"Born In Chicago" is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It’s the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta and their ardent and unexpected followers – young white, middle class kids who followed this evocative music to smoky clubs deep in Chicago’s ghettos. There, against all odds, they were encouraged by the greats who had became their musical mentors and learned the art of the blues at the feet the masters, going on to make the music their own.
Documental sobre el famoso festival de Woodstock que tuvo lugar en Bethel, NY. En agosto de 1969, 450.000 personas asistieron al mayor festival de música rock hasta la fecha. "Woodstock", ganadora del Oscar de la Academia, fue un acontecimiento que dio nombre a una generación y marcó a toda una época. "Woodstock, 3 días de paz y música: el montaje del director" (Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music: The Director's Cut) de 225 minutos de duración, cuenta con imágenes restauradas y con sonido digital. Además, ofrece 40 minutos adicionales de imágenes nunca vistas en la película inicial, que fueron integradas en el film por el propio director Michael Wadleigh. Un joven Martin Scorsese fue asistente del director y ayudó en el montaje de este aclamado e histórico documental. (FILMAFFINITY)
Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LPs. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Credence Clearwater Revival. It was mainly the music and some shots out of a car, landscapes out of the car window. And it had a little bit of commentary – dialogue between Peter and me about American music and about how American rock music was about emotion and images instead of sounds. That is to say, about a kind of phenomenon, that it was in a way a kind of film music, but without a moving picture. It was a 12-minute film and it was never shown. – Wim Wenders
