The 10 Pop-Music Documentaries I Most Wish Someone Would Make
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Music movies are having a moment — if, indeed, they ever stopped having one. Take the pop-music biopic.
There are times, like right now, when it surges in popularity, yet the form has never gone out of style. And music documentaries, a staple of the indie-film world, have only proliferated in the streaming era.
This means they have to compete for visibility, but a ton of them are getting made and (mostly) getting seen. They’ve become a happy epidemic.
A few, like “Amy” or “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?,” are popular and vital enough to have carved out a place in the culture — and, in the case of both those films, to have inspired the creation of a biopic (the upcoming Amy Winehouse drama “Back to Black,” and the Bee Gees film that Ridley Scott is now set to direct).
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