May Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVD: Women in Love (with Rosamund Pike and Rachael Stirling).

Amazon Theatricals: Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundament-
alist (with Riz Ahmed), Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (with Greta Gerwig), Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (documentary with Giorgio Armani, Marc Jacobs, etc.), Scot McGehee and David Siegel's What Maisie Knew (Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan), and The Spectacular Now (Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley).

Still playing: Admission, Disconnect, Life of Pi, Quartet, and The Sapphires.

 

Line Out: The Phoenix Foundation Goes Deep, Scout Niblett:
No Wigs, No Scrubs, Psych-Glam Band The Burnt Ones' "Web" 
and You'll Never Walk Alone, UV Race and Life Stinks at Barboza, Sic Alps' Top-of-the-Pop-Tart Jam "Biz Bag" Is Rocking My World, King Khan Signs to Merge Records, Issues Statement Filled with Movie References, and More Musical Goodness from Burger.

Still playing: The Source Family.  

Video Librarian: 110%, Face 2 Face, Flirting with Danger - Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships, It Was Rape, Love, Hate and Everything in Between, Saving Face, Still Around, Wonder Women! - The Untold Story of American Superheroines, Paul Anka - Live in Switzerland [Blu-ray], Save the Date, OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More, Steel Magnolias, An Affair of the Heart, A Tribute to Ron Asheton, Wine, Women & Friends.



Endnote: Frances Ha still from IFC (opens in Seattle on 5/24). 

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April Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month. 

Amazon 
DVDs: A Late Quartet [Blu-ray] (Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cath-
erine Keener), Weeds - Season Eight: The Final Season [two-disc set], and Parade's End (Judi Dench).

Amazon Theatrical: Disconnect (Alexander Skarsgård).

Still playing (or yet to open): Admission, Amour, Beyond the Hills, 
The Guilt Trip, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Quartet, and The Sapphires.

Line Out: Herbcraft's Fantastic Voyage, Ellen Alien Composed
a Score for You, New Video and Song: The Cyclist's "Bones in Motion," King Tuff: Bad Words and Classic Beats, New Dark Dark Dark Song: "What I Needed," Colleen Green Makes Pure Pop for Now People, The Burnt Ones Are on Your Side, Carmen Villain's Video Focuses on Faces, Angel Olsen's New Record & Tour, A Trip to the Past with Dead Ghosts, Angel Olsen's Stunning Set at Barboza, New Helado Negro Video: "Relatives," It Came from Toronto: Odonis Odonis, Bobby Whitlock: Rock & Roll Survivor.



Video Librarian: Barbie in the Pink Shoes [Blu-ray], Sousa on the Rez - Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum, I’m Now - The Story of Mudhoney, Spirit of the Church, Vol. 1, Miles Davis with Quincy Jones & the Gil Evans Orchestra - Live at Montreux 1991 [Blu-ray], GLOW - The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Michael Jackson - Moscow Case 1993 - When the King 
of Pop Met the Soviets, and Future Weather.



Endnote: Herbcraft image from Woodsist.  

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March Reviews

Still from Beware of Mr. Baker.

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month. 

Amazon DVDs: The Sessions [Blu-ray] (with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt) and Secrets of Highclere Castle.

Amazon Theatricals: The Sapphires, Admission (with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd), At Any Price (Dennis Quaid and Zac Ephron), and Cristian
Mungiu's Beyond the Hills.  

Still playing (or yet to open): Amour, Bless Me, Ultima, The Guilt
Trip, Life of Pi, Lincoln, The Master, Quartet, and Rust and Bone.

Line Out: The Asshole Glory of Ginger Baker, Cellist Julia Kent Has Character, Yellowbirds - "Young Men of Promise," Helado Negro - Calm Cool, and Collected, The Music and Movies of the L.A. Rebellion, Web of Sunsets - "Fool's Melodies," Odonis Odonis's "Better" Brings Me Back, Julian Lynch's Psych-Jazz-Folk Lines, Carmen Villain: Model, Musician, Dreamer, RocketNumberNine's Get-to-Work Music, METZ and Master's Freddie Quell: "Wasted."  

Video Librarian: The Big Picture - Rethinking Dyslexia, Lost and Sound, The World Before Her, No Way Out But One, Phineas and Ferb - Animal Agents, Starlet, and Wuthering Heights.



Endnote: Ginger Baker image from Snag Films.  

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February Reviews

Paul Williams (Paul Williams: Still Alive) at the Egyptian on 5/12.

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month. 

Amazon DVDs: Downton Abbey -Season Three [two-disc set] and Boardwalk Empire - The Complete Third Season [five-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals: Bless Me, Ultima. 

Still playing (or yet to open): Amour, Anna Karen-
ina, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Quartet, and Rust and Bone.

Line Out: Feeding People's Island Universe, Yo La Tengo - Steadfast and True, Sleepwalking in Space with Psychic Twin, Julian Lynch's Lovely "Carios kelleyi I," Mouse on Mars Are on
the Move, Pony Time - "What If You Caught Me," White Fence's Fuzztastic "Pink Gorilla," Sonny Smith Contains Multitudes,
Anika Covers Chromatics on New EP, Mouse on Mars, Mat-
mos, and Horse Lords, "Bitter Buddha" Eddie Pepitone at NW-
FF, Barren Girls - "She-Devil," Melt Yourself Down's Life-Fixer.



Video Librarian: Chicken with Plums, Color Me Obsessed -
A Film about the Replacements, Gossip Girl - The Complete
Sixth and Final Season [three-disc set], 28 Hotel Rooms, Face-
book Follies, Loving a Stranger, Paul Williams - Still Alive,
Sext Up Kids - How Children Are Becoming Hypersexualiz-
ed, and Transgender Tuesdays - A Clinic in the Tenderloin.

 

Endnote: Image from my personal collection. 

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January Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: The Life & Times of Tim - The Complete Third Season [2-disc set], The Hour - Season Two [2-Blu set], Scarecrow and Mrs. King - The 4th and Final Season [5-disc set]. 

Amazon Theatricals: Amour (Michael Hanecke
directs Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and Quartet (Dustin Hoffman directs Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay).

Still playing (or yet to open): Anna Karenina, The Guilt Trip,  
Life of Pi, Lincoln, Playing for Keeps, and Rust and Bone. 

Line Out: Raw Balls and Bad Eggs: The Ballad of UV Race, Listen to Broadcast's Semi-Final LP, Girls Names - "Hypnotic Regression," New Year's Greetings from Michel Gondry, Nick Cave Knows Who You Are, Woodsist Signs Eat Skull, the Woolen Men, The Return of Camper Van Beethoven, Back from the Grave with Segall and Cronin, Surf Party with the Traditional Fools, LISm: Ellen Allien's Headphone Dance Score, Haunting New Videos from Angel Olsen, Lonnie Holley: Before Music, Outside Time, On Her New Single, Colleen Green Has All the Time in the World, Julia Kent's Dramatic Tourbillon, and Herbcraft's Flute-Saturated Stunner.



Video Librarian: (A)Sexual  - A Minority No Longer Silent, 
Jason Becker - Not Dead Yet, The Boy Game, From Dust to 
Dreams - Opening Night at the Smith, Grrrl Love and Revolution - 
Riot Grrrl NYC, The Light in Her Eyes, Mama C - Urban Warrior in the African Bush, Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 [Blu-ray], Strong!, World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, Ike & Tina - On the Road: 1971-72, Lady Antebellum - Own the Night: World Tour, Let the Music Play - Story of the Doobie Bros., Joan Rivers - Don’t Start with Me, Playing for Keeps, Rust and Bone.

Endnote: British poster image from Artificial Eye. 

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December Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: Psych - The Complete Sixth Season [four-disc set], Call the Midwife - Season One [two-disc set], and Eastbound & Down - The Complete Third Season [two-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals:  
Playing for Keeps (with
Gerard Butler and Jessica
Biel), Rust and Bone (Jac-
ques Audiard directs Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts), and The Guilt Trip (with Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand).

Line Out: Mikal Cronin Signs to Merge Records, METZ Digital Single: "Dirty Shirt," Vex Ruffin: Getting Wiggy in Chino, The Haunting Sounds of Holly Herndon, Django Django: Video, Remix, and Tour Date, Chrome Canyon's "Pluze" and the Season of Lists, Blues Control Takes Their Show on the Road, More KCMU Schwag from Way Back When, NYC Duo's Sampledelic Dream Sequence, Sun Araw Reunites with the Congos, and Trux's Accelerator.   

 

Video Librarian: Call the Midwife - Season One [two-disc set], 
Delete - The Art of Forgetting, Just Around the Corner, Produced 
by George Martin [Blu-ray], Liberal Arts, Freddie Mercury - The 
Great Pretender [Blu], Gary Moore - Blues for Jimi [Blu], Sky-
dancer, Words of Witness, I Am - SM Town Live World Tour in Madison Square Garden, So - Peter Gabriel [Blu], Chely Wright - Wish Me Away, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, John Cage - Journeys in Sound [Blu], Greg Allman - I'm No Angel, Paco de Lucía and Group - Live at the Germeringer Jazztage, Half the Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

 

Endnote: Rust and Bone image from Sony Pictures Classics.  

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November Reviews

Technological remnant of the 1980s

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month. 









Amazon DVDs: Parenthood - The Complete 3rd Season [five-disc set], Last of the Summer Wine - Vintage 1995 Sum-
mer Reserve [two-disc set], Upstairs Downstairs - Season 2 [two-disc set], and Ancient Aliens - Season 4 [two-Blu-ray set]

Amazon Theatricals: Ang Lee's Life of Pi, Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (with Daniel Day-Lewis).

Line Out: Matmos Gets Literal in New Video, Dual Form, Cyclist, and Cassette Culture, There Are Still Careers in Combat, My Son, Remixing Neneh Cherry and The Thing, Big Star and the Ballad of the Rock Doc, Stones Throw Doc on the Way, Just Say Yeah, Yeah, Yeah to Tyvek, Tweeting Scott Walker's Bish Bosch, Lola, the Boombox Cat, The Ghost of Karen Carpenter Lives On, Pearl Necklace, Arp, Double Entendres, Helado Negro's "Dance Ghost".



Video Librarian: The Kathy Griffin Collection [two-disc set], 5 
Broken Cameras, Groundhogs - Live at Astoria, Mariachi High. 


 
Endnote: Image from my personal collection.  

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Sic Alps photo by David Waldman

October Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.



Amazon DVDs: Burn Notice - Season Five [four-disc set],  
Kingdom - Season One (with Stephen Fry) [two-disc set], and  
The Ice House (with Daniel Craig and Corin Redgrave).

Amazon Theatrical: Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights.

Line Out: Niobe's Close Call, What Goes On with Sic Alps, Robust Worlds - "Best Wishes," Chrome Canyon's Elemental Themes, Six Organs of Admittance at the Crocodile, Generationals - "Sale City," Throbbing Gristle, Genesis, and Nico, Martin Eden's Dedicate(d) Function, Rangda's Desert Trip, Field Music Play(s) the Hits, Black Moth and the Return of the Rad Cult, Shirley Clarke's The Connec-
tion, Girls Names - "The New Life," Angel from Chicago (by Way of
Missouri), Holly Herndon's Fabulous "Fade," Soft Moon's Zeros. 

 

SIFFBlog: The 2012 Stranger Genius Awards. 

Video Librarian: Turn Me On, Dammit!, 17 Girls, Fela Kuti 
Double Feature - Documentary and Concert: Teacher Don't Teach
Me Nonsense / Berliner Jazztage '78 [two-disc set], Ben Lee - 
Catch My Disease, Sushi - Global Catch, Salt of Life, Hung - The 
Complete Third Season [two-disc set], Grey’s Anatomy - The Com-
plete Eighth Season [six-disc set], Etta James - Live at Montreux 
[Blu], Happy Endings - The Complete Second Season [2-disc set].


 
Endnote: Mike Donovan image from Drag City. 

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September Reviews

These are
 the reviews 
and other
 pieces I'm 
working on 
this month.

Amazon DVDs: Leverage - The 4th Season [4-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paron-
naud's Chicken with Plums (with Mathieu Amalric), Liberal Arts (with Elizabeth Olsen), and P.T. Anderson's The Master (with Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams).  

Still playing (or yet to open): For a Good Time, Call..., Hello I Must
Be Going, The Hunger Games, Old Goats, Sparkle, and The Words.  


 
Line Out: Apocalypse - A Bill Callahan Tour Film, Norwood Fisher at the NWFF, Inside Melody's Echo Chamber, Switched on by Chrome Canyon, Redd Kross at Chop Suey, Laetitia Sadier - "The Rule of the Game," Striking Sparks with Ben Chasny, Sing Along with the Fall, Teen Daze Teams Up with Frankie Rose, Get Physical with Moon Duo and King Khan, Fac. Dance 02: Global Groove Machine, Cat Power's Triumphant Sun, METZ: More Noise Please, The Best Tom Waits Song...This Week, Terra Treasures from Levek, The Raveonettes and Melody's Echo Chamber, Dem-
dike Stare and Director Jean Rollin, Bad Books - "Forest Whitak-
er," Drag City's Crazy Commercials, Julianna Barwick and Maria Minerva (at the Triple Door), and Niobe's Cclose Calll.

Video Librarian: Mike and Molly - The Complete Second Season [three-disc set], Autumn de Forest, The Boxing Girls of Kabul, A Drummer's Dream, How to Make a Book with Steidl, The Klez-
matics - On Holy Ground, Master Qi and the Monkey King, Our Summer in Tehran, Reflections on Media Ethics, The Witches of Gambaga, Staind - Live from Mohegan Sun [Blu-ray], and Sparkle.

 

 

Endnote: Bill Callahan image from his Apocalypse Kickstarter.

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August Reviews

These are the reviews and other 
pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: Going for the Gold - The '48 Games, Misfits - Season One [two-disc set], Mighty Morphin Powers Rangers - Season 1, Vol. 1 [three-disc set], and Judge John Deed - Season Six [two-disc set]. 

Amazon Theatricals: Old Goats, The Words (with Bradley
Cooper and Zoë Saldana), and Sparkle (with Whitney Houston). 

Still playing (or yet to open): For a Good Time Call..., Hello I Must Be
Going, The Hunger Games, Neil Young Journeys, and To Rome with Love. 

Line Out: Frankie Rose Takes a Trip to the 1980s, Psychic Ills-Moon Duo Split Single, Redd Kross's Welcome Return, Black Moth Super Rainbow Conquers Kickstarter, Releases New Single, Eats Your Face, Levek's Lovely "French Lessons", Franco Falsini's Cosmic Saudade, BURN!, Moon Duo - "Sleepwalker,"   Melody's Echo Chamber Meets UMO, Django Django's Intergalactic Show-
down, The Presets - "Youth in Trouble," Soft Moon - "Die Life," Onuinu's Shimmering Mirror Gazer, Redd Kross - "Stay Away from Downtown," Catching up with Matthew Cooper, The Dream of the '80s Is Alive in Greenpoint, Nude Beach: Video and Tour Dates, ESP EP and ESP-Disk, Moon Duo and Lumerians at Octopus Fest, Mouse on Mars - "They Know Your Name," Sic Alps - "Glyphs," Ty Segall - "The Hill," Matmos - "Very Large Green Triangles." 



East Portland Blog: My pics are in this piece.

Siffblog: Your Sister's Sister (holdover from SIFF '12).  

Video Librarian: Changing Your Mind, Coping to Excelling, The Chilean Building, Eating Baba Yaga - An Evening with Brian Rohr, Family Portrait in Black and White, Hit So Hard - The Life and Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel, Shakespeare High, Tales of the Waria, Water Children, John Gorka - The Gypsy Life [Blu-ray], Kasabian Live [Blu-ray], Rockwell - A Night of Legendary Collaborations, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, 4.3.2.1, Parenthood - Season 3 [4-disc set], Raspberry Magic, Slipknot: (sic)nesses—Live at Download, Tonight You’re Mine, Leave It on the Floor, Pink Ribbons, Inc., The Slut, Going for the Gold, Boardwalk Empire - Complete 2nd Season [5-disc set].

 

Endnote: Researching the Blues image from Merge Records.

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July Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: Super WHY!: Around the World Adventure, Art: 21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season Six, Birdsong, Great Expectations, and Secrets of the Manor House.

Amazon Theatricals: Jonathan Demme's Neil 
Young Journeys and  
For a Good Time, Call... 

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street, Hello I Must Be Going, The Hunger Games, The Lucky One, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, The Three Stooges, To Rome with Love. 

Line Out: YouTube to Upgrade Comment System, Blues Control's Valley Tangents, Deep Time Album Teaser and Stream, ESG and the Factory Dance Archives, The Comet Gets a New Mural, Shin-
taro Sakamoto Makes Me Feel Fine, Black Bananas - "Foxy Play-
ground," Brits Keep the Flame of Krautrock Alive, Washington Post Pummels Twin Shadow, Pre-Decibel Orbital Mega-Post, Dirty Three - "Rising Below," Girls Names - "A Troubled See," ByDesign: Music Films and Events, A Million Miles Away with Nude Beach, I Want My Name Back, Love Rock Revolution at Elliot Bay Book Co., Thee Oh Sees Rock AllSaints, Estonian Brings Hazed Beats to Town, XTC: Melt the Guns (and the Thugs), Taken by Storm at the NWFF, Tame Impala: New Keyboards, Old Producer, Stream New Shawn Lee Album, More Weird and Creepy Imagery from BEAK>.

 

Video Librarian: Drop Dead Diva – The Complete Third Season [3-disc set], Love Never Dies [Blu-ray], Chicago in Chicago, The FP, Girl Model, Gone - The Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern, Good Deeds [Blu], Marley, From the Back of the Room, Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here [Blu], and Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones - Checkerboard Lounge: Live Chicago 1981.

 

Endnote: Neil Young poster image from Sony Classics

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Abbott and Lynskey in Hello I Must Be Going

June 

Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month 

Amazon DVDs: Albert Nobbs [Blu-ray] and Emmanuelle.

Amazon Theatricals: Hello I Must Be Going (with
Melanie Lynskey) and Woody Allen's To Rome with Love.

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games,  
The Lucky One, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, and The Three Stooges.

KCTS 9: Speaker at this month's History Café on Seattle Rock.  

Line Out: The Womack - on the Screen and in the Studio, Julia
Holter, Naomi Yang, and Sigur Ros, Lee Hazlewood and Martin Newell, Blues Control - "Love's a Rondo," "You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger", What Is the Summer MixTape Festival?, I Faced the Music (and Survived), Deep Time - "Clouds," Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source, Bruce Spring-
steen and the Ties That Bind, Cate Le Bon Announces Cyrk II EP, Doom Metal Pioneer Rises from the Grave, Neneh Cherry Meets The Thing, Sub Pop Signs METZ, I've Done a Lot of Foolish Things, "It's a rip off!," Ty Segall Band's Slaughterhouse, The Night I Met METZ, Getting a Fix on Franco Falsini, New Laetitia Sadier Track.

 

Siffblog: Blurry Pictures of Dynamic Directors.

Video Librarian: Menopause in an Hour [two-disc set], 
Quadrangle, Bonsái, Chick Corea and Friedrich Gulda - 
The Meeting: Live Recording from the Muncher Klaviersom-
mer '82, Girl Fight, Here, John Mellencamp - It’s About You  
[Blu-ray], Queen of Hearts, The Raconteurs - Live at Mont-
reux 2008 [Blu-ray], Simply Red - Live at Montreux 20-
03 [Blu-ray], and Ultrasuede - In Search of Halston.

Kate Winslet and Lynskey in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures

Endnote: Hello I Must Be Going image from Indiewire via Oscilloscope Laboratories, Heavenly Creatures from Miramax.

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May Reviews

These are the reviews and other 
pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVD: Weeds - Season Seven [three-disc set] (click here for six). 

Amazon Theatricals:  
Sound of My Voice (with
Another Earth writer-
actress Brit Marling).

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games,
The Lucky One, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, and The Three Stooges.

Line Out: Seun Kuti - From Africa with Fury, Prins Thomas Remixes Dent May, Happy Trails with MV and EE, Willis Earl
Beal - One-Man Band at Barboza, Ty Segall and White Fence at Chop Suey, Beak > Returns to Bedevil Your Text, Melody's Echo Chamber - "Crystallized," Live Music + 35mm Classics at the NWFF, On Musical Perpetual-Motion Machines, Pickled Pig's Feet and Corn Liquor (Standing in the Shadows of Motown), A Band Called Death: The Documentary, Dent May Does Things His Own Way, Alpine Party Rock with Thee Oh Sees, Young Magic Remix and Mixtape, "Don't Fuck with the Fat Kid," Bad Brains: A Band in DC, Shintaro Sakamoto - "In a Phantom Mood," Julia Holter and
Jib Kidder at Barboza, Redd Kross Research the Blues, Paul Williams at the Egyptian, Roll the Dice's Canadian Mixtape,
The Soft Moon and John Foxx, and Blouse - "Time Travel."  


 
SIFF (notes for the 2012 guide): Finding North, Rebellion, Step
up to the Plate, Goodbye, Winter Nomads, A Checkout Girl's Big Adventures, The Crown Jewels, The Fourth State, The Blindfold, L’Afrance, Free Throw, The Details, and The Intouchables.

Siffblog: SIFF Dispatch #1, SIFF Dispatch #2, SIFF Dispatch #3.

Video Librarian: Legends of Folk - The Village Scene, Sleep-
ing Beauty, The Man on the Train, The Best of Bluegrass Un-
derground, The Fat Body (In)Visible, The Jeff Healey Band - 
Live in Belgium,  Leaving Home, Me Facing Life - Cyntoia's 
Story, One Alcoholic to Another - Demystifying AA, Wild Life - 
Une Vie Sauvage, Dawn of the Dead - The Grateful Dead and 
the Rise of the San Francisco Underground, Led Zeppelin - 
Dazed and Confused, and When the Drum Is Beating.



Endnote: Image from Fox Searchlight Pictures.

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