2019 Directed by A.J. Eaton
You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind. With unflinching honesty, self-examination, regret, fear, exuberance and an unshakable belief in family and the transformative nature of music, Crosby shares his often challenging journey.
David Crosby - Remember My Name, David Crosby : Remember My Name, דיוויד קרוסבי: זכור את שמי, 데이비드 크로스비: 포크 음악의 산증인, David Crosby: Esse é Meu Nome, Девід Кросбі: Запам’ятайте моє ім’я, 大卫·克罗斯比：请以我的名字记住我
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Sundance Film Festival
South Korea
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
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South Korea
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Time is the final currency.
I really love documentaries. I was not overly familiar with David Crosby, but had heard the name and some of the songs over the years. Plus, Cameron Crowe was the producer of David Crosby: Remember My Name, so I decided to check it out. Some of it was for superfans or people who were at least really familiar with their world. David Crosby refers to CSN/CSNY, which took me a moment to break down that he was talking about Crosby, Stills, Nash and the next incarnation of the band that was Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Nobody talks about death.
But there were a ton of things that I had no idea of knowing like:…
favorite part of this was learning that the way joni mitchell dumped david crosby was that she announced to a group of their friends that she had a new song to show everybody, proceeded to perform "that song about the midway" for the whole crowd, and when she finished the song she stared at crosby hatefully, then started playing it again.
(watched at AFI docs film festival)
I may be grading on a curve, because there are so damn many "remember this, boomers?" documentaries and this one blows them away.
That's mostly because of the subject, though I've seen awful documentaries about interesting musicians. Crosby has aged from a smug asshole into a wistful, funny folk-pop elder statesman, and the archival material is superb. We don't just hear that Crosby was impossible to deal with; we see a long, cringe-inducing clip of him commandeering a CSNY media hit, buzzed and over-confident, to ramble about politics. We don't just hear about his decline, we see a montage of clips revealing just how bloated and phoned-in he became for a long stretch of the 1970s.
This very easily could have been a sloppy Behind the Music clip job, and instead it's sad and insightful and memorable.
With Cameron Crowe’s guiding hand, I expected this to be a soulful and refreshingly change-of-pace type of music doc, and it certainly delivered. More fixated on time and mortality than most career-spanning music docs I’ve seen, with the exception of the AMAZING Bill Withers doc from last decade, Still Bill. Croz is definitely my favorite member of CSN and this is definitely one of my favorite films of the year.
(added to 2019 Favorites)
Happy 80th
I'm not sure if I'd describe croz as my spirit animal so much as my "spirit aa sponsor." But I certainly feel he validated the notion of csny being elected into the rnr hall of fame (separate from csn) so he can be inducted 3 times (as he puts it) "just to piss clapton off"
☆"I'm afraid. I'm afraid of dyin'. And I'm close. And I don't like it. I'd like to have more time. A lot."☆
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RIP Crosby.
Before watching this film, despite my love of classic rock, I really just had a shameful lack of awareness of the significance of David Crosby. So, after enjoying this informative and free-wheeling documentary from A.J. Eaton, David Crosby: Remember My Name, I now have a greater appreciation for the legend who died doing what he loved: making music until the end. This Grammy-nominated film is a fitting tribute to the man who passed away yesterday, and I'm happy to have put aside my watchlist for…
David Crosby is such an asshole. And continues to be one. I don’t think he has learned how to not be one throughout his life no matter what it does to his career or relationships in his life. Check out his twitter, it’s a nightmare. But I love his music and this documentary is pretty great.
“i’m afraid to die. and i’m close. i don’t like it. i’d like to have more time. a lot more time.”
losing croz has really instilled a fear in me, more so than any other recent musician’s passing. the few great artists we have left feel immortal. i guess that’s why we can somehow feel shocked when an 81 year old man dies. because like his songs, he was supposed to always be here. someone as talented as david crosby will live forever through his music, but it was a comfort to have him around. even if it meant trash talking the doors on twitter.
wait did i just see crosby’s ass ??
these guys are kinda gay for how obsessed with each other they are…
would smoke with
edit: rip legend 😭❤️
I can respect an asshole a lot more when he’s at least aware he’s an asshole. David Crosby is one of those guys. This documentary is a very honest and personal look at Crosby’s life and he gets very candid about his relationships with his friends and his former band mates.
Cameron Crowe produces the movie, but also does all interviewing. Unfortunately, due to the state of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young the rest of the members of the band only speak in archived interviews, most of which are 20 years old. The film is not the most user friendly if you aren’t that knowledgeable of Crosby’s career, but it’s a very rewarding watch for a fan.
The last 15 minutes of this documentary are actually quite sad. I was surprised to see the direction it took. It doesn’t gloss over the tragedy around Crosby’s life.
I'll watch any doc centered around musicians my late father admired.
More than just a puff piece, it's an extensive history of an imperfect man who's at least genuine in his piggish arrogance, mainly told by the man himself.
