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Folklife: Phil Ochs Bio-pic at the Northwest Film Forum
So you think '60s folk musicians like Phil Ochs were square? Guess again—'70s punk rock icon Jim Carroll dedicates his hipster Talmud, The Basketball Diaries, to Ochs and Patti Smith.
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune chronicles the life and tragic death of prototypical 60's protest singer Phil Ochs. Part of the Greenwich Village folk scene that birthed Bob Dylan, Ochs was a fiercely political song writer who married stripped down country guitar with complex social commentary.
Jim Carroll hero, Phil Ochs
Kenneth Bowser's film uses interviews with Ochs' family and many musical rivals (Dylan once kicked Ochs out of his limo sneering, "You're not a folksinger. You're a journalist") to show the passion and frustration that whittled Ochs' sharp wit.
It was the 60s, so the film also covers Ochs' drug abuse.
Thurs, Mar 10, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, $9.
For more events, check out the PubliCalendar. And send listing requests to me, [email protected].
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune chronicles the life and tragic death of prototypical 60's protest singer Phil Ochs. Part of the Greenwich Village folk scene that birthed Bob Dylan, Ochs was a fiercely political song writer who married stripped down country guitar with complex social commentary.
Jim Carroll hero, Phil Ochs
Kenneth Bowser's film uses interviews with Ochs' family and many musical rivals (Dylan once kicked Ochs out of his limo sneering, "You're not a folksinger. You're a journalist") to show the passion and frustration that whittled Ochs' sharp wit.
It was the 60s, so the film also covers Ochs' drug abuse.
Thurs, Mar 10, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, $9.
For more events, check out the PubliCalendar. And send listing requests to me, [email protected].
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