Barry Miles

Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which had a significant impact on the Beatles' music and their evolution during the latter half of the decade.

À l'âge de 14 ans, le réalisateur Nick Broomfield rencontre par hasard le guitariste Brian Jones dans le train. En tant que membre fondateur des Rolling Stones en 1962, Jones était au sommet de son succès, avec le monde à ses pieds. Ce film met en lumière les sept années turbulentes jusqu'en 1969, lorsque Brian Jones doit quitter le groupe. Peu de temps après, il s'est noyé dans sa piscine.

The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.

A definitive landmark series charting the emergence and re-emergence of rock music as a global force, told through the musicians who have shaped this most enduring of genres.