Laurel Canyon: Season 1

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EPIX | Season Premiere Date: May 31, 2020

Summary: The two-part documentary about the artists who lived in the Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1960s-70s was directed by Alison Ellwood and features audio clips, footage and new interviews with Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Roger McGuinn, Graham Nash, Michelle Phillips, Bonnie Raitt, and Linda Ronstadt.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Music

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S1:E2. (S1:E2)
Air Date: June 7, 2020
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S1:E1. (S1:E1)
Air Date: May 31, 2020

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Glenn Garvin

May 30, 2020

That's just one of the many delicious, hilarious, fascinating, and sometimes poignant anecdotes in Epix's two-part Laurel Canyon, one of the great rock 'n' roll documentaries of all time. Read full review

Chris Willman

Jun 1, 2020

“Laurel Canyon” is a nearly four-hour exercise in bliss, throwing us back to a fleeting time when musical warmth and formal excellence went hand in hand and made the whole world want to go “California Dreamin’.” With apologies to Joni Mitchell, this, not Woodstock, is the garden you’ll be left wanting to get back to. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jun 1, 2020

Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time is immersive rather than analytical. The director has a sure feel for the essence of the period and its players, and for the social and emotional impact of their songs. Thanks to a superbly curated wealth of material and the ace editing of Anoosh Tertzakian, a world comes alive within the doc's relatively brief running time (the two episodes each clock in under 90 minutes). Read full review

Tracy Moore

Jul 7, 2020

Ellwood isn’t telling us what to make of all this in the context of 2020, not any more than her subjects seem able to. They simply were as they were, and A Place in Time is merely a snapshot of a particularly fertile yet myopically flawed moment of youth culture. (Most of the good ones are both.) Read full review

Joel Keller

Jun 24, 2020

The lack of talking heads does get a tad monotonous, as does the constant identification of each voice speaking, but it’s a small price to pay for the fascinating stories that were collected from the archival interviews. Laurel Canyon really evokes the magic of the late ’60s and early ’70s and the area that generated so much fantastic music. Read full review

Richard Roeper

May 29, 2020

“Laurel Canyon” is more of a straightforward documentary. It features dozens of talking-head (and off-camera) interviews old and new and footage of the likes of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, the Doors and more. ... But there are cool little trivia nuggets sprinkled throughout. Read full review

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truerock

Jun 9, 2020

So... I see Laurel Canyon listed with numerous recommendations from reputable critics. It's on Epix which is a new channel my CATV provider had added because it had taken Cinemax off of a basic subscription package.

So, for the first time I have a reason to watch something on Epix and isSo... I see Laurel Canyon listed with numerous recommendations from reputable critics. It's on Epix which is a new channel my CATV provider had added because it had taken Cinemax off of a basic subscription package.

So, for the first time I have a reason to watch something on Epix and is was well worth my time.

I guess anyone who knows even a little bit about the history of rock-and-roll has heard of Laurel Canyon and the impact the artists who lived their had on musical culture.

But, I was pleasantly surprised to learn a lot of things about the history of 1960's Laurel Canyon that I had never known. For example, somehow I just never knew about the overlap of The Monkeys and Frank Zappa. I recommend this documentary to anyone interested in the history of rock music.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 31, 2020
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  S1:E2. (S1:E2)
  Air Date: June 7, 2020
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  S1:E2. (S1:E2)
  Air Date: June 7, 2020
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  S1:E1. (S1:E1)
  Air Date: May 31, 2020
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  S1:E1. (S1:E1)
  Air Date: May 31, 2020