Filled with interviews of rock guitar luminaries (such as Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and Slash) and brimming with close-up concert footage, Rock Prophecies is a sure-fire music lover’s delight that chronicles the 40-year career of photographer Robert Knight.

In a culture obsessed with the video game “Guitar Hero,” one might think that rock photographer Robert Knight would be a household name, but somehow this gregarious shutterbug, who for 40 years has snapped many of rock'n'roll's most celebrated performers (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Stevie Ray Vaughn to name a few), remains relatively obscure. John Chester’s highly engaging and entertaining rock doc should change that. Beginning with the death of the legendary Vaughn, whom Knight had just photographed prior to his fateful helicopter crash, we get a revealing glimpse into Knight’s persona as he declares that, while inundated with offers for the photos, he rejected them all as he did not want to profit on the death of a friend. (Oddly, just prior to boarding the ill-fated craft Vaughn had pulled him aside and prophetically told him to be on the lookout for the next great blues guitarist.) Knight is a jovial character, the wayward son of a evangelical minister who at age 18 pursued his passion for rock'n'roll (and guitarists in particular) by talking his way into the Whisky a Go Go to photograph a new band called Led Zeppelin. Since then he has made it his life’s mission to find and photograph new talent as it emerges from the brine of the rock'n'roll seas. Filled with fantastic concert footage and intimate interviews with the likes of Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Slash, Steve Vai and Joe Bonamassa, the film is guaranteed to satisfy guitar enthusiasts and novices alike and is particularly fulfilling for bringing to light a young guitarist from Honeygrove, Texas named Tyler Dow Bryant, who Knight discovered on YouTube and who plays some smokin’ Mississippi Delta Blues. Enjoy! -- Eric Moore

Q: The Man
( USA, 2008, 36 min , Adam Bardach )

Featuring interviews and appearances by Bono, Alicia Keys, Terrence Howard, Rakim, Chris Tucker and even former President Bill Clinton (amongst others), director Adam Bardach pays homage to the ‘Godfather’ role of music legend Quincy Jones in this enlightening documentary.