2021 Directed by T.J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay
Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female African American artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It’s the ultimate story of survival – and an inspirational story of our times.
Will Clarke Nancy Abraham Lisa Heller Simon Chinn Jonathan Chinn Andy Mayson David Gilbery Mike Runagall Diane Becker Charles Dorfman Erwin Bach Tali Pelman
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I just love it so much when a documentary feels like it really understands and honours the energy of its subject, rather than remaining at some kind of sterile distance. You get such a vivid sense of her personality, without losing any of the facts of what she went through, or devolving into melodrama or stereotype. She always has been a superstar, that's not news, but it's exciting to have a film, hopefully the last/definitive one, emanating love and power just as much as she does.
You could probably make a 20 hour long docuseries about Tina Turner's life and still not come close to exhaustively portraying her eventful life and career, but they did a great job here.
The film also shows how the journalists have the audacity to ask FEMALE artists the questions no one would have the balls to ask MALE artists. How fucking dare you go "so let's talk about that guy who abused you" instead of asking her about her work? And same crap from the female journalists as well. Disgraceful. Reminded me of how when #MeToo started the women were bombarded with questions but no one was demanding answers from the men or what passes for a "man" in Hollywood…
TINA TURNER: I wish people didn’t bring up Ike so much. I’ve moved on.
TINA DOC: [talks about Ike for 90 mins and does not move on]
As the song goes, she’s simply the greatest! Three and a half stars!
LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!!
When I found out there was a new documentary coming out I was so excited! Growing up with her songs throughout my life and then of course when the film "What's Love Got To Do With It" came out I had no clue how bad and abusive her relationship with Ike was. Angela Bassett playing Tina was superb and astonishing. And it is really one of those types of films you watch once. I remembered I was not a big fan of Laurence Fishburne afterwards because his performance was strong. But of course yes I watch his movies now.
I've always loved Tina's hair.
Never seen her in concert.
Owned all of her hits and in fact…
According to some people, musical biopics have a problem in the sense that, for personal reasons, they sanitize the lives of artists and bands. Sometimes, they show some of the conflicts, they show the abusive husband behind the great artist, they show the substances and their abuse, but all of this is sanitized or poorly executed as in Netflix's Motley Crue biopic.
I say all this because I was taken back by the way this documentary kicks off and ran for most of its runtime. In just three minutes, the documentary shows us that Irke was the devil incarnate, a pioneer but also a disgrace for humanity. Rather than start with the positive and beautiful, the documentary spends most of…
this is such a solid documentary in my opinion. you can really tell real love was put into this. it is truly a beautiful goodbye to an amazing career. my personal favorite parts was the help! part, especially with the dialogue right before. it makes the song hit you even harder. and then at the end hearing her husband speak about her OH I TEARED UP!!!
i’ll end this by saying the same things as the icon angela bassett, tina turner is adored by so many. her story is so inspiring. she truly is an icon. definitely give this a watch!!
If your viewing experience doesn’t end with you in a pile on the floor/looking up every 80s Tina Turner music video/wishing you could resurrect Ike Turner’s corpse so you can kill him yourself then I don’t know i guess we didn’t watch the same movie.
Simply the best (music documentary I’ve seen in years).
Co-directors Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin have compiled a well-organised summation of Grammy Award-winning Tina Turner's life and career with their documentary Tina. Beginning with her career performing live as the showstopping front-woman in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue to her advancement to solo pop stardom, it gives an account of the singer's life that examines its many highs and lows.
While the spectre of Ike unavoidably looms over the story, Lindsay and Martin consciously squash any sense of victimhood regarding the now well known mental, physical and emotional abuse. They spend some time looking at an interview she did with Carl Arrington of People Magazine in 1981, where she spoke openly about her time with Ike, which, she thought,…
I never felt loved, so I decided it wasn't important.
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An exceptionally edited docu-tone-poem, far more interested in its subject's inner life, emotional wounds and whether they heal, dreams wasted or realized, than Billboard rankings.
More importantly, it addresses her trauma but refuses to make it the fulcrum of her life, placing self-realization at the center.
And now I finally understand what they mean when they say legs for days.
Nothing but the highest respect for the living legend that is Tina Turner. A lot of this stuff is common knowledge, it’s been spoken about, wrote about and had movies made about it, but we’ve not seen it straight from Tina’s mouth, and because with this we have Tina telling her story it makes for an even tougher and more upsetting watch. The abuse that this woman endured is horrifying, and the fact that it has affected her life so much that she thought at one point that the bad outweighed the good, that is so sad, life is so cruel. Tina is a great lady, a tremendous rockstar and admirable human being, her story is heartbreaking but also inspiring. For music lovers this is an essential watch.
