Tonight's movie: Maestro. Outstanding look at NYC underground dance culture in the 70s and 80s, the roots of house and particularly the late, great DJ Larry Levan. Apparently there's very little film of Larry Levan (which makes sense... how many people are going around filming club DJs?) but the movie makes up for that by interviewing just about everyone, including Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, Louie Vega, Frankie Knuckles, Francois K, Tom Moulton, Jellybean, Derrick May. Highly recommended.
Sometimes I think documentaries about urban scenes of the late 20th century should be required to use a Memento format. That way the grim drug addiction and AIDS section of the story would come at the begining and the movies could end with the more upbeat earlier years. They try to get around this in Maestro by ending with a visual tour of contemporary DJ culture (movie was released in 2003). Which was nice (hey, that's Dimitri from Paris... Sven Vath... Fantastic Plastic Machine) but kinda frustrating cos they were just showing their pictures and not playing any of their music.