Monday, August 11, 2008

The Boy Looked at Johnny

Caught Patti Smith: Dream of Life the other day, and what a pleasure.

"Eleven years in the making, commercial-photographer-turned-documentarian Steven Sebring’s impressionistic account of poetess/punk rock icon Patti Smith is insufferable, endearing, pretentiously arty, bracingly direct, humorless, hilarious, oddly distant and strangely touching, but always compulsively watchable—in other words, a fabulous contradictory mess, much like Smith herself..."




You can read the rest of my review here.

Bottom line: If it's playing in a theater anywhere near you, pounce.

4 comments:

geor3ge said...

On a related note, I just Tivo'd "New York Doll" about Dolls' bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane and his post-rock'n'roll conversion to Mormonism. Seen it?

Kid Charlemagne said...

Great review, Steve. Concur on all counts. One of the best music documentaries I have seen in a long time. I feel like I finally *know* Patti for the first time although I have been a fan for these many years.

steve simels said...

geor3ge said...
On a related note, I just Tivo'd "New York Doll" about Dolls' bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane and his post-rock'n'roll conversion to Mormonism. Seen it?

8/11/2008 8:53 AM


Indeed, and it's terrific.

I was actually in a post-Dolls band with Arthur for about three weeks. Odd guy, but very nice....

Anonymous said...

Louie, Louie Steve. LOK!

ROT(Plumber)