Best of John Williams

Born in the U.S. in 1932. Won five Oscars for the scores of Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Schindler's List. The most famous composer…

Music by John Williams

John Williams, the king of film music composers, gets the golden Hollywood treatment in this elegant, adoring documentary. Don’t look for any revelations of a thrilling personal life, aside from…

Little Richard: I Am Everything

His sexuality and the color of his skin made it easy for people to underestimate Little Richard throughout his career, but those two aspects of his life mattered a great…

I Am Celine Dion

I’m not sure what kind of movie Irene Taylor was set on doing when she agreed to this documentary; she had no idea that Celine Dion was sick. The final…

Let It Be

It faced a lot of skepticism, this documentary that arrived at a time when The Beatles were winding down as a band, but has been reevaluated since and was treated…

Moonage Daydream: Journey Into Bowie

Photo: Neon It wasn’t until a few years ago that I heard of a concept called paracosm. That’s a term for a sort of world-building that you do in your…

The Beatles: Get Back

Covering The Beatles at work on their final studio album, the 1970 documentary Let It Be depicted a band on the verge of breaking up, ending with the now legendary,…

Yung Lean: In My Head 

A documentary from music journalist and filmmaker Henrik Burman in the vein of Avicii: True Stories (2017), which also depicted a Swedish talent who found success abroad but came to…

Bohemian Rhapsody 

This biopic of the legendary rock band Queen and its singer Freddie Mercury was long in the making and suffered from a troubled production. The final results aren’t exactly bad,…