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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (2011)

From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s. In this biographical documentary, veteran director Kenneth Bowser shows how Phil's music and his fascinating life story and eventual decline into depression and suicide were intertwined with the history-making events that defined a generation. Even as his contemporaries moved into folk-rock and pop music, Phil followed his own vision, challenging himself and his listeners. Not one to pull punches, Ochs never achieved the commercial success he desperately desired. But his music remains relevant, reaching new audiences in a generation that finds his themes all too familiar.

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Liam Lacey 18 Feb 2011

A compassionate but not uncritical portrait of an artist whose creativity and vulnerability were inseparable from the political distemper of his era.

Joseph Jon Lanthier 10 Jan 2011

The "reading" of Ochs's inner pain through the uncomfortable transitions his era underwent would likely satisfy a man who released a record entitled All the News That's Fit to Sing.

Jeanette R 21 Dec 2011

The story of a man that needed to find a purpose to live and in the process put an era into great focus. Phil Ochs, a great folk musician in his own right, in the end succumbed to his manic depression and suffered the disparities of wanting to be popular and making an actual difference.

Melissa Anderson 04 Jan 2011

Though hewing to a too-conventional structure, Bowser's film is densely researched enough to yield insights not just into its overlooked subject, but also into his overly analyzed era.

Jane Stevenson 18 Feb 2011

First-time filmmakers Wes Orshoski and Greg Olliver trained their cameras on Lemmy for three years and the results paid off.