CAN: The Documentary 1999
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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.
- Released: 1999-01-01
- Runtime: 87 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Stars: Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Malcolm Mooney, Kris Needs
- Director: Hannes Rossacher, Sven Offen, Rudi Dolezal
