PaulBrouns

I am really struggling with my verdict here. At first glance I totally agree with all the 10 star raters that the series is very well made and is super intriguing.

And yet, I need to express my ongoing feelings of being lost for so many times in trying to follow the plot. Each time again a new character is introduced with just a few words of conversation, without knowing more of that person's position and motivation in the whole story.

My 15 year old son, who actually is a huge Star Wars fan and knows all ins and outs of its universe, told me the same thing. More explanation and less static conversations would be so welcome. My son by now has given up because of being bored. Such a shame!

Right now, after having started watching season 2, episode 6, I feel a strong urge to google for some more explanation and more indepth recap.

I really enjoyed this movie to great extent! It is a wonderful documentary about the Memphis music legacy. It has some archive footage as one could expect, but the core of the movie are the live music sessions during which older musicians meet up with younger Memphis musicians. Those sessions are all about the joy of creating music together and thus pass the torch to new generations and so is the entire movie. Older musicians tell wonderful stories of the past, but also point out the hardships they had to overcome. In particular the racism, the civil rights movement, the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. It all influenced the course of history and also the music. Blues blends with rap, soul with hiphop etc., etc.

I warmly recommend this movie because it originates directly from this love of music. And that's just so rich and beautiful.

I really enjoyed this documentary. In the first place there is this remarkable choice to let Hitchcock do most of the talking. Returning from the dead (brought back just like Kim Novak in Vertigo) 4 decades after his death, convincingly voiced by an actor, it has much of Hitch's peculiar sense of humour. Much of his monologue I could remember him having said in the context of previous interviews. In particular out of the legendary book, Hitchcock - Truffaut. As a big extra you get to see what he means, while browsing scenes throughout his work, all around a set of six themes. I found this approach very refreshing. Instead of the usual chronological approach, it was refreshing to have Alfred Hitchcock as a host talking about his work intuitively. It also inspired me to watch back a lot of the director's movies. Warmly recommended!