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Post by musedeva on Apr 19, 2019 2:38:14 GMT -5
OMGawdesS! "For Karaoke Queens" hahahahaha...oh gawd...that is GOOD!!!
what a line up! Gorbachev looks awesome
LindaCitaaahh in GREAT company here!
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Post by PoP80 on Apr 19, 2019 12:35:50 GMT -5
The documentary is being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in NY this month!
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 19, 2019 15:10:07 GMT -5
Seems Pop popped in to say that and did not read the entire thread. I pointed it out as I liked the "Pop popped in" part. Any NJ showings, Rob? Don't think I want to head up to the Village to only find a line down the street or the like. eddiejinnj
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Post by PoP80 on Apr 19, 2019 16:20:54 GMT -5
Sorry, Eddie. I do pop in and out of the forum--my bad! Anyhow, I'm sure it will appear somewhere else after the TFF or even on TV. Hope you get to see it!
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Post by RobGNYC on Apr 19, 2019 16:34:17 GMT -5
Seems Pop popped in to say that and did not read the entire thread. I pointed it out as I liked the "Pop popped in" part. Any NJ showings, Rob? Don't think I want to head up to the Village to only find a line down the street or the like. eddiejinnj So far these are the only showings. I'm going on the 26th. Likely to get a much wider release after the festival run, like Aretha's "Amazing Grace" documentary. 8:30 PM - FRI 4/26 STELLA ARTOIS THEATRE @ BMCC. After the Premiere Screening: A special performance from 9 time Grammy® award winner, rock legend Sheryl Crow in celebration of Linda Ronstadt-$30.00 9:30 PM - SAT 4/27 REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-$24.00 8:45 PM - MON 4/29 VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-$24.00
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 19, 2019 19:21:27 GMT -5
No prob Pop it no biggie I just like pop popped in. I read the Village show was free. I thought why would they do that. eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 20, 2019 5:05:26 GMT -5
I can only guess at the approach this documentary will take but I hope it focuses (at least in part) on the cultural influence of Linda Ronstadt. Aretha Franklin has been in the news lately and to my mind at least there are significant parallels and comparisons between the two not only what they meant to the cultures they came from but also the culture they influenced, the American culture. Aretha within the sphere of Black American culture and soul music and Linda within the Latin American culture and Mexican-Latin music. Both have brought a sense of pride, worth and inclusiveness to all those living within the confines of some difficult times in our nation. Having participated in a march for immigrant human rights with Linda (Phoenix 2010) I came to appreciate her in a whole different way. She truly cares about her "causes" and definitely walks the walk. Few know about or appreciate her efforts because she is humble and always kind. (except maybe in politics lol but I can relate)
For anyone new to this message or the forum please follow this thread for more on this topic: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/4570/cultural-influence-linda-ronstadtImmigrant March - Phoenix, Arizona January 16, 2010Linda at 3:14 behind the Stop the Hate sign. I know this had to be a grueling few mile walk for her but she did it. Sheriff Joe Arpaio had the loudspeakers blaring Linda Ronstadt music (Different Drum) as we passed by his county jail. Linda spoke at the rally's end.
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Post by Guest on Apr 20, 2019 10:01:31 GMT -5
The Friday, April 26th Premiere screening is Sold Out. Tickets for Saturday 27th and Monday 29th still available.
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Post by Dianna on Apr 20, 2019 19:26:02 GMT -5
No premiere on the West Coast?
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Post by erik on Apr 20, 2019 19:49:37 GMT -5
Quote by Dianna:
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. As I've said, it would seem that after its Tribeca debut, CNN (whose CNN Films is helping distribute it) will air it. If, however, it does well at Tribeca, it should go into wide cinematic release.
And I think a DVD release is inevitable.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 20, 2019 20:07:01 GMT -5
The Friday, April 26th Premiere screening is Sold Out. Tickets for Saturday 27th and Monday 29th still available. Reminds me that Saturday April 27 marks 47 years ago that I met Linda. Seems like a lot of water under that bridge. Are dvd's still being made? Unless it gets put online I doubt I will be able to see it so I look forward to comments of those who did.
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Post by erik on Apr 20, 2019 20:47:18 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
So far as I know, yes, DVDs are still being made, since I have acquired FAHRENHEIT 11/9, READY PLAYER ONE, and FIRST MAN in that format, and have ordered APOLLO 11. I really think THE SOUND OF MY VOICE deserves both a wider cinematic release first, and then a DVD release.
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Post by erik on Apr 23, 2019 18:51:33 GMT -5
From Rolling Stone online, a preview of films at Tribeca includes Linda's: www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/25-best-movies-tribeca-film-festival-2019-816637/making-waves-the-art-of-cinematic-sound-816719/‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ “She could sing literally anything,” Dolly Parton says of Linda Ronstadt at the beginning of this engrossing documentary. And the next 95 minutes prove it, following the Arizona native as she lands a record deal from the first note she sings at L.A.’s famed Troubadour in 1964, and scoring major hits in genres from folk to rock, pop to country, American standards to traditional Mexican folk music. There’s testimony from luminaries such as Don Henley and Jackson Browne about the sheer breadth and scope of Ronstadt’s career, as well as the power and versatility of her instrument. MF
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Post by 70smusicfan on Apr 25, 2019 17:49:54 GMT -5
Is anyone going to any of the Tribeca showings? If they sell DVDs of the documentary at the showing, I'll bet a large number of us would buy one, with a generous handling charge. I would.
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Post by erik on Apr 25, 2019 18:40:34 GMT -5
Review from Deadline magazine by Pete Hammond: deadline.com/video/watson-linda-ronstadt/On Friday night Tribeca features the world premiere of a docu about yet another amazing career with Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. The film comes from producer-director James Keach (Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me) and Oscar-winning documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk, The Celluloid Closet), who had the rights to Linda Ronstadt’s autobiography and had her full cooperation. Ronstadt’s life story is played out here with performance footage that will knock your socks off and likely sell millions more albums from her vast catalog.Keach showed me the film at his Culver City production company Wednesday and heads to New York today for Friday night’s premiere. Although he has directed many docus himself, he tells me in this case CNN Films came to him to be a producer, and Epstein and Friedman (who also share producing credits) with Keach and Michele Farinola) signed on to direct. He says it was a very satisfying collaboration and praises the pair. Keach, however, conducted the many interviews in the film including with Ronstadt (who accompanied him to show off her Mexican family roots), Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Aaron Neville, J.D. Souther, David Geffen and more.
As with Watson, the archival footage is deep and revealing, though Keach says the key is how you compile all of it and tell a story. These filmmakers have succeeded in that regard, and it is quite a poignant one considering that Ronstadt, now 72, gave her last concert in 2009, retired in 2011 and no longer can sing due to Parkinson’s disease. It is sad to see that the true love of her life, being able to sing, taken away because of the disease after being diagnosed with it in 2012. She can talk up a storm, though, and the filmmakers have created a format that essentially allows Ronstadt to narrate her own story, much of it culled from a series of live shows in which she reminisced about her life and career after publication of her 2013 autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir. That story also includes her personal life including relationships with then-California Gov. and presidential candidate Jerry Brown, Souther and others.Ronstadt with Jackson Browne The Sound of My Voice is the perfect title for a film that expertly captures why Ronstadt was such a unique performer — a voice that could lend itself to any form of music she tried: folk, rock, pop, Gilbert and Sullivan (she was Tony nominated for The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway opposite Kevin Kline who is also interviewed here), standards orchestrated by none other than Sinatra’s favored arranger Nelson Riddle, Mexican mariachi tunes and on and on. How ironic that amazing musical gift has been silenced due to an unforgiving disease, but the spirit lives on clearly. There won’t be a dry eye during the docu’s closing sequence, where she is reunited with her nephew and cousin as they perform one of the mariachi songs she used to sing with her father. In this sequence she does agree to join them in the only footage of Ronstadt singing since her retirement and diagnosis. She says however, “this wasn’t singing,” but it definitely was a memorable musical moment for a star who knows as well as anyone what great singing is truly all about. Some of the most revealing insights in the docu concern her own doubts about her talents and how her love of music helped overcome them.It’s a constant theme, but the truth for this “girl singer” is that just about everything she touched turned to gold — make that platinum. John Sloss and his Cinetic Media are the sales agents for the theatrical distribution rights. With such an emphasis on movies centering on pop icons from Queen and Elton John to Aretha Franklin, the timing couldn’t be better for this story. “At first when I heard we would be premiering in a 900-seat house for Tribeca, I thought, ‘How are we ever going to fill that?’” Keach told me, while noting that Ronstadt herself won’t be attending. “It completely sold out almost immediately.”
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 25, 2019 18:52:44 GMT -5
No one here would have any doubts it would sell out. It's the power of !!! LINDA !!!
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Post by germancanadian on Apr 25, 2019 21:10:26 GMT -5
One article said that it will air on CNN sometime this year. That's great news, can't wait to see it.
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Post by fabtastique on Apr 26, 2019 0:36:54 GMT -5
Sounds wonderful .... I can’t wait to see it!
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Post by Christine on Apr 26, 2019 5:24:50 GMT -5
Is anyone going to any of the Tribeca showings? If they sell DVDs of the documentary at the showing, I'll bet a large number of us would buy one, with a generous handling charge. I would. RBG (documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg) was also CNN documentary that was released on DVD last August. There would most likely be a release of Linda's on DVD as well!
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Apr 26, 2019 14:33:57 GMT -5
Is anyone going to any of the Tribeca showings? If they sell DVDs of the documentary at the showing, I'll bet a large number of us would buy one, with a generous handling charge. I would. RBG (documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg) was also CNN documentary that was released on DVD last August. There would most likely be a release of Linda's on DVD as well! The RGB is also on the CNN app on Apple TV. I’m hoping the same will happen with the Linda Documentary.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 26, 2019 15:58:04 GMT -5
Seems Pop popped in to say that and did not read the entire thread. I pointed it out as I liked the "Pop popped in" part. Any NJ showings, Rob? Don't think I want to head up to the Village to only find a line down the street or the like. eddiejinnj So far these are the only showings. I'm going on the 26th. Likely to get a much wider release after the festival run, like Aretha's "Amazing Grace" documentary. 8:30 PM - FRI 4/26 STELLA ARTOIS THEATRE @ BMCC. After the Premiere Screening: A special performance from 9 time Grammy® award winner, rock legend Sheryl Crow in celebration of Linda Ronstadt-$30.00 9:30 PM - SAT 4/27 REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-$24.00 8:45 PM - MON 4/29 VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-$24.00 Today is the BIG DAY! Just a few hours away. I am SO happy for Linda that her wonderful life well lived and talent is being recognized and applauded in such an international way. No doubt this will put her back into hearts and on the charts! Break a leg Linda. We are ALL thinking of you on this special weekend.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 26, 2019 18:50:06 GMT -5
I am hoping the one reviewer is right and she sells millions more albums. eddiejinnj
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Post by Richard W on Apr 26, 2019 19:27:26 GMT -5
Who best to play Linda in a movie about her life?
Never thought the answer would be Linda herself.
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Post by erik on Apr 26, 2019 23:55:30 GMT -5
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Post by fabtastique on Apr 27, 2019 0:05:03 GMT -5
(null) Exactly - that is a narrow minded comment but it is one shared by a lot of her fans who dropped her when she switched musical style in the 80s ...
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 27, 2019 0:56:03 GMT -5
The "star" didn't dim, the fair weather fans did. Loyal and new fans made up the difference and her new, diverse catalog created an enduring cultural icon like no other for the ages.
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Post by ausfan2 on Apr 27, 2019 2:05:33 GMT -5
Is there enough music for a soundtrack album?
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Post by Belle on Apr 27, 2019 2:36:10 GMT -5
Indeed... Clearly Variety didn't do their homework. From Linda's Wikipedia Discography, she didn't put out an album in 1979, but her album sales didn't start to wane until the 90's.
1970 - Silk Purse (US Chart: #103) 1972 - Linda Ronstadt (US Chart: #163) 1973 - Don't Cry Now (US: Gold) 1974 - Heart Like a Wheel (US: Platinum x2) 1974 - Different Drum Compilation (US: Chart #92) 1975 - Prisoner in Disguise (US: Platinum) 1976 - Hasten Down the Wind (US: Platinum, UK: Silver) 1976 - Greatest Hits (US: Platinum 7x, CAN: Platinum) 1977 - Simple Dreams (US: Platinum 3x, CAN: Platinum 2x) 1977 - A Retrospective Compilation (US: Gold) 1978 - Living in the USA (US: Platinum 2x, UK: Silver)
1980 - Mad Love (US: Platinum) 1980 - Greatest Hits Vol 2 (US: Platinum) 1980 - 1982 Pirates of Penzance Performances 1982 - Get Closer (US: Gold) 1983 - What's New (US: Platinum 3x, CAN: Platinum) 1984 - Lush Life (US: Platinum) 1984 - La Boheme Performances 1986 - For Sentimental Reasons (US: Platinum) 1986 - Trio (US: Platinum) 1986 - Round Midnight Compilation (US: Gold) 1987 - Canciones de Mi Padre (US: Platinum 2x) 1989 - Cry Like a Rainstorm (US: Platinum 3x, CAN: Platinum, UK: Gold)
1991 - Mas Canciones (US Chart: #88) 1992 - Frenesi (US Chart: #193) 1993 - Winter Light (US Chart: #92) 1995 - Feels Like Home (US Chart: #75) 1996 - Dedicated to the One (US Chart: #78) 1998 - We Ran (US Chart: #160) 1999 - Western Wall (Tucson) (US Chart: #73) 1999 - Trio II (US: Gold)
2000 - A Merry Little Christmas (US Chart: #179) 2002 - The Very Best of LR (AUS: Gold) 2004 - Hummin' to Myself (US Chart: #166, Jazz Chart #3) 2006 - Adieu False Heart (US Chart: #146) 2014 - Duets (US Chart: #32) 2014 - Opus Collection (US Chart: #65) 2016 - Trio Complete Collection (US Chart: #124) 2019 - Live in Hollywood (US Chart: #97)
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Post by Beau Bradlee on Apr 27, 2019 2:48:41 GMT -5
I posted a rebuttal comment on the article.
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Post by Belle on Apr 27, 2019 3:17:56 GMT -5
Me too lol. Go us!
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