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- 2013
- Unrated
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 23 m
- 2013
- Unrated
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 23 m
Summary A documentary on Levon Helm, a founding member of The Band, begun during the creation of his first studio album in 25 years.
Directed By: Jacob Hatley
- 2013
- Unrated
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 23 m
- 2013
- Unrated
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 23 m
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
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Summary A documentary on Levon Helm, a founding member of The Band, begun during the creation of his first studio album in 25 years.
Directed By: Jacob Hatley
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
76
89% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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This is one of the most fully rounded, unsentimental portraits of an artist you'll ever see on film.
Despite his flashes of bitterness, the Helm captured here seems like a man at peace with where he ended up — however taxing the road that brought him, however many friends lost or discarded along the way.
Mostly, you see a prolific artist going out playing—an unsentimental, salt-of-the-earth tribute that keeps the beat in a way that would make this extraordinary journeyman beam.
Unfortunately, Hatley chooses not to offer much context or background history regarding that or other aspects of Helm’s half-century career, other than archival footage of Helm and the Band in their prime, press clippings, and comments from the Band “biographer,” Barney Hoskyns.
The portrait of the ailing artist is bittersweet, but when Helms sings or plays, the look on his face is pure joy.
"Ain't in It" offers a warm and largely satisfying look at a man and his music and, for some, the end of an era.
What keeps Ain’t in It for My Health from being a really satisfying portrait isn’t a lack of access, but a lack of intimacy.
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Production Company
15 to 50
Release Date Apr 19, 2013
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
