http://www.blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/ DVD Reviews from Blurt en-us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:12:24 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/159/ (Eagle Rock)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY A.D. AMOROSI   Audiences today who never witnessed Talking Heads at their full force might miss the nuances yet there a huge differences between the David Byrne of today and the band he helped form despite the fact that Ride Rise Roar looks mostly at the Byrne/Eno/Heads period that made them infamous.   Th ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/159/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/158/ (Eagle Vision; 125 mins)   www.eaglerockent.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   What's Fleetwood Mac without Lindsey Buckingham? Good question, considering what became of the band's innocuous incarnation that followed in the wake of his departure. On the other hand, some might ask what's Lindsey Buckingham without Fleetwood Mac? Despite some sumptuous solo album ]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/158/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/157/ (Eagle Rock; 85 mins)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY RON HART     I have a couple of problems with the deluxe edition of the Rolling Stones' 1978 rude boy classic Some Girls (reviewed elsewhere on the BLURT website).   First, why did the powers that be behind this reissue, namely Mick and Keith themselves, choose to go with the "PARDON OUR ]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/157/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/156/ (Start Productions, UK)www.startproductions.co.uk   BY JUD COST The early-'70s would have been impossible without the blistering sound of Mott The Hoople to numb the pain of the mass exodus of the Beatles, Doors and Jefferson Airplane. This near-perfect 101-minute documentary leaves no stone unturned in the tale of the band that heavily influenced the Sex Pistols ]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/156/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/155/ (Eagle Rock; 162 mins)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY DAVID ISKRA   Peter Gabriel is a man in love with technology.  Like the rest of us he is a big kid who likes to play with shiny new toys. From sequencers and production tricks, his forward thinking has brought us new sounds and his early forays into multimedia and virtual reality were ahead of th ]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/155/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/154/ (Invincible Pictures, 103 mins.)   www.invinciblepictures.com   BY JONAH FLICKER   A Serbian Film's director, Srdjan Spasojevic, was bestowed a rare honor after the film was screened a few years ago at a festival in Spain - a charge of exhibiting child pornography and an arrest warrant issued by a Spanish prosecutor. Defenders of free speech and fell ]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/154/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/153/ (Caldo Verde; 116 mins.) www.caldoverderecords.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   It's noted on the back cover of this DVD that Mark Kozelek -- he of the Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon and his own somber solo efforts -- is "an artist often thought of as taciturn." Really? Ya think? Given his penchant for brooding melancholia and low-cast meanderings, that statement ]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/153/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/152/ (Sexy Intellectual; 155 mins.)   www.chromedreams.co.uk   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   At 2 ½ hours in duration, Robert Plant's Blue Note seems long. Very long in fact. It takes 45 minutes before Led Zeppelin even enters the picture, for gosh sakes. Then again, considering the fact that this narrative, which covers the evolution of Bobby Plant's musical ]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/152/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/151/ (E1 Entertainment, 117 mins.)   www.e1distribution.com   BY JASON GROSS   If you don't know the subject of this rockumentary, we feel sorry for you. This metal God and Motorhead leader was shadowed for three years by the filmmakers, who gathered hosannas from most of the original Guns N' Roses, Dave Grohl and Metallica (the last two shown collabor ]]> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/151/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/150/ BY JONAH FLICKER   Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is perhaps better known for his more serious, political films dealing with venerable topics like criminal justice (The Thin Blue Line), war (The Fog of War), and the death penalty (Mr. Death). But even in these movies, his fascination with the oddities of the human condition is evident. After all, this is the man ]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/150/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/149/ (Cat & Docs; 72 minutes) www.balladofgenesisandladyjaye.com BY LOGAN K. YOUNG I typically detest self-referential ledes, but back in the autumn of 2007, I posted the following bad news: "Psychic TV's Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer) died suddenly at her home on Tuesday, October 9 from a previously undiagnosed heart condition. The condition is thoug ]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/149/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/148/ (Spitfire Pictures)   www.spitfirepictures.com   BY JOHN B. MOORE   It's going to take a dead hooker in the trunk of his car for Dave Grohl to finally shake his "nicest guy in rock" image.   On Back and Forth, a documentary following the founding of the Foo Fighters up through the recording of their latest full length Wasting Light, Grohl talks ]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/148/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/147/ (Oscilloscope Laboratories)   www.oscilloscope.net   BY SELENA FRAGASSI   At the opening of Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour, keyboardist/vocalist JD Samson is seen launching a toy missile rocket into the clear blue sky above a deadpan street - one of many the band traversed in 2004 when they collected the meat of the footage that makes up this lo ]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/147/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/146/ (MVD, 57 mins.)   www.mvdb2b.com   BY RANDY HARWARD   In A History Lesson Part 1: Punk Rock In Los Angeles in 1984 director Dave Travis concerns himself with psychedelic punk rock, not trad punk, as the title implies. Not that the bands covered (Meat Puppets, the Minutemen, Redd Kross, Twisted Roots), despite having clear punk qualities, ever consi ]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/146/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/144/ (Eagle Vision; 120 mins)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY FRED MILLS   Paint it black, you devils.   Primal Scream fans unlucky enough not to be able to attend the British band's pair of Screamadelica concerts last November 26 and 27 in London were still served reasonably well, first by the BBC (which aired most of first evening live) and later by asso ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/144/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/143/ (Vanguard Records; 120 minutes)   www.vanguardrecords.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   Reports on Levon Helm's imminent demise are obviously exaggerated, if the visual and audio evidence provided by Ramble At The Ryman is any indication. Rumors were rife that the 71-year old singer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist was suffering from assorted age-associated ]]> Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/143/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/142/ (Highway 61 Entertainment; 110 mins.) www.highway61ent.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   Bob Dylan remains Rock's greatest enigma, so when director Joel Gilbert sets out to unmask his subject, the quest turns somewhat Quixotic. After all, critics and fans have made the same attempt for the better part of Dylan's 50-year career, but no one's yet to establish anythi ]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/142/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/141/ (WDR Media/SPV; 113 mins.)   www.spv.de   BY REV. KEITH A. GORDON   I'll tally not a moment to consider this, nor brook any argument otherwise, but Spirit was the great lost band of the 1960s.   The band was formed in 1967 by five talented musicians that had healthy mixed backgrounds in folk, jazz, blues, and rock, and their unique musical ch ]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/141/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/140/ BY A.D. AMOROSI   Both film and soundtrack demands an uncommon level of attention throughout its viewing and listening. Documentary by director Gerardine Wurzburg; soundtrack produced and co-written by J. Ralph.    The isolation of autism - that there is little intelligence or artistic drive amongst the stricken, that they can not live outside their he ]]> Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/140/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/139/ (Eagle Rock Entertainment; 125 mins)   www.eaglerockent.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   It would seem a formidable task to encapsulate two decades' worth of music into a pair of discs and two dozen tracks. Yet, Marillion's latest live entry makes the case that at least it's a worthy ambition. In summing up Marillion's progress following the transition from o ]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/139/