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UK, 2004, 59 MIN
DIRECTED BY CHRIS RODLEY
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
The Man In Black would have been 72 this year and, had he survived, likely still working on a career that spanned four decades of American popular music. Johnny Cash sang with Elvis in the 1950s, Dylan in the 1960s, and Bono in the 1990s, then was discovered by yet another generation of fans through his work with Def Jam founder and producer Rick Rubin in the last decade of his life. He was a complex country singer bold enough to oppose the Vietnam War and caring enough to play concerts for soldiers in the field. Rare early footage of him on stage imitating Elvis reveals a seldom seen humorous side, and touching interviews with family members and fellow musicians like Roseanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and Elvis Costello complete the portrait. This extraordinary and affecting documentary covers everything—from Cash’s childhood roots to his early Sun recording sessions to his drug-fueled days as a hell-raising outlaw to his commercial rise and fall and finally to his stunning rebirth as an elderly troubadour contemplating his own mortality.

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VIVIAN STANSHALL—THE CANYONS OF HIS MIND



UK, 2004, 59 MIN
DIRECTED BY PAUL KERR
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Loveable crooner or eccentric loon? As lead singer of late-1960s British cult sensations The Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band, Vivian Stanshall emitted noises that were sure to surprise. One of the first British art school bands, the Bonzos infused a DaDa-esque absurdity into the otherwise common 1960s act of strumming a guitar. They were like The Beatles comprised entirely of John Lennon at his most trippy and bent. The Bonzos managed only one minor hit (“I'm The Urban Spaceman,” sung by guitarist and future Rutle Neil Innes), but their impact on bizarro intellectual art rock was profound and secured Stanshall a small but shady spot in the pantheon of creative British oddballs. This BBC documentary is, in Stanshall’s own terms, “a sur-Ealing comedy” that draws on an amazing collection of archived performance footage, as well as interviews with Bonzo collaborators, late Brit radio icon John Peel, and life-long fan Stephen Fry. In a world in which VH1 immortalizes every two-bit musical hack with a shag haircut, Viv Stanshall remains pure, awaiting your undivided attention.