Story Line
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.
Top Cast
Holger Czukay
Jaki Liebezeit
Michael Karoli
Malcolm Mooney
Kris Needs
Shirley Karoli
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
1999-01-01
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
DocumentaryMusic






