Lemmy

Lemmy (2010) is a feature-length music documentary you can watch online on iFILM, following Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister.

The camera trails Lemmy at home among his war-memorabilia collection, perched at his regular bar on the Sunset Strip, and backstage before shows. The people who knew him fill in the rest: Hawkwind's Dave Brock, guitarist Phil Campbell, Alice Cooper, plus James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Duff McKagan, Scott Ian, Ice-T and Jarvis Cocker. Out of their stories and his own blunt asides comes a portrait with no gloss on it.

Wes Orshoski and Greg Olliver shot over several years and landed on something honest rather than a tidy tribute — rock and roll framed as a way of life, warts, whiskey and volume included. Essential for Motörhead diehards and heavy-music fans; anyone after a polished biography should look elsewhere. Stream Lemmy (2010) online on iFILM.