CAN: The Documentary (1999)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1999 (US)
  • Documentary, Music
  • 1h 27m

Overview

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.

Hannes Rossacher

Director

Rudi Dolezal

Director

Cast

Holger Czukay's headshot

Holger Czukay

Jaki Liebezeit's headshot

Jaki Liebezeit

Michael Karoli's headshot

Michael Karoli

Malcolm Mooney's headshot

Malcolm Mooney

Kris Needs's headshot

Kris Needs

Shirley Karoli's headshot

Shirley Karoli

Irmin Schmidt's headshot

Irmin Schmidt

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