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When it comes to combining film and music, no one does it better than South by Southwest. It's fitting, then, that this year's festival will be showing two docs about underappreciated pop-music geniuses.
Director Michael Tully, whose film Cocaine Angel screened at SXSW in 2006, will be traveling to Austin this year to premiere his first feature-length doc, Silver Jew. The film chronicles the first-ever tour by the Silver Jews, the amazing indie-rock band fronted by the notoriously press-shy David Berman. Being "Jews," the band takes their show on the road to Israel, and invited Tully along to document the experience. Tully also used his Israel footage to cut a video for the Jews' latest single, "I'm Getting Back Into You", which we've embedded here.
Stephen Kijak will also presenting his labor of love, Scott Walker: 30th Century Man. The film chronicles the life and times of Scott Walker, whose brilliant, sporadic career as a member the Walker Brothers and as a solo artist is one of the most fascinating and perplexing stories in pop-music history. Walker also allowed Kijak to film him as he recorded his "comeback" album The
Drift, a haunting, utterly original collection of new songs that garnered rave reviews following its release last year. We've embedded the official U.K. trailer below.
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man -- MySpace, Official Site
