New Orleans always has waves of underground rock scenes, and throughout the 1990s there was a small but fertile scene centered around lower Magazine Street venues the R.C. Bridge Lounge and Abstract Book Shop & Cafe. Un Heard Of is a documentary about that time, by veteran drummer Jody Smith (Dash Rip Rock, The Bad [...]
Tag Archives: Documentary
Stevie Wonder and MLK Day
January 16, 2012 – 2:33 pm
Although it’s popular at birthday parties today, Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” was originally released in 1981 in support of the burgeoning movement to make Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. That year he went on tour with Gil Scott-Heron on the heels of Hotter Than July, the album containing “Birthday”. The 4-month trek [...]
YouTube Du Jour: Piano Players Rarely Play Together
November 28, 2011 – 10:00 am
Tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday, a digitally restored version of Stevenson Palfi‘s documentary Piano Players Rarely Play Together will show at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.) at 7:30 p.m. Also on the bill will be Palfi’s final finished work, the short The World According to Ernie K-Doe. $40,000 were spent restoring [...]
New Orleans Film Festival: Top 5 Picks For Wednesday, October 19
October 19, 2011 – 3:53 pm
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New Orleans Film Festival: Top 5 Picks For Tuesday, October 18
October 18, 2011 – 4:31 pm
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King of Oak Street Screening Free Friday at Tipitina’s
October 11, 2011 – 6:18 pm
The Frenchy documentary King of Oak Street has, before recent developments, been difficult to see even for those who desperately wanted to. The documentary competed at the 2009 Big Easy Film Festival, where it won best documentary and feature, but has never been available on DVD. Looking online for such a niche feature was useless, so [...]
Pearl Jam at Zeitgeist
September 26, 2011 – 12:05 pm
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center is showing Pearl Jam Twenty nightly at 9:30 p.m. through Thursday. The documentary film by Cameron Crowe includes previously unseen footage of the band over the course of its 20-year history. Advance tickets are on sale nightly from the Zeitgeist Box Office, or they can be purchased over the phone with [...]
