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- 2019
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 35 m
- 2019
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 35 m
Summary David Crosby reflects on his life of music stardom, while forging new oaths to relevancy at his age of 77 in this deeply personal documentary.
Directed By: A.J. Eaton
- 2019
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 35 m
- 2019
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 35 m
David Crosby: Remember My Name
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Summary David Crosby reflects on his life of music stardom, while forging new oaths to relevancy at his age of 77 in this deeply personal documentary.
Directed By: A.J. Eaton
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
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5% Mixed
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A brilliantly realized, Hollywood-sleek documentary produced by Cameron Crowe, A-list director and onetime boy wonder Rolling Stone reporter who not only conducts the film’s current interviews, but is also shown at age 16 in 1974 doing his first interview with Crosby.
What makes David Crosby: Remember My Name one of the best rock documentaries of all time is the no-bull immediacy of the filmmaking.
While the documentary does conjure up the whole sex-drugs-rock ’n’ roll ethos of that fabled time with great flair and pungency, it also movingly probes the hazards and costs of the overindulgence and self-deceptions the era’s lures often entailed. In essence, it serves up the myth and a necessary corrective to it simultaneously.
Remarkably, it never comes across as fawning or hagiographic. Instead, Crosby and his interviewers collaborate to create something that feels honest and insightful.
Famously prickly, Crosby never gets really angry in “Remember My Name,” although at one point he yells at Eaton about the filmmaker not being able to set up a good shot (Crosby comes by the expertise honestly: His father, Floyd Crosby, was an Oscar-winning cinematographer).
Documentaries are utterly reliant on their subject to be appealing, and while “Remember My Name” does soften him a bit, it’s hard to make the case that it merits a total reevaluation of the man and his music.
The film is sure to be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the beginnings of the California folk-rock scene. Crosby’s reflections are interesting, if not always illuminating. Crowe asks probing questions, yet the answers Crosby provides don’t dig very deep.
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Production Company
Vinyl Films,
BMG,
PCH Films
Release Date Jul 19, 2019
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
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Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Boulder International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
