Director RJ Cutler is welcomed into the Eilish family between 20, capturing as much of Billie’s unmanufactured, homespun authenticity as the blur of the pop world spinning around her. Not yet old enough to have lived out the traditional music documentary narrative arc – hardship, big break, sing for President, stomach pump – Eilish’s verité doc rather sets her monumental superstardom within a frame of domestic relatability. Albeit with some touching pathos instead of tiny Stonehenges.īillie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (2021) And this tale of two 1980s heavy metal coulda-beens refusing to give up on their dreams in the face of half-empty bars, embarking on an ill-fated European tour, breaking up, reuniting and forging on to semi-glory certainly takes the past-their-prime metal journeyman story up to eleven. ‘The real-life Spinal Tap’, went the hype. Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ (to rent) Watching such a mercurial talent spiral into drink, drugs, bulimia and tragedy while a scandal-hungry media swarm greedily ogles the skidding car makes for a true slice of celluloid heartbreak.
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Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video and Virgin TV Goįrom stars-in-her-eyes childhood home movies to final onstage meltdowns, the volatile, demon-plagued life of Amy Winehouse is laid bare in Asif Kapadia’s Oscar-winning Amy.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, YouTube (to rent)įilmed by Sydney Pollack in 1972 but gathering dust on the shelf until three months after her death in 2018, Aretha Franklin’s live recordings for her gospel album ‘Amazing Grace’ – shot over two nights in a church in LA – caught a heaven-sent voice at its most powerful and impassioned.
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