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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars and pins its hopes on a new leader's promise for change, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune is a timely and relevant tribute to an unlikely American hero. Over the course of a meteoric music career that spanned two turbulent decades, Phil Ochs sought the bright lights of fame and s...

Directed By: Kenneth Bowser

Written By: Kenneth Bowser

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 36 m

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars and pins its hopes on a new leader's promise for change, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune is a timely and relevant tribute to an unlikely American hero. Over the course of a meteoric music career that spanned two turbulent decades, Phil Ochs sought the bright lights of fame and s...

Directed By: Kenneth Bowser

Written By: Kenneth Bowser

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91
Jan 20, 2011
At once an unsentimental portrait of the ambitious singer who thought himself bound for glory, and an affecting elegy for a time when song was a form of revolution.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 4, 2011
Beautiful and melodic as well as pointedly political.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW

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80
Jan 4, 2011
Briskly constructed and rich in Ochs' music and period notables, Kenneth Bowser's film will be a must for the artist's fans, but its fresh take on an overexamined decade should also appeal to Kennedy-era completists.
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70
Jan 5, 2011
The story told by Mr. Bowser's film is complicated and tragic.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 4, 2011
Though hewing to a too-conventional structure, Bowser's film is densely researched enough to yield insights not just into its overlooked subject, but also into his overly analyzed era.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 4, 2011
It's a well-constructed and long-overdue tribute, yet Fortune refrains from delving into larger questions that surround Ochs's work. Did the singer's unwavering dedication to agitpop leave him stranded in the '60s? And does Ochs's diminished legacy among today's essentially apolitical neofolkies amount to a second tragedy?
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50
Mar 17, 2011
Not only is a good look at a man who carved a small but important niche into the folk world but a good record of the turbulent 1960s and what motivated its protesters.
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Production Company S2BN Entertainment
Release Date Jan 5, 2011
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://firstrunfeatures.com/philochs/
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