Recent music films

[Nano]

Last April we had a new edition of Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, the second since I joined their staff. Being that I had something to do with the movies picked for our music section, I list them here in case someone's interested:

-CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTAMBUL (Fatih Akin, Germany 2005) documentary on Turkish contemporary music

-THE NOMI SONG (Andrew Horn, Germany 2004) documentary on Klaus Nomi

-ARGENTINA BEAT (Hernán Gaffet, Argentina 2006) documentary on Argentine pop music in the Sixties

-METAL: A HEADBANGER'S JOURNEY (Sam Dunn, Scott McFayden, Jessica Joy Wise; Canada 2005) documentary on heavy metal

-DIVINA LLUZ (Ramon Lluis Bande, Spain 2005) documentary on Spanish alt pop band Mus

-THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (Jeff Feuerzeig, USA 2005) documentary on D.J.

-LAST DAYS (Gus Van Sant, USA 2004) feature

-PUNK: ATTITUDE (Don Letts, USA 2005) documentary on punk music over the years

-SAMBA ON YOUR FEET (Eduardo Montes-Bradley, USA-Argentina 2005) documentary on Brazilian music

-LOMAX: THE SONGHUNTER (Rogier Kappiers, Netherlands 2005) documentary on Alan Lomax

-SCREAMING MASTERPIECE (Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, Iceland-Denmark-Netherlands 2004) documentary on Iceland music

-MARIA BETHANIA: MUSICA É PERFUME (Georges Gachot, Switzerland-France 2005) documentary on M.B.

Here's a link with reviews of the films, both in Spanish and English:

http://www.bafici.gov.ar/peliculas_s...nes2.php?id=23

[JussiK]

Don't forget IBERIA by Carlos Saura (2005), an non-narrative film of flamenco performances. The styles shown vary from traditional to street/hiphop, and the visual style is absolutely stunning. Dancers glide across the frame solo or in formations, against single colored canvases, sometimes red, green or flaming orange, sometimes alive with the performer's image, projected in a second's delay and creating a strange dreamlike effect. Was there any sense in the Oscars committee this film would have gained 1st prize in every single gategory.