Pride a film by Matthew Warchus Calamity Films www.calamityfilms.co.uk Sweet, slightly mawkish but uplifting. Not words I would associate with the British Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. Pride directed by Matthew Warchus is the ‘feelgood’ … Continue reading →
Jimi: All Is By My Side a film by John Ridley Darko Entertainment www.darko.com/film_allisbymyside.html Written and directed by John Ridley (fresh from winning an Oscar for penning 12 Years A Slave), Jimi: All is … Continue reading →
Robert Elfstrom Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone Weinderworld Dvd www.weinerworld.com View Pete Seeger: A Song and a Stone for a slew of engaging glimpses of one of the greatest Americans of the … Continue reading →
Various Artists You Are There Shanachie 622 www.shanachie.com Back in the previous century’s videocassette era, Shanachie put out a series of early-1950s live performances by country acts (including Chet Atkins, Ernest Tubb and Marty … Continue reading →
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS directed by Joel and Ethan Coen CBS Films/Studio Canal 105 minutes, Rated R www.insidellewyndavis.com We expect Joel and Ethan Coen brothers to deliver quirky films whose logic drifts toward the surreal. Had that been … Continue reading →
VARIOUS Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At the Kennedy Center Legacy Recordings www.legacyrecordings.com Regardless of Eleanor Roosevelt’s attention to leftist music, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) might have been surprised to find Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center … Continue reading →
