"Pete Seeger: The Power of Song" starts run at IFC Center

26 Oct 2007 - 5:10pm
26 Oct 2007 - 10:45pm

Shown at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, was a remarkable bio-pic of folk-singer, leftist trouble maker : “ “Pete Seeger – The Power of Song” .

Now it will play for non-festival movie goers at the IFC Center
323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10014 (6th Ave. at 3rd Street). Call for times (212) 924-7771.

Below a micro-review via the NY Times:

The reflective documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song explores the legacy of revered American folk singer and activist Seeger - written and directed by filmmaker Jim Brown when Seeger was in his late '80s. (Blogger note: Seeger still in his late 80’s). In lieu of recounting the narrative of Seeger's life note-for-note, however, Brown uses that individual biography as a contextual lens, through which he recounts decades of American social history. To tell his story, the filmmaker interpolates original, exclusive interviews with such Seeger contemporaries as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, archival footage of Seeger in concert, and extracts from Seeger's private home movies. In the process, Brown unveils the extent to which Seeger continually prompted societal change through his consciousness-raising music and offstage social efforts. For a collection of reviews from all over click here.

I am going for sure.

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