Before the Music Dies (2006)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Andrew Shapter

Writers:

Joel Rasmussen (writer)
Andrew Shapter (writer)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

With outstanding performances and revealing interviews Before the Music Dies takes a critical look at...

Cast

Doyle Bramhall II	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erykah Badu	...	Herself
Eric Clapton	...	Himself
Elvis Costello	...	Himself
Taylor Hannah	...	Herself
Josh Jackson	...	Himself
Branford Marsalis	...	Himself
Dave Matthews	...	Himself
Billy Preston	...	Himself
Nick Purdy	...	Himself
Bonnie Raitt	...	Herself
Ahmir-Khalib Thompson	...	Himself

Also Known As:

B4md (Australia)

Runtime:

USA:95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Inspiring to rethink how our communities should support music...

For debut filmmakers, apart from the content of the actual doc, this is an incredible piece of professional cinema. The film does not mimic a style from the great documentarians of our time such as Ken Burns and Michael Moore, but rather gives a documenting style in and of its own right.

While the film does focus on the dark side of the music industry, and doesn't need to go far to win over an audience to the premise that most of our current radio does suck, the film primarily inspires one to see that there's still a lot of good music out there to be found and had.

The scope of covering the current changes in the music industry is so vast, that these guys did a good job of keeping the audience engaged by telling us where music has been been, where we are now, and where we might be going.

To those of us that are interested and concerned about how the changes in commerce, technology, and art will affect the motion picture industry, this film gives us a good precursor of what we may be going through.