the director of the rare hip hop docs Beat This! and Bombin’. Continue reading →

Filmmaker Morgan Neville returns to See It Loud to talk about Troubadours, his Sundance-bound chronicle of the LA singer-songwriter scene of the '70s. Continue reading →

The lowdown from music doc vet John Scheinfeld on his ride through the rollercoaster life of the late pop star Harry Nilsson. Continue reading →

Wavy Gravy talks about his life as a Woodstock MC, social activist, and psychedelic clown, and filmmaker Michelle Esrick discusses her new documentary on the hippie icon. Continue reading →

Anvil frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow talks about the Canadian metal band's new life since the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil transformed them from has-beens into hard rock folk heroes. Continue reading →

Andy Markowitz talks to Kerthy Fix about Strange Powers, her decade-in-the-making doc on unlikely indie rock icon and great American songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band, The Magnetic Fields. Continue reading →