Hard-Fi! The Story Of Hard-Fi
Richard Ayoade heads to Surrey on a Swegway to track down the origins of the once Mercury prize-nominated indie lad-rockers Hard-Fi. But Ayoade gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that media reports of them forming in Feltham are actually incorrect; it was in fact Staines-upon-Thames. What happens next will blow your face off…
20 Feet From Ocean
Despite trailing and attempting to interview the elusive Frank Ocean on camera for three years, 20 Feet From Ocean instead becomes a meditation on an increasingly desperate director as he fails to get footage of anything more than Frank’s car speeding away, the back of his head as he walks through exits, plates of food he almost finished, still-smoking cigarettes, and the gentle imprints on seat cushions where he’s recently sat. The hotly debated final scene is a wide shot of the director looking out to sea and delivering a meandering monologue about how, actually, the film was never supposed to have Frank in it anyway.
Livin’ On Chico Time
Executive producer Richard Linklater (Boyhood) starts with a simple yet profound idea for Livin’ On Chico Time: send Louis Theroux to live with the 2005 X Factor finalist Chico for 12 years, and film everything. The groundbreaking results capture every minute aspect of Chico’s day-to-day life, as he hones his abs, varnishes the worktop in the garage, practises his golf swing, cleans the bit behind the freezer and leaves extremely positive anonymous reviews of It’s Chico Time on Amazon.
Searching For Sugababes
We all eventually fall apart, like sheds in the wind… But what happens when we come back together? Werner Herzog embarks on a soul-searching mission to find every former member of the Sugababes (original and non-original) and explore whether they were an ever-morphing R&B-pop band responsible for six No 1 singles and 18 Top 10 hits, or in fact a damning reflection of humanity’s naive frailty.
Becoming Dane
Angered by the rejuvenation of Craig David, this fly-on-the-wall documentary follows Dane Bowers as he attempts to spark a renaissance by hitting the streets of Britain armed with a microphone and a pot of ultra-strong hair gel to hunt down the next young Dane Bowers. But, as members of the public fail to recognise who he is, Bowers is forced to offer cash bribes in exchange for cooperation, before losing his patience on Oxford Street, ripping off his cream polo neck and screaming: “I AM THE NEXT YOUNG DANE BOWERS!”
Straightforwardly Red
This does-what-it-says-on-the-tin doc paints a portrait of Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, showing him to be an extremely normal man who likes Question Time, sausages, and hand wipes.
Supersonic plus live Q&A, 2 October; on general release from 7 October
