Rent Tom Waits: Under Review 1983-2006 (2006)
3.6 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 21min
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- Synopsis:
"Tom Waits: Under Review 1983-2006" is an 80 minute documentary film, which looks at this extraordinary musician and performer's music during that period. After Waits' marriage to Katherine Brennan in 1980, his music became more experimental, challenging and left field, but without any compromise of his craft - the songs were better than ever. Through album after album during the 1980's, the 1990's and the 2000's, Waits stunned his audience time and again.This program looks again at these records, and the man who made them, and in doing so provides the most enlightening, revealing and downright entertaining Tom Waits documentary yet to emerge.
Feeatures Include:- Tom Waits performances re-assessed by a panel of esteemed experts
- Rare interviews, seldom seen footage and unusual photographs from the period
- Review, comment and criticism from; Waits producer Bones Howe; Tom Waits' official biographer, Patrick Humphries; ex-editor of Rolling Stone magazine, Anthony DeCurtis; Village Voice music editor. Robert Christgau; highly respected British music journalist and author. Barney Hoskins (Mojo, NME): Uncut magazine's Nigel Williamson: Time Out magazine music editor Andrew Mueller, and musician and author Chris Roberts
- Footage of and comment on. Waits' most notable musical influences during the period
- Live and studio recordings of Waits classics such as; 'Downtown Train', 'In the Neighbourhood', 'Straight to the Top', 'Innocent When You Dream', 'Earth Dies Screaming', 'Clap Hands', 'Alice', 'Hoist That Rag' and many others- Actors:
- Tom Waits, Katherine Brennan, Bones Howe, Patrick Humphries, Anthony DeCurtis, Robert Christgau, Barney Hoskins, Nigel Williamson, Andrew Mueller, Chris Roberts
- Producers:
- Andy Cleland, Rob Johnstone
- Narrated By:
- Tony Pomfret
- Studio:
- Sexy Intellectual
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
