The Broadway musical The Outsiders will celebrate its official opening night this week and the production has released a stunning set of photos.
24.03.2024 - 21:39 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Music movies are having a moment — if, indeed, they ever stopped having one. Take the pop-music biopic.
There are times, like right now, when it surges in popularity, yet the form has never gone out of style. And music documentaries, a staple of the indie-film world, have only proliferated in the streaming era.
This means they have to compete for visibility, but a ton of them are getting made and (mostly) getting seen. They’ve become a happy epidemic.
A few, like “Amy” or “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?,” are popular and vital enough to have carved out a place in the culture — and, in the case of both those films, to have inspired the creation of a biopic (the upcoming Amy Winehouse drama “Back to Black,” and the Bee Gees film that Ridley Scott is now set to direct). I have it on good authority that when you’re trying to put together a music documentary, the prospect of it spawning a biopic can be a key selling point.
Yet the fact that so many music docs are niche films is, in truth, all to the good. For really, how could it be otherwise? Rare subjects like the Beatles are universal (or close enough to it), but not everyone wants to seek out a documentary about Sparks (“The Sparks Brothers”) or ZZ Top (“ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas”) or the Go-Go’s (“The Go-Go’s”) or Blood, Sweat & Tears (“What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?”) or Gordon Lightfoot (“Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read Me Mind”) or Sinéad O’Connor (“Nothing Compares”) or David Bowie (“Moonage Daydream”) or Tiny Tim (“Tiny Tim: King for a Day”) or the Grateful Dead (“Long Strange Trip”) or Nina Simone (“What Happened, Miss Simone?”) or the Velvet Underground (“The Velvet Underground”)
.The Broadway musical The Outsiders will celebrate its official opening night this week and the production has released a stunning set of photos.
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