Be Here to Love Me
Original title: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
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7.8/10
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Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.
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- TriviaIn a 2005 interview with Under the Radar, Margaret Brown explained her approach to telling the story of Townes van Zandt: "I think a lot of my producers were worried that the film would be really elliptical and not a normal kind of music doc and it wouldn't be received well. One of my producers, at Toronto when it opened, he gave me this whole speech beforehand about how I had to explain the film to the audience or they weren't gonna be able to follow it. It seems like everyone kind of goes with it and they feel like they're falling into it and they like it. But maybe people didn't tell me because they know I'm the filmmaker and I might be fragile. I have no idea. I wanted the film to feel like a tapestry. Like the way you meet somebody, you don't hear about their birth and end with their death... I wanted the film to feel like if you went on 10 dates with Townes and you were gradually revealed certain things. Sometimes it may be in order chronologically, but other times, the way things build on each other is not chronological. People don't think that way. Why should films be structured that way?"
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Townes van Zandt: Breaking even is ending up in Purgatory as far as I can tell. I figure there's heaven, purgatory, hell and the blues. I'm trying to crawl up from the blues, purgatory for me would be... Home Sweet Home!
- ConnectionsFeatures Heartworn Highways (1976)
- SoundtracksRake
Written by Townes van Zandt
Performed by Townes van Zandt
Courtesy of Tomato Records
Copywright: BUG
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I was lucky enough to view this film at the Toronto Film Festival. As a longtime, and pretty rabid Townes Van Zandt fan, I was very impressed with the film. Director Margaret Brown did a fantastic job. Her film showed the tragedy, humor and beauty that made up Townes. I had a chance to talk to her briefly after the screening, and you could tell that this was really a labor of love. The interviews in this seem like a who's who of singer/songwriter music, featuring Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Guy Clark and many more. Hopefully it will find some sort of distribution on DVD. It is the type of film that deserves to be seen. Anyone who considers themselves a music fan should take any opportunity they have to see this film.
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- Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
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- Gross US & Canada
- $129,988
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,098
- Dec 4, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $129,988
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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