The Best Movie I've Seen in Years
If you haven't yet seen the movie "Searching for Sugar Man," I highly recommend that you do so, it's excellent. It's got a 96% Tomato-Meter Rating from movie critics on RottenTomatoes.com and a 96% audience rating, which is almost unprecedented for a movie to rank so highly on both measures at the same time. Watch the trailer above, and here's a synopsis:
Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez,
the greatest 1970s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar
in the late 1960s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful
melodies and prophetic lyrics, they recorded an album which they
believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of
his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared
into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg
recording
found its way into
apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a
phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set
out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation
leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths
about the artist known as Rodriguez.
You can see Rodriguez on The Letterman Show tomorrow (Tuesday) night, and see him live, here's his touring schedule.
1 Comments:
Thanks. I will take the kids to see the movie next week. Sadly, it is only playing at one theatre in my area.
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