“Searching for Sugar Man”.

[.invitado.]

bonita historia y bonita película

[Mifune]

Esta semana está en la Filmoteca de Santander.

[mary7]

A mi me encanta el documental y la música de Rodriguez
pero tengo mis dudas sobre si es un Fake
no se...
al margen de todo
el documental esta muy bien

[mary7]

Esta semana esta en la Filmoteca ,pero además en versión original
yo iré el viernes a las 20h. a verla, me apetece en pantalla grade
creo que merece la pena

[Phunk Phenomena]

[Phunk Phenomena]

Triunfar es de mediocres. ¡Grande Sixto!

[patrullero]

jejeje, aqui ponen a caldo el documental diciendo que es uno de los 6 falsos documentales nunca rodados

The Fallacy:

The documentary tells us that Rodriguez is a guy who put out two extremely obscure albums in the '70s, had zero success, quit music, and became a regular Joe. That makes for a great story -- the idea that the guy threw the albums out there and dropped off the map, unaware that his work had become huge on the other side of the globe years later. Well, we don't know about you, but we haven't met any regular Joes who spent years touring Australia with bands like Men at Work and Midnight Oil.

Yep, Rodriguez was a huge sensation in Australia in the late '70s and early '80s, with his singles shooting up the charts for over a year. One of the fans from the documentary is a record shop owner and a massive Rodriguez nut -- surely he'd heard of his 1981 live in Australia album? Maybe he listened to it and figured the huge crowd cheering for the guy at the beginning was in some tiny Detroit cafe. Also, the name of the album is Rodriguez Alive, so maybe he should have taken it as a clue.

It's true that Rodriguez's work didn't catch on the U.S. before the film, and that he wasn't aware of his popularity in South Africa, but to paint him as a criminally ignored genius is absurd. He enjoyed a sterling career lasting over a decade before his 15 minutes were up and he was forced back into the real world, making his story about as remarkable as any '80s hair metal band (that is, if Blackie Lawless inexplicably became the poster boy for the Egyptian revolution, which -- can we make that happen?). That might explain why he seemed so underwhelmed when he met up with the filmmakers.



Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-f...z2e30LohEK

A mi me da un poco igual

[Mifune]

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-f...z2e30LohEK

[Offtopicazo total] No voy a entrar a valorar lo que cuenta ahí sobre el documental de Rodríguez, pero sí podría decir bastantes cosas en contra de lo que ahí llaman falacias de Nanuk el esquimal... así que tampoco le doy demasiada credibilidad a ese post[/offtopic]

[patrullero]

Yo por polemizar, que si no esto parece una reunion veganqueer, todos chupandonosla entre nosotros

[Mifune]

Entre nosotras.

[patrullero]

M., tienes razon, en un ambiente mixto, nosotras

[.invitado.]

jejeje yo he hablado de película, no de documental