Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2013)
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GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A GENERATION is a feature-length documentary about the Greenwich Village music scene and how it sparked everlasting political, social and cultural changes. For the first time, the greatest singer-songwriters, authors and performers from Greenwich Village reflect on how they collectively became the voice of a generation. Through poignant interviews, rare archival footage and new live performances, GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A GENERATION tells a
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Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation behaves altogether too much like the generation that got defined - yep, its starts out energetic and fresh only to age into tedious self-importance.
Top CriticDocumentarian Laura Archibald has rounded up an impressive group of survivors ...
The film's pleasures are the same ones offered by a sprawling, lavishly illustrated magazine spread.
Greenwich Village: The Music That Defined A Generation makes you wish you'd been there too, hearing it all for the first time.
Its blandly generic title is all too disappointingly germane to this loving but far from incisive documentary covering a vital time in music history.
Director Laura Archibald's approach is fatally safe, often turning poets into self-congratulatory windbags.
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