Directed by Daniel Roher. Film Review: ‘Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band’ Reviewed at Universal Music Group, Santa Monica, Sept. 4, 2019. Lead guitarist and primary songwriter for The Band, Robbie Robertson. Photo: Elliott Landy, landyvision.com . If anything the story sometimes outweighs the music, with seminal tracks floating by in the background while you’re riveted to the story centre-stage, but that’s corrected with a truly moving rendition of ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ from The Last Waltz, the passion and power of a brotherhood in full flow. Married with children while the others were not, they can’t help but paint themselves as the adults in the room. Their star-studded 1976 ‘The Last Waltz’ concert was indeed a fond farewell; despite semi-reunions the five members – Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson – would never play a full show together on stage again. So The Band’s story seems perfectly concise and contained, ideal celluloid fare, and Once Were Brothers’ director Daniel Roher does a fabulous job of scooping it up in one piece and placing it neatly on film. I don’t know for sure, but I suspect the ghost of Levon Helm pukes all over this movie. The public debut at San Francisco’s Winterland in 1969 is recalled with some humor, as Robertson, ill at the time with a 103-degree fever, was treated by a hypnotist to make it through the performance. Their 1968 debut album, “Music From Big Pink,” hit like a comet, the handmade, clapboard sound contrasting sharply with the psychedelic electro-blues of the day. The Band lived the rock ’n’ roll ride in microcosm. From backing Arkansas rock ‘n’ roll madman Ronnie Hawkins, playing two-bit roadhouses across Canada, to accompanying Dylan at the peak of his career when he began playing electric rock music, these five musicians who became the Band were deeply schooled and primed to become a mythic force in rock. The only other living member of the group, keyboardist Garth Hudson, is not interviewed. Is animation a lower class of movie — or just as great as other cinema?
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What the film loses in such Pope-like patronage, however, it gains in archival intrigue. He even takes responsibility for explaining why Helm was angry with him.
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To support his own perspective, Robertson enlists his charming wife. ‘Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band’ review: a folk-rock family falls apart. Directed by Daniel Roher.
This beautifully produced, big-budget rockumentary, more than capably directed by Daniel Roher, is the latest effort to cultivate and maintain the legacy of the Band by Robertson, who long ago bought out the other members (predictably, Levon Helm was the lone holdout). The guitarist does not come off as a wholly reliable narrator in his cinematic account of the illustrious career of the Band, “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” the star-studded documentary that opens in theaters Friday, Feb. 28. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band gives the history of rose up from this musical battle to become superstars on their own.
Having Martin Scorsese – who directed the film of The Last Waltz and created an acclaimed sideline in films about Dylan, The Stones and George Harrison – as executive producer can only have helped Roher line up some of the biggest names in rock as talking heads. (R. 100 minutes.). A peek behind the curtain of rock ’n’ roll myth, right there.
“Robbie is a real artist,” Dominique Robertson says.
“I could see the pride in his eyes.”.
“ ‘You wrote that?’ he said,” Robertson tells us. Featuring new interviews with Clapton, Springsteen and Martin Scorsese, this gripping documentary charts the rise and fall of music's most anonymous trailblazers.
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And, within just a few years, they had succumbed to the age-old rock follies – fast cars, paranoia, heroin. At the heart of the Band’s music was a complex, tightly woven intersection of personalities and talents, a fluid collaboration among guitarist Robertson, drummer Helm, bassist Rick Danko, and keyboardists Richard Manuel and Hudson, which Robertson claims in this movie was his “vision.” With Helm, Danko and Manuel gone and Hudson silent, Robertson picks up the story for them. Told specifically from Robertson’s point of view, while he sits throne-like in the middle of a room, he even handles explaining the points of view of other people who might have held dissenting or, at least, differing views. With Martin Scorsese, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.
© 2020 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. The public debut at San Francisco’s Winterland in 1969 is recalled with some humor, as Robertson, ill at the time with a 103-degree fever, was treated by a hypnotist to make it through the performance. Instead, he appears in one brief cameo, nipped from Scorsese’s 2005 documentary on him, No Direction Home, calling The Band “gallant knights for even standing behind me” on the 1966 tour. A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
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“Inspired” by Robertson’s 2016 memoir “Testimony,” the film certainly has a story to tell.
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Dylan was not interviewed, although octogenarian Hawkins shines as an irascible old pirate.
The best he can summon in the way of independent support is guitarist Jimmy Vivino, who is cited as “a friend of Levon Helm.” “Families can go to the grave feuding,” Vivino says.
But the whimsy quickly thins out as Robertson and his wife recount the long, slow, tortuous descent — by the other members — into a morass of drug and alcohol problems. On their first attempt at an album of their own, 1968’s ‘Music From Big Pink’, they virtually invented their own genre, Americana, condensing centuries of southern history and songcraft into a sound both as old as the hills and as fresh as the sky. Theaters and showtimes.
Springsteen, Clapton, Peter Gabriel and Van Morrison appear to doff the cap; Bruce credits ‘…Big Pink’ as changing his entire musical outlook and Eric recalls leaving Cream to hunt the band down and ask to join. Survivors get to tell the history, but Robbie Robertson is pushing it.
Summary: Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band is a confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robertson’s young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band. “He is an amazing creative force.”.
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Come Play is not director Jacob Chase's first swing at this story. Of course, just exactly what those creative forces were responsible for creating was at the heart of the beef Helm had with Robertson, apparently to Helm’s dying day.
Robertson has a gift for romanticizing his own hero’s journey, even if in the end, the film comes off as elaborate self-justification.
“Once Were Brothers” centers on Robertson, one of the Band’s two surviving original members (along with the keyboardist-saxophonist Garth Hudson), and it … He has a novelist’s unsparing eye for telling details and poignant moments, like playing “The Weight” for Bob Dylan the first time. Eric Clapton and Bruce Springsteen testify to the power of “Big Pink” in the film. Take a load off and sink in. With Robertson, a little modesty would go a long way, but that is not his style. Novelist Daphne du Maurier wove her favourite inspirations — water, dogs, food, suspense — into everything she wrote, from the grandest plot... 'Once Were Brothers' Is a Loving Tribute to Robbie Robertson and the Band, 'Come Play' Fails to Turn a Five-Minute YouTube Short into a Compelling Feature, 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' Speaks Truth to the Powerlessness of Trump-Era Comedy, 'The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw' Has a Spooky Vibe and Not Much Else, Netflix's 'Rebecca' Forgets That It's Supposed to Be a Thriller. L“Once Were Brothers”: Documentary. Robertson rests firmly in the center of his narrative, and the entire story revolves around him. “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band” tells one member’s story of the famed rock act. Our Take: Yes, Once Were Brothers is a decent account of the Band’s legacy and influence, albeit from a personal, internal perspective.
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