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Jimi Plays Monterey
7.5

Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.

Jimi Plays Monterey

1987
Depeche Mode 101
8.0

A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour.

Depeche Mode 101

1989
Medicating Normal
9.5

One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric drug, including millions of children. Pharmaceutical companies have over-hyped the benefits of these drugs, while hiding the risks and severe side effects including physiological dependence. "Medicating Normal" explores what happens when for- profit medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

Medicating Normal

2020
Shake! Otis at Monterey
7.2

Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd that is leaving -- until Redding grabs them with his charged rendition of "Shake." Redding's performance also includes "Respect" (which he wrote), "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Satisfaction," and "Try a Little Tenderness." Tragically, Redding died in a plane crash six months later. An innovative filmmaker who started in the 1950s making experimental films, Pennebaker garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 1993 for The War Room, his behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. His other subjects have included Norman Mailer, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie.

Shake! Otis at Monterey

1987
The Gates of Hell
4.3

Five adventurous filmmakers set out to make an online interactive movie exploring the nature of evil. But soon they find themselves the subject of their own intentions, as they accidentally uncover the heinous truth that has been secretly hidden in the bowels of Von Diebitsch Manor for generations.

The Gates of Hell

2008
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
7.5

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.

Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'

1983
Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
N/A

Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl

1989
Hate Rising with Jorge Ramos
N/A

Inspired by an incident in which Jorge Ramos was ejected from a Donald Trump press conference, the Mexican-born journalist examines a movement led by white nationalists emboldened by the Trump campaign. An intimate portrait of our country emerges offering firsthand accounts of everyday Americans.

Hate Rising with Jorge Ramos

2016
Floodstage
10.0

The adventures of a traveling troupe of entertainers who raft along the Mississippi River, stopping at towns along the way to present their tent show.

Floodstage

1986