No rockumentary was ever more intimate, warts-and-welts and all than D.A. Also: the mood, ideally, should be intimate (which IMHO, is entirely lost on IMAX/3D extravaganzas.) The best rockumentaries are not visually arresting press releases like the recent "3D Experience" music docs - which, one could argue, are an entirely different genre than the rockumentary. The best ones aren't afraid to show the artist/artists in an unflattering light. Here are the five things they all seem to have in common, in memory of the American Master. Reed's death this weekend got me thinking about the great rockumentaries. He was the subject of Julian Schnabel's concert film ( Berlin), honored with a PBS American Masters documentary (which you can watch below), participated in Andy Warhol's screen tests and was a filmmaker himself, directing the documentary short Red Shirley. Lou Reed, an experimental artist, was no stranger to the world of film.
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