Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
by Joe Boyd, John Head, Gary Weis
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Actor: Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Pete TownshendDirector: Gary Weis, Joe Boyd, John Head
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 69846
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Jimi Hendrix
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Movie Reviews of Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
Movie Review: Not perfect, but still gives me goose bumps...(because of Jimi of course)
Summary: 5 Stars
103 minutes, 1973 (two years after Jimi died) documentary with concert footage, Dick Cavett show with an awkward host and a somewhat shy Jimi and my favorite: just Jimi, on a stool with his acoustic guitar playing "Hear My Train A 'Coming": I wish he'd done a whole album of this type of material. (Too bad he was hanging out with the wrong crowd as evident at the end of "Hear My Train...", where he's seen in a limo with two stoned women.)
Lots of talking-heads-interviews, but they're interesting heads in this context and young and "pre-haggard", a few examples: Eric Clapton (cute then!) Pete Townsend is there, Mick Jagger sounding and looking like a strange kid. Little Richard in his most flamboyant queen mode, but you can't take your eyes off him. Jimi's NYC girl friend Faye P. give some good insight, although she's not as articulate as one might have hoped for. And some strung-out woman with bad teeth drinking and smoking and talking a mile-a-minute in a hoarse voice about Jimi - creepy. The German woman Monica who left him to choke on his vomit in September of 1971 in London gets to say a few words - Sharon Lawrence in her new book has nothing but contempt for Monica (who killed herself years later in her garage with the engine running.) Jimi's Dad Al takes on the phony role of loving father - he's the one who refused Jimi and his younger brother Leon to attend their mother Lucille's funeral in the late 50s - Jimi never got over that - it was a great source of his pain (which he channeled into his music). Al Hendrix later married a part Asian-American lady and had a greedy daughter who now heads the company that is milking every penny out of Jimi's estate. (This is all detailed in Sharon Lawrence's book).
The concert footage is amazing, not because of great camera work, but because of Jimi - anytime he's on camera is pure magic. There'll never be another Hendrix. He would have been 63 on November 27.
Note: Unfortunately there are no interviews with Kathy E., his girlfriend in London whom he loved and with whom he had a two-year relationship with. And likewise, there is no word from the (now late) Chad Chandler of the Animals who brought Jimi to London and became his manager after hearing him play in a NYC club. We do get to hear/watch Linda Keith, who was the one who brought Chad to that club in NYC where Jimi was playing and could therefore be considered the real "discoverer" of Jimi although Chandler usually gets credit for this.
So, although there is a lot of info missing and some very important people are missing here, it's still a must for Hendrix fans. Again: Seeing/hearing Jimi play the acoustic blues tune "Hear My Train A 'Comin" alone (as pictured on the cover) is worth the price "of admission".
Summary of Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
The long-awaited Deluxe Edition of the 1973 theatrical documentary Jimi Hendrix is loaded with extras and completely remastered and remixed to provide exceptional sound and picture quality. This is the biography of Jimi Hendrix, the world-famous guitaristSimilar DVD Movies
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