Searching for Sugar Man (2012, D: Malik Bendjelloul)
02-18-13 | 09:02 PM
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Searching for Sugar Man (2012, D: Malik Bendjelloul)
"Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez."
I watched this documentary tonight, and recommend everyone else to check it out.
It's a great story and definitely worth your time.
I watched this documentary tonight, and recommend everyone else to check it out.
It's a great story and definitely worth your time.
02-18-13 | 09:40 PM
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wasn't bad.
02-18-13 | 10:10 PM
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I haven't seen the movie yet but I certainly recommend checking out the two CD reissues for Rodriguez, put out by Light In The Attic Records.
05-28-13 | 03:46 PM
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I watched this on Starz and I liked it. I hope this story was real and not scripted or staged 
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Rodriguez is pretty humble.
This was a positive movie compared to Last Days Here.
.Rodriguez is pretty humble.
This was a positive movie compared to Last Days Here.
05-13-14 | 05:41 PM
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10-06-21 | 12:34 AM
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Rented this movie because I like music documentaries but really didn’t know anything about it. I thought it was interesting, and I liked the music. I had no idea who Rodriguez was and had to keep reminding myself that it wasn’t a mockumentary. 
The making-of is interviewing and talking about the director, and how he got depressed trying to finish the film.
The making-of is interviewing and talking about the director, and how he got depressed trying to finish the film.
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10-06-21 | 03:57 PM
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Funny that this should be bumped only days after my nephew mentioned this film at a family gathering on Sunday. He wondered if there were any other examples of a pop culture phenomenon being discovered and celebrated by another country and not the country of origin. The prime example I could think of was A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS becoming a hit in Europe and Eastwood hearing about it but not being aware it was the film he made (under a different title) until it got reviewed in Variety and they mentioned his name a couple of years after he'd made it. Anything else like that?
10-06-21 | 04:18 PM
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Jerry Lewis and the Hoff have big followings outside the US but they’re not unknown here.
10-06-21 | 05:18 PM
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Funny that this should be bumped only days after my nephew mentioned this film at a family gathering on Sunday. He wondered if there were any other examples of a pop culture phenomenon being discovered and celebrated by another country and not the country of origin. The prime example I could think of was A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS becoming a hit in Europe and Eastwood hearing about it but not being aware it was the film he made (under a different title) until it got reviewed in Variety and they mentioned his name a couple of years after he'd made it. Anything else like that?
