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Behind the Scenes / Making of documentary of Neil Young's 2022 album, 'World Record'

Indie director Jim Jarmusch lenses a low-tech tribute to protean rocker Neil Young and his long-standing band, Crazy Horse. Stitched together from archival material shot in 1976 and 1986 along with candid scenes of Young and the band kicking back between shows, this rockumentary is as ragged as it is direct.

In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for a lifesaving operation, he headed to Nashville, where he wrote and recorded the country folk album Prairie Wind with old friends and family members. After the successful operation and recovery period, he returned to Nashville that August to play at the famed Ryman Auditorium, once again gathering together friends and family for this special performance.

The second of Jonathan Demme's three Neil Young performance docs.

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

The docu-film is described as “a never been seen before fan piece including footage from Northern California, London, and Nashville, during its creation.” It takes you on a journey from his iconic Broken Arrow Ranch to a performance with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Neil Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at the age of 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young approached each show as a celebratory memorial service to honour his late friend.

Timeless Orpheum features Neil’s solo performance at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theater from January 28, 2019. Young previously described the movie, captured during his “Polar Vortex Tour,” as “a concert film with a lot of twists and turns.”

The documentary provides an unprecedented glimpse into Young and Crazy Horse’s creative process, as they took to tape in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains during the Covid-19 pandemic. Kicking off with a note of gratitude from Young (“I’m so glad we’re fuckin’ here!”), the trailer shows what things were like as the legendary band got back into their element, in the wild, making music in a restored, 19th-century log barn under a full, glowing moon. The film captures the group—a 50-year-old musical family that includes, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Nils Lofgren —building the powerful new record, but also their easy humour and enduring brotherhood. - The Sound Cafe (www.thesoundcafe.com)

Recorded three days after Live at Massey Hall during the Journey Through the Past Solo Tour, this rare concert film was filmed by a German television crew, but their footage sat in the vault for five decades. Until now.

A documentation of Neil Young and Crazy Horse concert from 1990.

Neil Young performs his first ever concert at Coronation Hall in his hometown of Omemee, Ontario. The special invite-only event took place in December 2017, and was in attendance by about 225 people.

An unfiltered look at the recording of the new album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Neil Young is recorded by his wife Daryl Hannah during the COVID-19 quarantine. A live performance from home and the first feature in their Fireside Sessions series.

Shot largely with a handheld camera, Neil Young's Muddy Track documents a difficult tour of Europe, plagued by poor weather, dwindling ticket sales, backstage arguments and audience riots. In an interview with MOJO in 1995, Young claimed that Muddy Track was among the favourite of all his films: "It’s dark as hell. God, it’s a heavy one! [...] But it’s funky".

Silver & Gold is a live video by Neil Young performing solo on acoustic guitar and piano. All but the last song were performed at Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas during his 1999 solo acoustic tour promoting his album of the same name.

Neil Young is recorded by his wife Daryl Hannah during the COVID-19 quarantine. A live performance from home and the second feature in their Fireside Sessions series.