Planet Rock - Lonn M. Friend Introduction
2025 : 1 minute
This video is only available with Night Flight+.
Director: Lonn M. Friend
synopsis
Night Flight Plus is excited to invite you to Planet Rock! Watch exclusive interviews with rock luminaries at their most candid, in conversation with esteemed rock writer and Rip Magazine editor Lonn M. Friend. This is Lonn's introduction to the 2025 original Night Flight series.
recommended
The Space Movie
Tony Palmer's 1979 documentary "The Space Movie" -- featuring a soundtrack by Mike Oldfield -- was distributed to theaters via Night Flight's founder Stuart Shapiro's International Ha...Read More
Out of Time: The Material Issue Story
Out of Time: The Material Issue Story examines the tragic story of a rock band on the cusp of superstardom cut short by front man Jim Ellison’s suicide. The film tells the story of Ma...Read More
Messiah of Evil
A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blo...Read More
Liquid Sky
The essential document of New York’s 1980s New Wave scene and the archetypal "Midnight Movie" from director Slava Tsukerman returns home to Night Flight. In what is one of the most de...Read More
Arise! The SubGenius Movie
The Church of the SubGenius recruitment movie, "Arise!," was written and edited to work as a documentary feature film, or as twenty separate stand-alone two-to-ten-minute excerpts. Ni...Read More
Uncle Sam
The Star-Spangled Shocker From The Creators Of MANIAC COP! It’s Fourth Of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper – killed by ‘friendly fire’ during the fi...Read More
Day of the Dead
In this the third film in the continuing saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Sur...Read More
Brainiac - Transmissions After Zero
In the mid 90's the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz from the influential indie rock being produced there (The Breeders, Guided by Voices). Arguably ...Read More
DisinfoCon - Kenneth Anger
Experimental filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger's discusses the work of Aleister Crowley at Richard Metzger's DisinfoCon, 2000.
We Were Famous, You Don't Remember: The Embarrassment
Ignited by punk’s invasion of the Great Plains, America’s gawkiest and greatest lost rock band battles conformity in Reagan-era Kansas. The Embarrassment played Chicago, D.C., and New...Read More
Skateboard: The Movie
Skateboard was the first feature film to depict the height of the 70s skateboard craze. Many refer to it as the Bad News Bears of the sport. It’s star studded cast includes Alan Garfi...Read More
Kraftwerk and The Electronic Revolution
As innovative as they are influential, Kraftwerk's contribution to the development of electronic music since their formation in 1970 remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from...Read More
Fugazi - Instrument
Instrument is a collaboration between filmmaker Jem Cohen and the Washington D.C. band Fugazi, covering the 10 year period of 1987-1996. Far from a traditional documentary, this is a ...Read More
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever
Night Flight Plus is proud to present "1982: GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER!" in its original, unedited feature length form for the first time on streaming! This epic documentary spotlights ...Read More
The Cure: Rock Case Studies '79-89
Featuring performance footage and commentary from musicians, fans and critics, this in-depth analysis of alternative rock band the Cure examines the influence of the unique group that...Read More
Nightbreed
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he’ll hide by crossing the th...Read More