Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
Margaret Brown
USA | 2004 | 99mins | Beta | Colour and Black & White
The ultimate songwriter’s songwriter, Townes Van Zandt had a profound impact on generations of musicians from Bob Dylan to Sonic Youth, yet he avoided the commercial success enjoyed by many of his own fans.
This documentary provides an intimate portrait of the legendary artist’s haunting music and life. Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett all acknowledge how Van Zandt’s songs made them rethink their own writing while Steve Earle declared Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world.
Director Margaret Brown focuses on the decision to live his life for the art – to blow everything off… get a guitar and go! Her haunting and lyrical film combines interviews with friends and family, rare performance and interview footage with intimate portraits shot in Van Zandt’s own home throughout the years.
Beautifully laid out … tender but unsparing, heartfelt and unapologetic — San Francisco Chronicle
Will be screened with First Lesson In Peace |
