Fall 2005
40 pages tabloid-sized
ROCK AND ROLL GOES TO THE MOVIES
ARTICLES-FEATURES
MISTER ROCK N ROLL: The films of Alan Freed.
ROCK & ROLL STAR AS MATINEE IDOL: Hard Day’s Night ripoffs
ROCK & ROLL STAR AS DEMI-GOD: The satire Privilege
THE CARIBBEAN SOUND: Reggae movies
ROCK AND ROLL STAR AS AUTEUR: Films directed by Bob Dylan (Eat the Document; Renaldo and Clara), Brian Eno (Mistaken Memories Of Mediaeval Manhattan; Thursday Afternoon) and Neil Young (Rust Never Sleeps; Human Highway; Greendale)
ROCK AND ROLL STAR AS COMIC BOOK HERO: Check out Skot Deeming’s hilarious reviews of Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park and Wild Zero
REVIEWS
The Beatles US Visit
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966)
The Rolling Stones: David Faris reviews Rock and Roll Circus (1968); Gordon Phinn reviews Gimme Shelter (1970)
Medicine Ball Caravan (1971)
Christopher Mitchell compares the different versions of Elvis: That’s The Way It Is (1970)
Dion Conflict reviews Pink Floyd in Pompeii
Christopher Mitchell on The Band in Festival Express (2004) and The Last Waltz (1978)
David Faris reviews Wattstax (1973)
Flower power’s last gasp in Rainbow Bridge (1972) and The Day The Music Died (1977)
Punk history is captured in Blank Generation (1976)
Dion Conflict reviews The Punk Rock Movie (1980)
Laurie Anderson’s concert film, Home of the Brave (1986)
The amazing Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains (1981)
The documentary The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years (1988)
Grunge and beyond with Kurt & Courtney (1988)
The excellent Jandek on Corwood (2003)
ESSAYS
Christopher Mitchell, “Music in the Film Rushmore“
David Faris, “Rock and Roll in the Films of Jim Jarmusch”
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