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18. PERFORMANCE (1970; Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg)
Solely occupying his time with sex and drugs, a faded rock star (Mick Jagger) finds his unlikely muse in a violent hoodlum (James Fox) who's elected to hide out from irate mobsters in the musician's home.
Crazy Horse: Before Elvis, his Performance star Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page or Marilyn Manson, the late Scottish director/artist Donald Cammell was the counterculture's original bad-ass and occultist, and Performance is the brilliant rendering of his dark fantasies. Many staples of rock 'n' roll fantasy -- cohabiting with two chicks, devotion to Aleister Crowley, glam aesthetics, drug discovery -- were Cammell's reality. This not only features proto-hip-hop in the score (The Last Poets), but it's responsible for about 30 years of Cool Britannia cinema -- especially the likes of Layer Cake and Guy Ritchie's entire career.
Shapiro: Performance finally came out on DVD a couple of months ago, so let me regain my composure while I check it off my "must have" list. Space limitations prevent me from summarizing its bizarre plot, so suffice it to say that it can rather tidily be pigeonholed into the "crime film/rock star/shape-shifting/mushroom-munching/black-magic-and-groupie-sex" genre we all know and love.
19. WE JAM ECONO: THE STORY OF THE MINUTEMEN (2005; Tim Irwin)
Childhood chums hang together to eventually position themselves as one of the most promising punk outfits of the '80s.
Schacht: Of all the bands to emerge from the early 1980s' second-wave punk explosion, San Pedro's The Minutemen were the most intriguing. This documentary collects archival footage and current interviews with surviving band members Mike Watt and George Hurley, among others involved in that fertile scene. A portrait emerges of an extraordinarily talented punk band that expanded the genre's definition by incorporating funk, jazz, surf and Mexican influences until The Minutemen's bright future was cut short by the death of guitarist D. Boon.
Mills: Powered by emotional spiels from bassist Mike Watt as well as astounding live footage, it's also the story of the Amerindie underground's coming of age in the 1980s.
20. STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN (2002; Paul Justman)
Basically Berry Gordy's "house band" during the heyday of the Detroit sound, a group of unknown musicians collectively known as The Funk Brothers back up such luminaries as Smokey Robinson, The Supremes and Marvin Gaye as they produce hit after hit between 1959 and 1972.
Brunson: Rich anecdotes spun by the surviving musicians are mixed with archival photos, a few dramatic recreations, and footage from a reunion concert in which The Funk Brothers play Motown classics fronted by the likes of Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins and Joan Osborne (soaring through a lovely version of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted").
Crazy Horse: A beautiful elegy to Motown's true heart and soul -- the mostly deceased musicians who made magic in Studio A. One viewing of this rock doc, and you'll never dispute that The Funk Brothers are the greatest band in history.
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