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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Canyon: DVD

Laurel Canyon Director: Alison Ellwood Canyon Films, LLC / Madman It’s hard to see this as anything more than a boomer circle-jerk: Oooh, we had the best music didn’t we… Laurel Canyon is this near-mythical place in songs, in albums, in bands’ biographies. It is real. It was a place; a place where a large […]

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June 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band Director: Tod Lending Nomadic Pictures / Documentary Edge Festival Did you follow through with that lifelong artistic dream during the recent paid 8-week vacation of Lockdown? Did you pick up the drum-sticks for the first time, or first time in years? Did you write that novel, or paint a […]

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May 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Hello I Am David!: Film

Hello I Am David! Director: Cosima Lange Basis berlin Filmproduktion/Beleza Film For so many people, the introduction to David Helfgott was the movie Shine – in retrospect, if not at that time, that film seems to be more about Geoffrey Rush’s performance than the actual story of Helfgott, Australian pianist who rebuilt his career after […]