A Band Called Death
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Bobby Hackney, Dannis Hackney, David Hackney
- Summary: A documentary on the 1970s punk band Death, and their new-found popularity decades after they broke up.
- Director: Jeff Howlett
- Genre(s): Documentary
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90And then would come this generous, spirited documentary, to capture one of the strangest and most inspiring of all family stories of tragedy and triumph that this crazy country has produced.
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Jun 26, 201390A beautiful tale of life, love, music, and family, of things not working out but also working out just as predicted.
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90Joy and redemption aren't exactly punk mantras, but A Band Called Death might just give your heart a thrashing.
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75The film is made impetuously watchable and disarmingly emotional by the filmmakers' strong command of docudrama and nonfiction narrative style.
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75Like the recent "Searching for Sugar Man," A Band Called Death celebrates music born in Detroit that, with a turn of the wrist and a different roll of the dice, might've found the audience it deserved the first time.
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75The film springs to life in its second half, when the members’ grown kids, who are also working musicians, discover that their dads/uncles were in a forgotten, innovative band that the family had never once mentioned.
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60Too much of the doc takes our taste for granted; Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins and others won’t persuade you that Death could have been huge, nor does a clichéd last-act reunion show. But the film’s alternating inquiry — into family love, slow compromise and, yes, death — resonates strongly.
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