Change Your Image
kelligravano
Reviews
Not Bad for a Girl (1995)
excellent
This is a great documentary about hard rocking women of the 1990s! All the big bands are here, L7, Babes in Toyland, Hole, Lunachicks as well as lesser known bands. There are great interviews with Theo from Lunachicks, Kat Bjelland, Donita from L7 and the original bassist and drummer from Hole. There is also coverage of the Riot Grrrl convention giving a glimpse into what young girls were doing in the 1990s in regards to social/political action by starting bands. There is also psychological aspects to the documentary in regards to how the women see themselves vs the image the media gives them. This is one of the most fully formed documentaries on a music genre I have ever seen.
Beautiful Noise (2014)
Good, but could have been better
Beautiful Noise is a well done documentary on a very specific type of music. I call it dream pop, some call it shoe gaze. All the bands documented are excellent, but I would have liked to hear about all the fans who came to their shows! There are no interviews from every day non famous fans. Also the bands do not talk about touring which to me is an important part of being in a band. There was so much going on in the early 90s cultural landscape, but there isn't too much mentioned about that. My favorite band Curve only gets a minute of mention. There was no mention about how different their music was and how bands like Garbage were influenced by Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia's music skills. I liked this film and watched it three times to get an idea of what more I would have liked to see.