Category: Film

'Love Bites': Watch a 38-minute documentary about Morrissey fans from 1995

‘Love Bites’: Watch a 38-minute documentary about Morrissey fans from 1995

It’s no secret that Morrissey fans are among the most devoted in modern music, which is why this is such a delightful find: “Love Bites,” a 38-minute documentary about the ex-Smiths frontman’s fans from 1995, filmed largely on Moz’s “Boxers” tour of the U.K. that February.

Watch the BBC's 'The Clash: New Year's Day ′77’ — featuring unseen live footage

Watch the BBC’s ‘The Clash: New Year’s Day ′77’ — featuring unseen live footage

On New Year’s Day, the UK’s BBC Four aired a new 75-minute documentary called “The Clash: New Year’s Day ’77” put together by filmmaker Julien Temple and built around his own, previously unseen footage of the of the band performing on Jan. 1, 1977, at the Roxy club.

The Sound to collect expanded reissues of first 3 albums, BBC live disc in new box set

The Sound to collect expanded reissues of first 3 albums, BBC live disc in new box set

Acclaimed if overlooked U.K. postpunk act The Sound will be the subject of a new box set next month from Demon Music Group that will collect expanded editions of the band’s first three albums, released between 1980 and 1982, along with a fourth disc featuring two BBC live concerts recorded in 1981 and 1985.

Public Image Ltd. making career-spanning documentary, asks fans for photos, footage

Public Image Ltd. making career-spanning documentary, asks fans for photos, footage

Public Image Ltd. is working on a “comprehensive, career-spanning” documentary about itself, and is turning to fans to help track down “never before seen” photographs as well as rare film and video footage of John Lydon and Co. from any time period of the group’s career.

Steve Kilbey releases 3-hour film documenting 1991 U.S. tour with Grant McLennan

Steve Kilbey releases 3-hour film documenting 1991 U.S. tour with Grant McLennan

The Church’s Steve Kilbey dropped a New Year’s surprise for fans, releasing a nearly 3-hour documentary that features performances, interviews and “general horsing around” that he filmed during the short 1991 U.S. tour by Jack Frost, his group with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens.

'My Secret World' to tell story of indie-pop label Sarah Records — watch the trailer

‘My Secret World’ to tell story of indie-pop label Sarah Records — watch the trailer

Sarah Records — which released music from bands such as The Field Mice, Another Sunny Day and Boyracer between 1987 and 1995 — is the subject of a new feature-length documentary that aims to show how “you can run a successful business without surrendering personal ethics.”

The Stone Roses' 'Made of Stone' film coming to U.S. theaters — and DVD/Blu-ray

The Stone Roses’ ‘Made of Stone’ film coming to U.S. theaters — and DVD/Blu-ray

The Stone Roses reunion hasn’t made much of a splash on these shores, with just a pair of U.S. performances from the band at Coachella. But American fans will get a closer glimpse when the documentary “The Stone Roses: Made of Stone” screens in theaters next month and the gets a DVD/Blu-ray release,

'Wax Trax! Records: The Documentary': Watch first trailer for upcoming film

‘Wax Trax! Records: The Documentary’: Watch first trailer for upcoming film

As we first reported back in February, legendary industrial label Wax Trax! Records is the subject of an upcoming documentary that promises to chronicle the “rise and fall” of the record store turned label via artist and employee interviews, home video clips and never-before-seen footage from the Wax Trax! vault.

Video: Morrissey, 'Everyday is Like Sunday' — from 'Morrissey 25: Live' concert film

Video: Morrissey, ‘Everyday is Like Sunday’ — from ‘Morrissey 25: Live’ concert film

Morrissey’s new concert film “Morrissey 25: Live” hits theaters beginning Aug. 29, and, after seeing the trailer a few weeks ago, now we get a glimpse at the first full performance from the film via this cilp of “Everyday is Like Sunday” that the NME premiered today.

Banshees' Steven Severin scoring new animated haunted house doc 'Borley Rectory'

Banshees’ Steven Severin scoring new animated haunted house doc ‘Borley Rectory’

Steven Severin these days devotes himself to making new music for old movies, composing and performing scores for decades-old silent films. Now, though, he’s providing the score to “Borley Rectory,” an animated documentary about the “most famous haunted house in England.”

'The Mojo Manifesto': Get your first glimpse of upcoming Mojo Nixon documentary

‘The Mojo Manifesto’: Get your first glimpse of upcoming Mojo Nixon documentary

The folks at Freedom Records & Films are in the process of putting together a documentary on Mojo Nixon, that one-of-a-kind loud-mouthed rocker who rose to semi-fame in the late ’80s with singles “Elvis is Everywhere” and “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child.”

Vintage Video: Tears For Fears, 'In My Mind's Eye' — watch out-of-print 1984 concert film

Vintage Video: Tears For Fears, ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ — watch out-of-print 1984 concert film

For this week’s Vintage Video, we again look to rescue a classic-period concert film from VHS obscurity, this time presenting, in full, the out-of-print Tears For Fears home video “In My Mind’s Eye: Live at Hammersmith Odeon,” a concert filmed in London in December 1983 and released in 1984.

'Morrissey 25: Live': Watch the trailer for Moz's Hollywood High School concert film

‘Morrissey 25: Live’: Watch the trailer for Moz’s Hollywood High School concert film

The first glimpse of Morrissey’s upcoming concert film “Morrissey 25: Live” hit the web in the form of a minute-long trailer put together by the film’s theatrical distributor SpectiCast, which is marketing the “immersive cinematic concert experience” as being available to screen in theaters beginning Aug. 29.