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CAN: The Documentary
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CAN: The Documentary

Jan 1, 1999
1h 27m
★ 6.5

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.

Genres

Documentary
Music

Production Companies

DoRo Productions

CAN: The Documentary Trailers

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Cast

Holger Czukay

Holger Czukay

Jaki Liebezeit

Jaki Liebezeit

Michael Karoli

Michael Karoli

Malcolm Mooney

Malcolm Mooney

Kris Needs

Kris Needs

Shirley Karoli

Shirley Karoli

Irmin Schmidt

Irmin Schmidt

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