{"id":15790,"date":"2023-07-20T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2023-07-16T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:36:31","slug":"two-rock-docs-by-d-a-pennebaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15790","title":{"rendered":"Two Rock Docs by D.A. Pennebaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Jimi Plays Monterey<\/em> (1967\/1986, Pennebaker &#038; Chris Hegedus)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes of intro fluff and and opening title painting before the performance starts, but once it gets there, it&#8217;s as good as the boomers promised it would be.  Lighting the guitar on fire gave us a terrific poster image, didn&#8217;t do much else.  This was the band&#8217;s U.S. debut, having made their career in England.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Speed painter&#8221; Denny Dent:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/jimi1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/em> (1973\/1979, Pennebaker)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly, we hear Wendy Carlos music before Bowie.  Low-detail blur, the light not high enough to make a proper film.  Great singing, sometimes some nice guitar.  Fun scene when we see a big guitar solo after Bowie leaves the stage, then rewind to another camera following Bowie through a costume change as the solo plays again.  I love the idea of Bowie, and was hoping that blasting this movie through the soundbar and pretending I was at his career-peak concert would help me enjoy the music, but the costumes beat the songs.  &#8220;White Light\/White Heat&#8221; was cool at least!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/jimi2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimi Plays Monterey (1967\/1986, Pennebaker &#038; Chris Hegedus) Ten minutes of intro fluff and and opening title painting before the performance starts, but once it gets there, it&#8217;s as good as the boomers promised it would be. Lighting the guitar on fire gave us a terrific poster image, didn&#8217;t do much else. This was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1599,2564,161,3138,2073],"class_list":["post-15790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-concert","tag-da-pennebaker","tag-david-bowie","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15812,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions\/15812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}