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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 [...]
The Last Supper of The Man Who Ate New Orleans
September 22, 2011 – 12:48 pm
[Updated] On October 21, Rev. Ray Cannata, star of the upcoming film The Man Who Ate New Orleans, will complete his goal of eating at every restaurant in New Orleans. The documentary follows this New Jersey minister’s ambitious quest to eat at more than 700 establishments in slightly more than six years. The last stop [...]
Why Does Sly Stone’s Appreciation End In 1973?
August 24, 2011 – 6:04 pm
Sylvester Stewart, leader of seminal funk band Sly & the Family Stone, is one of the least well understood of a cluster of funk artists who produced memorable hits in the late 1960s through early 1980s. Sly Stone vanished in the ’80s, making brief appearances in public when Sly & the Family Stone were inducted [...]
YouTube du Jour: Sly Stone Documentary
August 23, 2011 – 2:12 am
Tonight at the CAC, the New Orleans Film Society and DJ Soul Sister are screening a recent documentary, Coming Back for More, about the influential, hit-making, and enigmatic musician Sly Stone. In the field of funk, dominated by such outlandish personalities as George Clinton and James Brown, Sly Stone has been one of the most [...]
Video du Jour: Louisiana Fairytale
July 11, 2011 – 12:22 pm
During Jazz Fest 2010, after time spent touring together My Morning Jacket singer Jim James joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a night at the Hall. The evening was captured on film by famed music photographer Danny Clinch, and subsequently formed the basis of a documentary/concert film about the Pres Hall Jazz Band, their [...]
