Uncut Interview Series: Toto
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See Raw footage from the 1999 induction ceremony of Toto into Hollywood’s Rockwalk located at the Guitar Center in Hollywood. See footage of the the group put their hands in cement for the public and news cameras as well as candid Interview with band members. Season 1. Episode 14.
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche
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Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band, and a key influence on the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements. But Poly didn’t just leave behind a cultural footprint. She was survived by a daughter, Celeste, who became the steward of her mother’s legacy and demons, which plagued Poly’s life and scarred the pair’s relationship. With narration by Ruth Negga, this film follows Celeste’s journey to better understand Poly as an icon and mother.
Andy Warhol's Factory People: Inside The Sixties Silver Factory
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"Andy Warhol's Factory People" tells the story of the 60's Silver Factory that Andy founded in 1964 in an abandoned hat factory on East 47th Street in New York City. The Silver Factory lasted until 1968 when Andy gave up the lease and moved to the White Factory on Union Square. Shortly after moving in the Spring of '68, Andy was shot by Valerie Solanas, and this event bookends the period of time covered in "Factory People." The film takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
Devo - The Men Who Make The Music
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The Men Who Make the Music combines concert footage from DEVO's 1978 tour with music videos and testimonials featuring a vague story about DEVO's rocky relationship with "Big Entertainment."
Russ Meyer's Supervixens
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When a hot-blooded wife and a psychotic cop (a startling performance by Charles Napier of The Blue Brothers fame) come together, it will ignite a cross-country odyssey of violence, vengeance and relentless coitus. John Lazar, Uschi Digard and Haji co-star in Russ’ “super-sexy live-action Road Runner cartoon” (Empire), now restored by Severin Films in conjunction with The Russ Meyer Trust.
Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Frank Zappa"
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Circa 1986, this Night Flight Short Cut captures Frank Zappa at the height of the PMRC controversy, challenging censorship, and arguing that every form of music has a right to exist:
"If you can't have it in every degree from the cheesiest to the most exalted because they all need to exist together. Without Louie Louie, a symphony is not quite so grand."
Beyond The 7th Door
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More than 30 years later, it remains one of the most ambitious, sought-after and totally bizarre low-budget Canadian features of all: Yugoslavian-born actor Lazar Rockwood in a debut performance Canuxploitation.com calls "creepy, astonishingly uncharismatic, and displaying a complete disregard for the craft of acting" is Boris, an ex-con and career thief who convinces his ex-girlfriend (Bonnie Beck) to help him rob her wealthy boss' castle. But when Boris discovers that the eccentric millionaire has booby-trapped the building, they'll have to survive six riddle-triggered rooms of homicidal mayhem in order to claim the treasure. Writer/director (and future best-selling religious thriller author) B.D. Benedikt made his unforgettable filmmaking debut with this bottom-shelf VHS classic.
Night Flight - "Take Off" to European Rock
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A classic "Take Off" episode highlighting European rock including videos from Peter Schilling, Nina Hagen, Scorpions and more.
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
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REMASTERED: David Markey's Desperate Teenage Lovedolls chronicles the rise and fall of the fictitious all girl band, the Lovedolls. "Kind of an all-girl Spinal Tap" said the Los Angeles Reader at the time of release. The positive critical response didn't stop there. "This is worthy of a Joan Crawford vehicle" chimed The Village Voice. Made on a micro-budget and cast with members of the Los Angeles punk scene (Redd Kross, Black Flag etc.), shot guerrilla-style on the streets of Hollywood and Santa Monica and Venice. This was a true Do-It-Yourself effort, made for the ragged fellow travelers on the scene at the time.
American Hippie In Israel
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Machine gun wielding mimes, robots, blood thirsty sharks, free-loving debauchery and poignant anti-war monologues by raving mad hippies, all this and more is present in writer-director-prophet Amos Sefer’s allegorical independent film, AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL. Far out!
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