Being a long time aficionado of a good rock and roll movie, I’m really happy about this recent trend in which the Peter Boddanoviches and Martin Scorseses of the world have been driven to make music films. Scorsese is turning out to be the most prolific with his newly completed Rolling Stones documentary “Shine a Light” currently making the rounds at film festivals and new doc projects in the works about the late great George Harrison and Bob Marley respectively. Also of note is “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” filmmaker Julian Schnabel, who recently shot “Lou Reed’s Berlin” which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like—the legendary former Velvet Underground front man performing his classic album Berlin in its entirety. I have to admit sounds pretty cool to me.
There are also filmmakers like the recently profiled in our Featured Doc Maker column Jonathan Demme who has an Oscar on his mantle somewhere for the horrifying Silence of the Lambs but still manages to squeeze Neil Young and Jimmy Carter into his busy schedule. Keep up the good work guys. You’ve made music and film nerds the world over very, very happy.