Chip Monck

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.

It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. 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.

A "documentary" about the major influence that a '60s rock singer named Bruno has had on rock music, as attested to by such rock legends as Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson and the Bee Gees, among others.

人類が初めて月を歩いた。ニューヨーク・メッツがワールドシリーズで奇跡の優勝を果たした。そしてニューヨーク郊外のベセルでは、3日間にわたり50万人もの若者が、彼らの世代を何よりも象徴するイベントに参加した――それは規模においても影響力においても前代未聞のコンサート、平和と音楽という旗印の下にあらゆる階層の人々が集い、一つとなった瞬間だった。彼らはそれをウッドストックと呼んだ。それから1年後、その音楽のエッセンスやしびれるようなパフォーマンス、それらを生で味わった人々の感動が、オスカーを獲得した記念碑的ドキュメンタリーの中で甦る。