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It's Never Over. Jeff Buckley 2025.
The shorth life and untimely death of Jeff Buckley death, or another in the catalogue of Jeff's surviving friends and relatives telling all to whoever is prepared to listen.
That does sound cynical, it is meant to be.
Lets get back to basics, I love Jeff Buckley, I was privileged to have seen him in 1993 (date maybe wrong), at Reading Festival. It wasn't the main stage it was the upcoming alternative stage . He was the penultimate 4th from last on the bill. Headline acts were the Tindersticks, American Music Club and Jeff Buckley . What a line up. It was the last Reading festival I ever went to and what a way to end it all. (I forgot to mention They Might Be Giants were also in that bill. All of the acts had an aching melancholy beauty, not so much TMBG.
What I'm getting at is I was a fan of Jeff, more so a massive fan of Tim Buckley, which I guess would have pissed Jeff off a bit. He is at pains throughout the film to tell us he wasn't anything like his late estranged father Tim.
So what we get from the film, is various taste makers, relatives, friends, lovers, and Jeff of course bigging up the myth of Jeff Buckley.
Jeff like's blowing his own trumpet.
This is where the films fall flat I've heard it all before. Likewise the majority of the footage is old and expertly cobbled together from other sources.
Musically it is great, but overall its pretty sad, his early accidental demise and his estrangement from both his father and at times his mother.
Notable absences are his step dad who brought him up and of course the Cocteau's Liz Fraser, who he briefly had an affair.
I still listen to his music, Grace is a wonderful album.
But I can take it or leave all the footage of his acolytes feeding at his feet.
A disappointing 6/10
I hope to see at some point Dream Brother the drama about Tim and Jeff Buckley brief and fruitless relationship, being a drama it will at least be fun.
The shorth life and untimely death of Jeff Buckley death, or another in the catalogue of Jeff's surviving friends and relatives telling all to whoever is prepared to listen.
That does sound cynical, it is meant to be.
Lets get back to basics, I love Jeff Buckley, I was privileged to have seen him in 1993 (date maybe wrong), at Reading Festival. It wasn't the main stage it was the upcoming alternative stage . He was the penultimate 4th from last on the bill. Headline acts were the Tindersticks, American Music Club and Jeff Buckley . What a line up. It was the last Reading festival I ever went to and what a way to end it all. (I forgot to mention They Might Be Giants were also in that bill. All of the acts had an aching melancholy beauty, not so much TMBG.
What I'm getting at is I was a fan of Jeff, more so a massive fan of Tim Buckley, which I guess would have pissed Jeff off a bit. He is at pains throughout the film to tell us he wasn't anything like his late estranged father Tim.
So what we get from the film, is various taste makers, relatives, friends, lovers, and Jeff of course bigging up the myth of Jeff Buckley.
Jeff like's blowing his own trumpet.
This is where the films fall flat I've heard it all before. Likewise the majority of the footage is old and expertly cobbled together from other sources.
Musically it is great, but overall its pretty sad, his early accidental demise and his estrangement from both his father and at times his mother.
Notable absences are his step dad who brought him up and of course the Cocteau's Liz Fraser, who he briefly had an affair.
I still listen to his music, Grace is a wonderful album.
But I can take it or leave all the footage of his acolytes feeding at his feet.
A disappointing 6/10
I hope to see at some point Dream Brother the drama about Tim and Jeff Buckley brief and fruitless relationship, being a drama it will at least be fun.
Benighted 2022
An army troop, is lost in France, presumably part of the British Expedition Force in early 1939.
Their confusion and bickering to get back to the rest of their army is highlighted through the bickering of the young soldiers and the collapsing mental state of the group's Sargent.
The brevity of the film isn't an issue when you consider the groups brutal, untimely and shocking end.
It's a great film and a genuinely nice surprise to find this on YouTube.
6/10.
An army troop, is lost in France, presumably part of the British Expedition Force in early 1939.
Their confusion and bickering to get back to the rest of their army is highlighted through the bickering of the young soldiers and the collapsing mental state of the group's Sargent.
The brevity of the film isn't an issue when you consider the groups brutal, untimely and shocking end.
It's a great film and a genuinely nice surprise to find this on YouTube.
6/10.
Overlord 1975
A curious film, a low budget movie depicting a soldiers path to D Day. From his conscription, training and eventual landing in Normandy.
The new recruits fears and sense of foreboding are realised in the visualisation of his dreams.
Filmed in black & white which gives the film a much older feel (I thought it was filmed in the 60s) also it's use of stock footage from the 2nd world war, over half the film uses this. This makes for a somewhat disjointed film but more realistic, due to the actors scene being predominantly low key and under played.
Interesting and well worth a look.
7/10.
A curious film, a low budget movie depicting a soldiers path to D Day. From his conscription, training and eventual landing in Normandy.
The new recruits fears and sense of foreboding are realised in the visualisation of his dreams.
Filmed in black & white which gives the film a much older feel (I thought it was filmed in the 60s) also it's use of stock footage from the 2nd world war, over half the film uses this. This makes for a somewhat disjointed film but more realistic, due to the actors scene being predominantly low key and under played.
Interesting and well worth a look.
7/10.
