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Summary: Great Stuff for the Men Hater's Club
Review: Hearing that this movie was the winner of an award at the Sundance Film Festival my wife and I greatly anticipated watching this film. The scenery is beautiful. The music is wonderful. However, the overtones in this movie are horrendous, unless you are a feminist who hates men. If you are, then you will love this movie.
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Summary: Capturing Culture
Review: I for one thought that Songcather was a wonder chance to hear the music and gather some perspective on North Carolina culture at the turn of the century. I am sorry that this movie was not better promoted. As for some who found some the content objectionable, I would suggest people remember to look at the label for the rating on movies and read the jacket. This is PG-13. If one is afraid of people with different world views than his or her own, then by all means, do not rent this and instead stick with some of the Disney classics that I love which depict a pleasent and simple view of things. However, if you want to see real people with all their beauty and flaws then this movie allows for a thought provoking storyline --though the real beauty of the movie is the music.
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Summary: Not A Feel-Good Movie
Review: SONGCATCHER is not a feel-good movie but it will stick in your memory for a long time. In spite of the sombre tone, the film is satisfactorily resolved at the end. I am glad I saw the movie and I recommend it. The acting and directing are superb. Pat Carroll as old Viney Butler stands out in particular.
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Summary: A Pleasant Journey Into the Past
Review: With all of the completely unwatchable movies at the theater these days I am surprised at the harsh criticism Songcather has generated. Not every film has to compete for Film of the Year or make millions of dollars to be valuable.
Having spent a portion of my childhood in North Carolina I found the characters quite believable and some very familiar. If Songcatcher contains a few stereotypes it should be remembered that such notions are usually based on some reality.
Songcatcher is a pleasant diversion from the action films that do little besides blow up buildings or kill large groups of people. I for one enjoyed Songcather and would like to see more of this type of film.
If the songs in the movie are unpolished it should be remembered that folk songs have been passed on by ordinary people for centuries, many who cannot sing that well.
I would recommend seeing the film and ignoring the negative comments.
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Summary: Songcatcher Caught Me
Review: Songcatcher is one of the best films I have seen for several years. While some of its content is not for children or for homophobics there are really no objectionable parts in my eye.The cast, without exception, really pulls it off and the music is what really kept my attention.
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Summary: A Fantastic Movie
Review: I loved the music of this movie , the movie seems to wind off on 20th century Feminist Ideology here and there and Nicley doesn't jump into the stereotypes common with "hillbillies" thers's no Incest or Rape or Drunken fathers beaten there children, it does have other things like , Cheating Husbands,Lesbians, and the end is paced badly , but there is one thing that makes you forget about all of the faults, its the music and it's wonderfull,
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Summary: Deceptive...
Review: The cover makes you think that you're getting a family-friendly, "Hallmark Hall of Fame"-type movie. In reality, however, you get a movie that accepts and condones adultery, homosexuality, and anti-Christian stereotyping. The main character is an adulteress, her sister engages in lesbianism (including some brief nudity and sexual kissing), and the "Bible-believers" rail not only against homosexuality, but also singing and "book-learning". The music of the "mountain people" is a sidebar in this relativistic, 21st-century, "do what feels good" independent movie. I wish I'd never seen it.
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Summary: a gem
Review: "The Songcatcher" is a movie gem, featuring wonderful acting performances, a gorgeous on-site location, and an intriguing story. My husband and I laughed out loud in delight at one of the later scenes, suggesting one view of the origins of the mega-giant country music recording industry.
The movie tells of a woman's love for the old-mode Appalachian songs, unchanged since their origins in Elizabethan England. She studies how the songs are woven into the very lives of the mountain people who sing them.
Another love develops as she comes to know one of the men, so unlike her married professor-lover she has left behind in academia. The happy ending shows them riding off together, and you will come out of the movie smiling.
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Summary: Best Of The Recent Best
Review: THis is one of the best Independant filsm I have seen in along time - since Like Water For Chocolate. The American South has alot of history and most of it was told through song. A really heart-felt and touching movie. Even the children and Lesbian themes prove themselves powerful in the 30's. When I saw this in the theatre I was amazed at how intertwined the music and the story was. In fact the songs tell part of the story as it moves through the film. The acting by everyone was phenomenal. Visually accurate costumes and dynamic performances that make you think they are REAL people. Again, this is one of those DVD's I wish they had more features and commentary. But just as a stand=alone film - this is a great one. It'll make you happy and sad and humming the old South as you leave the credits.
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Summary: Music to your ears.
Review: Set in 1907 a struggling musicologist fights against male dominated academia but ultimately finds gold in the the Appalachian mountains when she visits her sister and gets caught up in the spell binding whirlwind of mountain music. Iris Dement has a short cameo as well as Taj Mahal which affords the discerning listener earthy cries and a true-bluesy guitar not lost in electronic jungle of equalizers and amplifiers. The music will dwell in your chest for long after you hear it and for some it will be a sweet reminder of a distant home. This movie won a Sundance award for ensemble cast but unfortunately due to one of the side elements of the story it did not come to the greatness that O Brother, Where Art Thou? did. The best moment was found in the duality that life always reeks of: The pseudoprude Penleric informs her younger sister that her less-than-perfect ways are a detriment to the new found school--to say nothing of the Penleric's rompus room cover up she left back at the university amidst all those impressionable young minds. Oh, death . . .
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