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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 5

  I was intrigued after seeing a trailer before another film I saw at Laemmle's NoHo7, so I decided to check this documentary out. Bill Frisell seems to be primarily jazz, but also ventures into Americana/country, classical, and experimental, because MUSIC IS MUSIC.

  A really good idea in theory. The documentary opened with some talking heads and I didn't feel it flowed so much. I liked hearing Bill Frisell himself speak, but he seemed to have a shy, laid-back personality. That actually worked most of the time.

  The best part were the musical numbers. You can tell he's a great artist. He briefly mentioned his wife and daughter, but otherwise we didn't get much of a glimpse of his personal life (UNLESS HIS WHOLE LIFE IS MUSIC).

  This is the 99th film I've seen with Movie Pass.

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  Review by Marc Hauser ★★★★

  Bill is my hero. It’s delightful to see heaps of praise about an actual creative genius for a change. The doc itself is maybe a little shallow, but a ton of performance footage and face-time with Bill makes up for that.

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  Review by Wally Brando Erotic Cosplay ★★★★

  A lot of music I hear is more like a technical exercise. You can go for a walk in the woods and not see a thing and just go for a walk.Or you could go for a walk in the woods and see all this beautiful nature and things around you.And that comes in and out in your music. Bill is one of the few cats on the scene today that has such beautiful qualities about expression and peacefullness, and he lets that come through.

  I love Jim Woodring and Jim Hall, and John Zorn, and this guy's hanging out with all of em.

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  Review by Fred0 ★★★½

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  Bill Frisell is a marvel. This documentary shows this by creating, however awkward, a balance between performance footage, talking head testimonials, and ample interview segments with the man himself. A couple of decades ago, I was given a bootleg CD recording of Bill talking about his work and life and was fascinated by it: he has a unique, quiet way of speaking - with unusual pauses in the middle of sentences or words, sometimes seeming surprised at hearing his spoken words, as if the guitar was his preferred method of communication, or a complete shift of direction before e v e n t u a l l y returning to the original topic at hand -…

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  Review by Rob Patrick ★★

  A stop-motion, Peter Gabriel-like animation of my eyes slowly rolling into the back of my skull from boredom.

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  Review by Mr. M ★★

  Вроде Фризелл такой знаковый мужик для джаза, и народу дофига разного в качестве говорящих голов взяли, но все это не работает и с трудом досмотрел.