Two views of English rockers in Philadelphia film fest
The twin highlights of the Sight and Soundtrack music-movie series at the Philadelphia Film Festival take divergent documentary approaches to the legacies of first-generation British Invasion rock deities.
The conventional approach comes from LennonNYC, Michael Epstein's tale of John Lennon's final decade, from his early 1970s protests against the Vietnam War to his death on Dec. 8, 1980.
The challenge for Epstein's documentary is to make fresh an overly familiar story. There's the ex-Beatle's fight against deportation, his split with Yoko Ono, and his dark and drunken period hanging with Harry Nilsson (in L.A., not New York), followed by his rebirth as a bread-baking family man, before meeting a tragic end that remains heartbreaking no matter how many times you relive it.
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