The Man of a Thousand Songs
2010-12-02 | 90 minutes
Plot Summary
A feature length documentary about extraordinary Canadian singer songwriter, Ron Hynes... an insightful and entertaining exploration of the creative process, the genesis of song, the meaning of performance and the vulnerability of an artist compelled to bare his soul through his music. The film is comprised of Ron performing his music (distinct and live for the camera), interwoven with very intimate black box 'interviews' with Ron (shot tightly and directly addressed to the camera), in which he discusses the songs and the life that informed them: late nights, dark alleys, marriage, children, divorce, his near death and recovery from drug addiction... and punctuated with back stage moments, insight from the street, and Ron's nephew author Joel Thomas Hynes, taking the role of 'chorus of the people'.
Cast
Recommendations
-
Whitney: Can I Be Me
-
Shawn Mendes: In Wonder
-
Cobain: Montage of Heck
-
The Velvet Underground
-
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
-
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
-
Elton John: Never Too Late
-
Amy
-
Belushi
-
20,000 Days on Earth
-
The Greatest Night in Pop
-
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
-
Halftime
-
Sidney
-
Harmontown
-
Seduced and Abandoned
-
Zappa
-
Dig!
-
Lemmy
-
Listen to Me Marlon
Similar Movies
-
The Last Guide
-
Lost Heroes
-
Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
-
The Corporation
-
The Sterilization of Leilani Muir
-
Dief!
-
Nanook of the North
-
My Left Breast
-
Cinematographer
-
Boulay : Le parcours d'un battant
-
Picture of Light
-
La fièvre du castor
-
The Bear Inside a Whale
-
Festival Express
-
Is the Crown at war with us?
-
Arctic Summer
-
Bowling for Columbine
-
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
-
Momentum
-
Coming Home