Patti Smith: Under Review (2007)

With rare and previously unseen performance footage, rare film, interviews with Patti Smith and with those who know her best, location shoots and lengthy contributions from friends, colleagues and esteemed experts, this program closely examines the astonishing music she has been making through three decades. It also includes interviews with her first publisher and biographer, Victor Bockris; her ex-songwriting partner, Blue Oyster Cults Albert Bouchard; engineer on Horses, Frank DAugusta; producer of Radio Ethiopia, Jack Douglas; engineer on the Easter sessions, Shelly Yakus; author of Horses and the Remaking of Rock n Roll, Mark Paytress, English music journalist and author,

Good Documentary...

I love Patti Smith. This documentary focuses on here first 4 lps on Arista. "Horses", Radio Ethiopia", "Easter" and "Wave". They do a very short few minutes on her latter CDs but not as indepth as the first four that defined Patti to the masses.

I gave this 4 stars out of five only due to the fact that after reading the back cover synopsis you can't tell if there are full performances or just clips. It just says includes performances of...

The performances they show are so short and some the audio does nto match the video. They even say there are performances of Patti in the recording studio which I must have missed???

Other than that fact this documentary is done very well. I was only dissapointed in that it wasn't clear on if these included the performances it raves about .But all in all it was very well done. Made me want to pull out all my Patti Cds and blast them.LOUD!

I wish that some day full, whole live performances will be released on DVD.

If you love Patti Smith this is a nice addition to your collection but if your looking for anything but background stories on punk and Patti Smith you can skip this and keep your $20. November 5, 2008

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