Dave Alvin

A documentary about legendary San Diego-based, roots rock band, THE BEAT FARMERS featuring interviews with members Jerry Raney, Joey Harris, Buddy Blue, Rolle Love, and Country Dick Montana, plus Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Harry Shearer, Dr. Demento, and Mojo Nixon (among others).

A journey into the world of well-traveled singer-songwriters like Peter Case, Mary Gauthier, Chris Smither, Dave Alvin, Slaid Cleaves and many more. The film contains live performances of 40 brilliantly crafted songs, as well as informal moments and interviews in which the artists reflect on audiences, songwriting, the music business, and life.

Haggard actually lived the rambling, gambling, love ‘em and leave ‘em, often brutal life that remains the bedrock of country music lyrics – he hopped his first freight train at the age of 10, became a chronic truant and drinker and was locked up some 17 times as a youngster. Serious criminal charges followed, including car theft. He was, literally, in the inmate audience in 1959, when Johnny Cash gave his New Year’s Day concert in San Quentin – and, as he’s said repeatedly, “my life changed forever.”

A biographical study of seminal punk blues singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band the Gun Club.

Hootenanny can best be described as a roots, rockabilly, blues, punk lifestyle event with an edge. It is the premier Americana event. Hootenanny merges the primordial roots of rockabilly, blues and swing with the counterculture it has spawned amongst generation Xeres of today. Its eclectic mix of the innovators and originators affords it the honor of being one of the biggest and most anticipated events of the year. Artists include Joe Strummer, Rocket From the Crypt, Nekromantix, Cadillac Tramps, John Doe, The Blasters, The Paladins, Hot Rod Lincoln, Lee Rocker, James Intveld, Dave Alvin, Junior Brown, Tex and the Horseheads, Russell Scott, Manic Hispanic, Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords.

Short documentary about the making of Cry-Baby (1990).

A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.

FBI特別捜査官チェット・デズモンドは町のウエートレス、テレサ・バンクスの殺害事件を調査中に謎の失踪を遂げる。それから1年後、町全体に巣くった邪悪な者達は学園の女王であるローラ・パーマーを標的にし始めていた。時を同じくして、テレサ・バンクス殺害事件の捜査を引き継いだ特別捜査官デイル・クーパーは、彼に備わった特別な才能、鋭い第六感を生かして深い謎を解明しようと決意するのだった。

Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema, Allison Anders made her debut, alongside codirectors and fellow UCLA film school students Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends (John Doe of the band X; Chris Shearer). With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscapes, captured in evocative 16mm black and white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film explosion in America.

人気ロック歌手のエレン・エイムが地元で凱旋ライブ中にストリートギャング“ボンバーズ”に拉致される。ダイナーを営む彼女のファンのリーヴァは、かつて地元で鳴らしたワルで、今は流れ者の弟トムに助けを求める。トムは、陸軍あがりの女兵士マッコイを相棒に、ボンバーズのアジトを急襲しエレンを救い出す。 実は二人はかつて恋仲だったが、エレンが歌手を目指すために心ならずも別れていた。しかし今回の救出をきっかけにトムとエレンの間にふたたび愛の炎が燃え上がる。一方、エレンを連れ去られたボンバーズのボス、レイヴェンはボンバーズを率いて街を襲撃しようとしていた。レイヴェンはトムに一騎打ちを申し出、トムも受けて立つ。