Tag Archives: Music and Musicians

Springsteen Debuts The Ties That Bind on HBO

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Judith Trojan

If you’ve had your fill of turkey, touchdowns and tackling bargains at Target, and you’re a Bruce Springsteen fan, you won’t want to miss the HBO debut of The Ties that Bind tonight, Friday, November 27, 2015 (9:00 – 10:00 p.m.).  Check listings … Continue reading →

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Scientology and Sinatra: All or Nothing at All on HBO

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Judith Trojan

Director Alex Gibney is on a roll. The Oscar and Emmy Award winner’s latest two documentaries landed prestigious back-to-back premiere time slots on HBO, and deservedly so. I’m still shaken by Gibney’s riveting exposé, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of … Continue reading →

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Seymour: An Introduction

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Judith Trojan

  It may have an unassuming title, but Seymour:  An Introduction, the new documentary directed by Ethan Hawke, is anything but humdrum. Hawke, the gifted Oscar-nominated actor (Training Day; Boyhood) and screenwriter (Before Sunset; Before Midnight), who has also enjoyed a career as a director and … Continue reading →

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Finding Vivian Maier and 20 Feet from Stardom

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Judith Trojan

Coincidentally, two of the best documentaries I’ve seen lately focus on women who spent a good part, if not all, of their creative lives hiding in plain sight. Director Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet from Stardom capped a year of accolades with a … Continue reading →

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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song To Be Rebroadcast on PBS

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Judith Trojan

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s oft-quoted, “there are no second acts in American lives,” has clearly become a cliché in this age of uber-reinvention; and there is no better example of the latter than Pete Seeger, who defied that cliché well into his ninth “act.” Pete Seeger (1919 … Continue reading →

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