I Need That Record! vs Nelson Cavaquinho

Nelson Cavaquinho has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for I Need That Record!). Nelson Cavaquinho is the shorter watch at 15m compared with 1h 17m. Nelson Cavaquinho is the older of the two (1969 against 2008). Both are documentary, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Need That Record! posterI Need That Record!2008 VS Nelson Cavaquinho posterNelson Cavaquinho1969
I Need That Record!Nelson Cavaquinho
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.8/10
Year20081969
Length1h 17m15m
GenresDocumentary, MusicDocumentary, Music
Country–Brazil
DirectorBrendan TollerLeon Hirszman
Main castNoam Chomsky, Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Chris Frantz, Bob GruenNelson Cavaquinho

Synopsis

I Need That Record!

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media…

Nelson Cavaquinho

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.

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