Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive photos and exuberant praise and live perfomances from an eclectic mix of musicians, including: Jarvis Cocker, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, ANOHNI, The Handsome Family and U2's Bono and The Edge.

The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk

HBO购得梦龙乐队纪录片《信仰者》(Believer，同名单曲大热)的电视播放权，将于圣丹斯电影节首映，暑期播出，汉斯·季默担任配乐师。该片聚焦主唱丹·雷诺兹，他对过去十年里犹他州的摩门教会如何对待LGBTQ群体，以及耶稣基督末世圣徒教会实行的本质上避开同性婚姻因素的政策、让青少年自杀率飙升的现象展开调查，而圣丹斯的举办地正是在犹他州的帕克城。作为一个摩门教徒，雷诺兹表示他的目的是在更大范围内激起摩门教对于同性恋权利的有意义的讨论。由纪录片导演Don Argott(《蝙蝠侠与比尔》《美国的核能》)执导，其他乐队成员贝斯手本·麦基、吉他手韦恩·瑟蒙、鼓手丹尼尔·普拉兹曼，以及雷诺兹妻子Aja Volkman也会出镜。

亚马逊出品的酷玩乐队（Coldplay）纪录片《酷玩乐队：满脑子的梦想》曝光预告片。影片的拍摄横跨20年，曝光不少乐队成员年轻时和私下的珍贵画面。标题“A Head Full of Dreams”取自酷玩乐队的同名歌曲。

本书是日本著名音乐大师坂本龙一唯一口述自传。幼时的坂本龙一，因为饲养小白兔而作的一曲《小兔之歌》，使他第一次强烈地体会到音乐带来的喜悦。青年时，他是一名彻头彻尾的“愤青”，罢课抗议、游行示威，但也迷恋于德彪西、贝多芬、披头士，并潜心阅读黑格尔、胡塞尔、德里达等。期间，他 曾一度拒绝学习钢琴，正因为这次“拒绝”带来的空虚，使他察觉到“自己原来是如此喜爱音乐啊”，音乐使他自由。此后，他真正开启了自己的音乐人生，凭借《末代皇帝》的配乐，他登顶国际舞台赢得盛誉…在口述中，坂本龙一不断俯瞰自己迄今为止的生命，以期看清现在的自我。书中还穿插着他不同时期的照片50余幅，展现了这位音乐大师充满魅力的人生历程。