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- 2023
- Pink Moon
- 1 h 26 m
- 2023
- Pink Moon
- 1 h 26 m
Summary What began as a straightforward documentary about the cult rock band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an exploration of time, death, family, and the transcendent power of music to change lives. But with jokes.
Directed By: Toby Amies
Written By: Toby Amies
- 2023
- Pink Moon
- 1 h 26 m
- 2023
- Pink Moon
- 1 h 26 m
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
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Summary What began as a straightforward documentary about the cult rock band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an exploration of time, death, family, and the transcendent power of music to change lives. But with jokes.
Directed By: Toby Amies
Written By: Toby Amies
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If you are not a King Crimson fan, but love music or are interested in the process of making music, then, you should consider watching this documentary anyway.
In the Court of the Crimson King is really about as good as rock documentaries get, in capturing the essence of a group of musicians and how they relate to each other, the world and a muse whose demands result in literal and figurative calluses.
Each personality comes across with honesty and humility as they encounter age, death, and performance without compromise and on their terms or stage of choice.
Rarely does a music documentary so vividly evoke both the artistic approach and the tricky personality of its subject.
There’s nothing sentimental about this documentary, which looks at people with the clear, unflinching gaze of a portraitist.
Fripp, an endlessly thoughtful and meticulously articulate guitarist, is the group’s most tireless and paradoxical explainer in the film.
Even if you have zero interest in “Crimson” or Crimson, see this lovely film to check out an unbelievable badass who never let the specter of death win (and an extremely cool nun).
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Production Company
DGM Live,
Succulent Pictures
Release Date Nov 3, 2023
Duration 1 h 26 m
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Tagline A film by Toby Amies recording the relentless suffering and fleeting glory of playing in the world's most demanding rock band: King Crimson. Contains extraordinary music, complex time signatures, meditations on mortality, and bad jokes
Website
http://www.itcotck.com/
Awards
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
