More great news for music documentary fans! Word broke last week that Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese will produce an authorized documentary about the Grateful Dead on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Scorsese has previously been involved in The Band’s “The Last Waltz,” George Harrison’s “Living in the Material World,” “No Direction Home,” about Bob Dylan and, most recently the career-spanning Rolling Stones documentary “Shine A Light.”
HBO will debut the James Brown documentary “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,” on Monday October 27, hot on the heels of the Hollywood’s offering “Get On Up!!”
Looking forward, it would appear Tinseltown has a little something planned for everybody. Aside from the aforementioned Brown bio-pic, 2014 has already seen a Hendrix film featuring Andre 3000, a documentary devoted to Nas’ album Illmatic, which debuted twenty years ago, and "Finding Fela," about the revolutionary African musician. Recently making the festival rounds and readying for wider release are "Take Me To The River", a deep and historically-focused look into the legacy of Memphis labels Stax and Hi Records and ‘The Case of the Three Sided Dream” about jazz legend Rashan Roland Kirk. Upcoming films include documentaries about N.W.A in “NWA: Straight Outta Compton” and “Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound.” See you at the movies!
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