A boy crosses into the Land of the Dead on Dia de los Muertos to find his musician ancestor.
Disney's Serengeti coming-of-age classic (1994).
Fricke's 42-minute IMAX debut: time-lapse from the Egyptian desert to Manhattan, scored by Michael Stearns, with no dialogue and no narration at all.
Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass across twenty years and no dialogue at all: life out of balance, in transformation, and as war.
Reggio and Glass leave the industrial world for Brazil, Nepal and India; it opens on the Serra Pelada gold mine.
Life as war, assembled almost entirely from digitally processed stock footage, with Yo-Yo Ma on cello over the Glass score.
Two South Africans hunt for Rodriguez, a Detroit singer they think is dead.
No words, Philip Glass and time-lapse cities; life out of balance.
A jazz teacher dies before his big gig and argues his way back from the Great Before.
Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.
A young drummer and his ruthless mentor collide (2014).
The backing singers behind Bowie, the Stones and Ray Charles, and why the front of the stage never happened.
The pianist at eighty, playing and talking, filmed across Europe and America.
The violinist teaches in Beijing and Shanghai in 1979, three years after the Cultural Revolution ended.
Ali against Foreman in Kinshasa, 1974, with the Zaire 74 festival playing beside the fight.
Jacques d’Amboise teaches a thousand New York schoolchildren to dance, and films what it does to them.
The chorus of the San Francisco Opera, who sing every night and are never the ones being watched.
Bob Dylan from the Village to Newport 1965, with Chalamet singing it himself.
The clarinettist who walked away from the biggest band in America and never went back.
Johnny Cash from Folsom Prison back to Sun Records, sung by the actors themselves.
A concert pianist visits the daughter she left; Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in one long night.
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival footage found after fifty years; Questlove's Oscar.
The Band's farewell concert with Dylan, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell; Scorsese in 1976.
Three days of peace and music in 1969, in split screen; Scorsese edited.
Bob Dylan on his 1965 tour of England, with the cue-card video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
The Rolling Stones at Altamont and the stabbing caught on camera.
The Harlem drag balls of the 1980s and the houses that voguing came from.
Talking Heads in Los Angeles in 1983 and the big suit; the best concert film.
Amy Winehouse in home videos and voicemails; Asif Kapadia's archive method again.
Donald Glover manages his rapper cousin; the series that could be anything each week.
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