CAN: The Documentary

Name: CAN: The Documentary
Rating: 6.5

Not Rated Documentary Music

Starring: Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Malcolm Mooney, Kris Needs

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
January 1, 1999

Ratings:
6.5 / 10

Director:
Rudi Dolezal & Hannes Rossacher

Companies:
DoRo Productions

Overview

The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.

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