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Release Date:
January 1, 1999
Original Title:
CAN: The Documentary
Genres:
Documentary | Music
Production Companies:
DoRo Productions
Production Countries:
Austria | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 87
The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.
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