Kill the messenger
Michael Cuesta
Dokumentarfilm om den amerikanske rockgruppe Big Star der i sin samtid aldrig høstede den store anerkendelse men sidenhen har været stor inspiration for nyere kunstnere såsom REM, Elliot Smith og Beck.
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slantmagazine.com
d. 1. juli 2013
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Bill Weber
d. 1. juli 2013
"The film is neatly divided in two: It first follows the brief alliance of "art brat" Chilton, teenage singer of a four-million-selling single with the Box Tops, and guitar geek Chris Bell, founding mastermind who succumbed to depression and a car crash in 1978, before documenting the years-long groundswell that saw their cult grow amid reissues, cover versions, and a 1993 reformation. Big Star only released two albums during their commercially invisible career, with label Ardent Records stymied by distribution crises, and the band's flowering was both nourished and plagued by the local "society of oddballs" (seen in brief, vivid archival clips shot by photographer and scenester William Eggleston); people with big hair, awful shirts, and absurd mustaches reveled nightly after the sale of liquor by the drink had become legal in Memphis in 1970".
The guardian
d. 1. aug. 2014
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Michael Hann
d. 1. aug. 2014
"The film is strongest when it steers off the main road and down byways: the rock writers' convention that Ardent Records organised in Memphis in 1974; the producer Jim Dickinson's widow explaining why he relocated his family to live in trailers in rural Mississippi. The result is an observed story, without the why of Big Star's musical disintegration that is at the heart of their enduring legend".