The Man, His World, His Music
by Robert Elfstrom
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Actor: Anita Carter, Helen Carter, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Mother Maybelle CarterDirector: Robert Elfstrom
Cinematographer: Robert Elfstrom
Writer: Robert Elfstrom
Editor: Lawrence Silk
Producer: Arthur Barron
Producer: Evelyn Barron
Producer: Harry Wiland
Producer: Roy Herkin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo; English (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Cherry Red
Movie Reviews of The Man, His World, His Music
Movie Review: Riveting
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Oh, and Joachin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon this is NOT. Forget about Walk the Line. This is the real thing here.
It really gives you insight into Johnny Cash's background and the inspiration for his music.
I learned about this film when I was traveling on business and was just flipping channels on TV and landed on the channel running the film. I was immediately drawn into it but I had come in on the middle and after seeing the remainder I wanted to see what I had missed. I couldn't find it listed anywhere else running on TV and so I found it online and purchased it. I'm very happy with the purchase. I even showed it to my adult kids and they enjoyed it very much also.
My favorite parts are when he is in the dressing room after receiving the CMA album of the year award in Nashville and someone has introduced him to a kid who is a singer song-writer and he tells the kid to play his best stuff for him. The attention and encouragement he paid to that kid was just amazing. There are other similar scenes where he patiently and humbly gives his time to fans.
Another scene is of him peering through the windows of his childhood home, a share-cropper house in Arkansas upon returning for a visit there. The home is long abandoned. Then he and June Carter Cash enter the house through the back door and he reminisces about living in that house and his childhood. Haunting to me. I grew up on a farm in Arkansas and that whole scene really connected with me but I think it would connect with you also even if you didn't grow up on a farm.
The intimate scenes sitting in his living room and singing and talking about songs he had written is very compelling also.
This film is well worth the price and worth watching over and over.
Summary of The Man, His World, His Music
This has the unmistakable whiff of opportunism about it-there is no structure, no narration, nothing by way of accompanying information, and much of the concert footage looks like it was filmed by someone whose other eye was engaged reading the instruction manual for the camera. Despite--or, just maybe, because of--these limitations, it offers some genuine revelations of its subject. And, in fairness, the concert footage that is filmed properly is marvelous.The material collected here was apparently filmed in the late '60s and offers a series of snapshots of Cash on one of his famously interminable tours. He is shown playing to audiences of fans, maximum-security prisoners, and feather-clad Native American dignitaries, and he is shown away from the stage, playing cards on the tour bus, jamming with friends, and further reinforcing his then-unfashionable interest in Native American issues with a visit to the site of the Wounded Knee massacre. Also of interest are the other performers that wander through this random travelogue: Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, in a duet with him on "Jackson"; Cash's lead guitarist, Carl Perkins, taking the spotlight to sing his creation "Blue Suede Shoes"; and, best of all, Cash, grinning from ear to ear and quite unabashedly overawed, recording a glorious duet of Billy Edd Wheeler's "Blistered" with an insouciant, gum-chewing Bob Dylan. --Andrew Mueller, Amazon.co.uk
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