It's time for Northwest Film Center's annual festival of music and movies, Reel Music 37. NWFC's Ben Popp tells us all about it. / Audio
It's time for Northwest Film Center's annual Reel Music Festival, this the 37th!
In the Artichoke Café here at Artichoke Music, 2007 SE Powell Boulevard, we’re talking music movies. Not musicals. And not Cats, but the Northwest Film Center’s annual Reel Music Festival.
This year it runs from Friday, January 24 through Sunday, February 16 and it’s got some old favorites among the new films which are all about music.
With me in the Café today is Ben Popp, Filmmaker Services Manager & Programmer who had a hand in curating this year's films.
He’s here to tell us all about the films in the festival and what goes into choosing them.
I know one thing, I can’t wait to see The Harder They Come on the big screen again, just like I did at midnight when it first came out.
Meet Ben Popp.
Find out about the films below, with links, etc but first listen to NWFC's Ben Popp, Filmmaker Services Manager & Programmer who had a hand in curating this year's films. Or do it the other way around. Whatever you like.
Directed by Daniel Roher
This Scorsese-produced love letter sits down with frontman Robbie Robertson, who reminisces about The Band’s career as both Bob Dylan’s …
One of the greatest concert films ever made sees The Band teaming up with a slew of like-minded heavy hitters …
Directed by Vasco Viana, Rita Maia
This pulsating film tracks the musical explorations of a crew of Lisbon music producers from diverse backgrounds—immigrants from Angola, São …
Directed by Brent Hodge
In this hilarious, unpredictable mystery-doc, Ben Sisto digs deep into the origins of the Baha Men’s 2000 global-smash track “Who …
Directed by Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
This unbelievable two-day gospel concert film sees Aretha Franklin at her captivating best—and will come to be known as one …
Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
This tragic, harrowing film follows the Rolling Stones on their 1969 US tour, which ended with the violent debacle at …
Directed by Perry Henzell
Reggae star Jimmy Cliff stars in this unforgettable film that introduced the effervescent, uplifting music to the West and became …
Directed by Peter Michael Dowd
As a teenager Akio Sakurai, the son of a Tokyo kimono tailor, became obsessed with Led Zeppelin. He carried the …
Directed by Kenny Dalsheimer
This loving portrait of old-time music pioneer Alice Gerrard, replete with performances from her long career and interviews with key …
Directed by Puloma Basu, Rob Hatch-Miller
Forward-thinking NYC institution Other Music—known for their plucky spirit and encyclopedic knowledge (and stocking) of outside-the-mainstream music—is the focus of …
Directed by Andrew Elizaga, Tia Young
Crowned “Seattle’s First Lady of Gospel,” by the Seattle Times, Reverend Patrinell “Pat” Wright left the segregated South in 1964 …
Directed by Various
The Northwest has a strong tradition in music video creation, and we celebrate it with an evening of music videos …
Directed by Marco Porsia
Michael Gira and his band Swans are one of industrial music’s heaviest and most emotionally shattering groups. Filmmaker Porsia went …
Directed by Isabelle Dupuis, Tim Geraghty
In 1974, outsider musician Peter Grudzien made the first openly-gay country album, pressing 500 copies and selling few. Rediscovered in …