“Born in Chicago”: A uniquely musical passing of the blues torch
Born In Chicago is a powerful, soulful and uplifting story that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch from the first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the...
View ArticlePaul Thomas Anderson’s “Junun” documentary on Jonny Greenwood and Israeli...
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of Night Flight’s favorite directors, and we recently read that his next film is actually going to be an intimate documentary about Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and his trip...
View Article“Blood on the Mountain”: West Virginia coal mining film wins Best Documentary...
The Workers Unite Film Festival (WUFF) have announced the winners in their 4th annual celebration of labor films across the globe, and this year, taking the top honors for winner of Best Documentary...
View Article“All Things Must Pass”: The Explosive Trajectory, Tragic Demise & Legacy Of...
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records — which premiered on March 17, 2015, at SXSW in Austin, Texas – is a feature documentary film examining the explosive trajectory, tragic...
View ArticleStrange Rumblings in Aztlan: Hunter S. Thompson remembers Ruben Salazar
If you’re a fan of Hunter S. Thompson’s writing, you may already be familiar with his article “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” an exposé about the death of Chicano journalist Ruben Salazar, who was...
View ArticleHendrix at the Atlanta Pop Festival, July 1970: Showtime premiering the “Jimi...
Tonight, Friday, September 4 (9pm ET/PT), the Showtime cable channel will be airing Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, a new documentary unveiling previously-unseen footage of Jimi Hendrix’s seminal...
View Article“Records Collecting Dust”: A vinyl record doc about the music that changed...
Written and directed by San Diego-based musician and filmmaker Jason Blackmore, the hour-long documentary Records Collecting Dust documents the vinyl record collections, origins, and holy grails of...
View ArticleThe Screamers: The Great Lost Band of the First Wave of L.A. Punk
Being ahead of your time can be a risky career move. Take the case of the Screamers. When punk rock hit Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, there was no band bigger than the Screamers. They could sell out...
View ArticleThe long-awaited Frank Zappa film “Roxy: The Movie” to be released next month
Next month, on October 30th, we’ll finally see the long-anticipated release of Roxy: The Movie, — from the Eagle Rock Entertainment company, working with Zappa’s Honker Home Video — featuring Zappa and...
View Article“To Scale: The Solar System”: We are on a little blue marble floating in the...
In this engaging short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, “To Scale: The Solar System,” a group of friends are shown building the first accurate-to-scale model of the solar system in the Black...
View Article“Listen, Whitey!” author Pat Thomas talks about the new Black Panthers doc,...
With the recent September 4th theatrical release of the Stanley Nelson-directed documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Night Flight thought we’d reach out to our friend, esteemed...
View Article“Roger Waters The Wall”: A personal and political statement of genius
“Went to see Roger Waters The Wall last night at 42nd St AMC and was blown away… has to be one of the greatest Rock and Roll Docs of all time. Don’t miss if it is playing anywhere near you again on the...
View Article“The American Dreamer”: A newly-restored print of the 1971 Dennis Hopper...
A new digitally-restored print of photographer/journalist Lawrence Schiller’s and filmmaker L.M. Kit Carson’s 1971 documentary portrait of the iconic American actor/director Dennis Hopper, called The...
View ArticleGodfrey Reggio’s QATSI trilogy: Showing “life out of balance” to Philip...
In the 1980s, Godfrey Reggio’s incredible and powerful QATSI trilogy — Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Noqoyqatsi — presented the idea that humans are out of balance with nature. In fact, the first film...
View ArticlePissing Up A Rope: The “Decline of Western Civilization”
Later on tonight (or early tomorrow morning), TCM, the Turner Classic Movies channel, will be airing the first Decline Of Western Civilization (11:45pm PST on Thursday, Oct. 15th/2:45am EST on Friday,...
View Article“Forever and a Day”: The new Scorpions documentary is now available to watch...
For one and a half years, renowned filmmaker Katja von Garnier accompanied German hard rock veterans the Scorpions on their 2011-2012 Final Sting tour, which you can tell from the name itself was...
View Article“The Yage Letters”: William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg on Ayahuasca’s...
In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, making his hasty escape from Mexico City, where he had been sentenced for the bizarre shooting of...
View ArticleNight Flight Artist Spotlight: Denton, TX-based independent filmmaker Chad...
Recently, Night Flight spoke with Chad Withers, an independent filmmaker and local theater arts teacher, and creator of Native Process Films from Denton, TX, to discuss his latest short documentaries...
View Article“Pioneers: Brian Eno”: Every sound is music
Pioneers: Brian Eno — directed by Phoebe Collins — was first shown on the BBC’s Channel 4 in 1999 on their series called “Music” (some sources say 2000). It featured interviews with David Byrne, David...
View ArticleRemembering Haskell Wexler: The celebrated filmmaker used his art for peace...
We learned yesterday that the celebrated cameraman, cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler died on Sunday, December 27, 2015, age 93. The sad news was passed along by his son Jeff, posting on his...
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