CAN The Documentary (1999)

The late60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a featurelength tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career In CAN The Documentary the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows concerts and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal mixing street music jazz folk and rock into a sometimes poppy sometimes abstract stew The bands influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed