From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s. In this biographical documentary, veteran director Kenneth Bowser shows how Phil's music and his fascinating life story and eventual decline into depression and suicide were intertwined with the history-making events that defined a generation. Even as his contemporaries moved into folk-rock and pop musi... (Full plot summary below)
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From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s. In this biographical documentary, veteran director Kenneth Bowser shows how Phil's music and his fascinating life story and eventual decline into depression and suicide were intertwined with the history-making events that defined a generation. Even as his contemporaries moved into folk-rock and pop music, Phil followed his own vision, challenging himself and his listeners. Not one to pull punches, Ochs never achieved the commercial success he desperately desired. But his music remains relevant, reaching new audiences in a generation that finds his themes all too familiar.
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| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsA fond tribute to a troubled, traveling troubadour! |
| About.comJennifer MerinThis brilliantly composed docu about Phil Ochs not only captures the power of the singer/songwriter's personality, it reveals the period's social and poltical strife by following events in his career and reflected in his lyrics. |
| culturevulture.netEmily S. Mendel... a "must see" for those who lived through the turbulent 1960s, and those who today question our country's continuing engagement in foreign wars. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAt once an unsentimental portrait of the ambitious singer who thought himself bound for glory, and an affecting elegy for a time when song was a form of revolution. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranBeautiful and melodic as well as pointedly political. |
| Jam! MoviesJane StevensonFirst-time filmmakers Wes Orshoski and Greg Olliver trained their cameras on Lemmy for three years and the results paid off. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyA compassionate but not uncritical portrait of an artist whose creativity and vulnerability were inseparable from the political distemper of his era. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunMore than just a biopic of the famed troubadour, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune is also a brief, brisk, brilliant history of social turmoil in America in the '60s. |
| NY1-TVNeil RosenThis film, which shows Ochs' life -- flaws and all -- offers up a history lesson to those who are not that familiar with his musical work and societal contributions, and for Phil Ochs it provides some overdue recognition. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMany of the interviews in the film – conducted with everyone from family members to Christopher Hitchens and Tom Hayden – look to be 10, even 20, years old. Together they concoct a complex portrait of an ultimately unknowable man. |
