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(More customer reviews)I was fortunate enough to see this film at the 2000 Sundance Festival with a couple of musician friends. Leaving the theatre, we all agreed that it was the best single character documentary we had ever seen. Aiyana utelizes the help and stories from family and some very popular names in music to tell a wonderful life's story of her father, Jack Elliot, who may be the last true ramblin' man. He learned a great majority of his musical craft from spending time with Woody Guthrie. This was long after he had left his mother and father back in NYC. I can not possibly do the film justice by simply trying to summarize. There are only three things you need to know to make your decision by way of this armchair review. 1.) You will get to know the real Jack Elliot by way of many celebrities' stories as well as learning of Jack's own gentle and sometimes brutal honesty because that is what he was and is. 2.) Unless you have no hope of being anything but repulsed by hearing and learning about original and real "one man and his guitar" country / folk music, even though it is the foundation of where rock music comes from, you will like the music even more. And 3.) This film may violently burst the balloon of Bob Dylan fans that believe Dylan is a true original.
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adventures into his life that he seems more myth than man. After running away to join the rodeo at the age of fifteen, he traveled and sang with Woody Guthrie and became friend and mentor to Bob Dylan. His music helped ignite a folk revolution in thei'60s and has influenced some of the most popular musicians and performers of our day.Jack's daughter Aiyana had originally wanted to document the great rambler in action and bring his story to light. However, when she hit the road with him, the focus of the story turned from the roving cowboy's life on the road to the daughter's search for a dad who was rarely at home.Shot over the course of two years, the film skillfully weaves stellar performances, contemporary verite, candid interviews and a wealth of archival material including never-before-seen home movies from the Guthrie family's private collection resulting in a film that takes us beyond the legend and into the psyche of the man.
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