Articles tagged "biopics"

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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. The Sex Pistols declared that there was “No Future.” The Clash insisted that there was one worth fighting for. The cruelest twist of fate involving the two greatest British punk rock...

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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Rafer Guzman [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. Rock music seems to be producing fewer and fewer icons like Joe Strummer, the lead singer of The Clash who died in 2002. A musician who valued integrity and meaning even while operating inside the...

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Tragic rocker Ian Curtis the subject of two new movies

by Rafer Guzman [Newsday (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. When Ian Curtis hanged himself at his suburban home outside Manchester, England, the 23-year-old singer ended a short career. But he was about to embark on a second life as one of rock’s most...

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Film DVD Review

Gandhi (25th Anniversary Edition) (1982)

by Shaun Huston

[6.Apr.07] :. The filmmakers tend to aestheticize, rather than dramatize, Gandhi's politics, but despite its superficialities, Gandhi remains eminently watchable a quarter of a century after its original release.

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