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Director's relationship to LC?

posted 16 years ago by Doctor-T-
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I love LC but I was hugely disappointed in this film. It was shot clumsily, the interviews were awkward, every time LC spoke, always a treat, his words were drowned in bad ambient drone as if the director had to let us know how "cosmic" her film was. The cheesy model in red satin? And of course the hilariously failed attempt to be artsy with the endlessly repeated blurry red lights, which you just know the director wanted to have shimmer, but was so incompetent she just couldn't figure out how to do it. Worst of all was the pedantic boring nepotistic choice of performers, when instead there is a world of great artists who gladly, as fans of LC's music, who would have given us much more interesting creative risk-taking covers. The snobbier LC fans may like the obscurity of these performers, but LC is just that, a performer who wants his music heard, and this movie missed a prime opportunity to use better known and more diverse performers to bring a huge new audience to experience the joys and depths of LC's music and words.

So I have to ask, does anyone know if LC was boinking the director? He has creatively "supported" others of his affairs, thankfully usually more talented. It would explain how someone so clearly not up to the task got this job.

And c'mon, no "Bird on a Wire"?!

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[–] lilbubbles78 14 years ago

I couldn't agree with you more. I apologize to the director for saying this, but that was a pretty pathetic attempt at making a documentary. Very uninformative. Sadly, some of the musicians were not that great. Rufus Wainright sucks, so how disappointing that he sings some of LC's most famous songs. The psuedo artsy feel to the film was more in the realm of a novice trying to create something artistic, but failing in the attempt. And how pathetic to use the loops that come with Apple's garage band program in your film. Soooo amateur. I was hoping I'd really get a sense of who LC was and why people love him so much, but instead I got some bad covers (some good, though. Antony totally killed it on If It Be Thy Will), little history, and stupid Bono sounding like an ass. I'm guessing that other made for TV doc has got to be better than this.

[–] ecpictures-1 11 years ago

So well said. LC is a music god and this movie almost turned me off him. Nepotistic is the right word. The Wainwrights have minimal talent -- all of them -- and Bono?! The director must have written his lines. No way he could be so vapid. Sigh... when will someone do a documentary truly worthy of LC? I'd love to see Eddie Vedder sing Tower of Song.