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Down from the Mountain (2001)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:30
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: The musicians behind the Soggy Bottom Boys, which is the name of the fictional bluegrass band in the Coen brothers's movie O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, are featured in this documentary, which... [More]
Starring: T Bone Burnett, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Hartford
Director: Nicholas Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
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Reviews for Down from the Mountain
Now if you're looking for an in-depth study of the music, look elsewhere. This movie is strictly about the one event [a benefit concert (for the Country Music Hall of Fame 2001)].
12/08/02
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12/06/05
If you have any affection at all for traditional American music, the movie itself ... is pretty close to heaven.
09/07/01
Top CriticA Polaroid sprung to life.
10/25/01
Like the old-timey music that inspired it, Down From the Mountain is sweet, serene and utterly unconcerned with polish.
10/12/01
Top CriticIn her performances and asides to the documentarians, it is Welch who best articulates why this music is so moving.
11/08/01
Top CriticThere are plenty of musical highlights here.
10/04/01
Roots-music lovers will find plenty here to applaud.
09/07/01
Valuable if only for its recording of a group of great and sadly unappreciated American musicians who have toiled far too long in relative obscurity.
09/07/01
Top CriticIf this picture doesn't set your toe tapping and your spirit soaring, you'd better check your pulse.
08/30/01
It's impossible to deny the unalloyed joy that the film gives the spectator.
10/21/01
It's poor filmmaking, but wonderful music.
10/22/01
Has the ease of a casual get-together by musicians who enjoy jamming with each other and who give us the privilege to sit there and listen and watch.
10/27/01
A beautifully done record of a very unusual event – and one that inadvertently serves as a testament to John Hartford, making it a very special document of musical history.
02/18/04
'This is stupendous,' participant Welch says of the concert. Spectators will feel the same way.
09/07/01
Top CriticA film that's lovely to hear, though not much to look at.
05/31/02
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03/10/03
The whole experience is wonderful -- and this is a film to own on videotape, since you'll probably want to play these songs again and again.
09/20/01
Top CriticA tender tribute to Hartford's spirit, and to the enduring value of the plaintive and celebratory music that emerged from this country's farm fields and front porches and backwoods churches.
09/21/01
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