Searching for Sugar Man
Saturday July 28
8:00pm - shown in collaboration with the newport folk festival. Rodriguez, the film's subject, and director, Malik Bendjelloul, will be in attendance. Rodriguez will be performing live at the newport folk festival on sunday july 29
Jane Pickens (JPT)
"A hugely entertaining, emotionally touching, and musically revelatory experience." - Indiewire
“Cold Fact, the 1970 vinyl is all genius (flaws and all) to those in the know." - Entertainment Weekly
Winner of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award
"Rodriguez's story stands apart." - USA Today
From the academy award winning Producer of MAN ON WIRE
"Terrific film, and amazing story." - Telegraph
"An extraordinary journey." - The Daily Mirror
"Fascinating. A must see." - Empire
“This remarkable artifact of Michigan hippie soul by singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez – a lost classic originally issued in 1970 – is what Bob Dylan’s mid-Sixties electric record might
have sounded like if he’d made them in Detroit at the dawn of funk." - Rolling Stone
In the late ‘60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest...
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USA / 82 min
Director(s): MALIK BENDJELLOUL
Producer(s): SIMON CHINN
Details:
8:00pm - shown in collaboration with the newport folk festival. Rodriguez, the film's subject, and director, Malik Bendjelloul, will be in attendance. Rodriguez will be performing live at the newport folk festival on sunday july 29
