Released
CAN: The Documentary
January 1 1999 (almost 26 years ago)Rating
65
Based on
2 reviews
- Directors: Hannes Rossacher, Rudi Dolezal
- Genres: Documentary, Music
- Runtime: 1 h 27 m
- Countries: Austria, United Kingdom
- Company: DoRo Productions
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.
