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Sound Unseen: Idiosyncratic Music Documentaries Were In Full Focus At Twin Cities Film Festival
The world of music documentaries is a complex one. There are plenty of films covering the biggest artists in the world from Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé to Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Hulu’s Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles ’64. But under the surface, music like alternative music […]
Held in the Twin Cities across a variety of cinemas in and around Minneapolis, the festival showcases a slew of leftfield films from interesting directors and filmmakers such as Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, Ani DiFranco’s 1-800-On-Her Own, hip hop doc It Was All A Dream, Broken Social Scene’s It’s All Gonna Break, Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands, This Is A Film About The Black Keys and Teaches of Peaches. Then, there’s Range Life, a scripted segment starring Stranger Things’ Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus as well as Jason Schwartzmann and Tim Heidecker as record label bosses Chris Lombardi and Gerard Cosloy, as well as footage of Slanted! The film covers Perry’s abusive childhood, her strained relationship with her mother, a secret battle with breast cancer and double mastectomy as well as her creative process working with artists such as Brandi Carlisle and Kate Hudson.
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