The poster for the music documentary 20 Feet From Stardom (2013, PG-13) advertises the appearances of Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder and Bette Midler, ironic since the documentary is really about the back-up singers who performed with them and many others, always outside of the spotlight. Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Claudia […]
Best of Enemies (2015) carries the subtitle “Buckley vs. Vidal” and it is indeed a portrait of a rivalry, one that was presented on prime time network television at a time when there were three networks and TV news strived to be fair and balanced to a fault. In 1968, William F. Buckley was the […]
Keith Richards: Under the Influence profiles the Rolling Stones guitarist, songwriter, and rock legend at 71. The film is directed by Morgan Neville, who made the Oscar-nominated 20 Feet from Stardom (about the unsung back-up singers of rock and roll), and is built around footage of Richards in the recording studio (working on his first solo […]
