{"id":16633,"date":"2024-07-21T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16633"},"modified":"2024-07-15T14:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:34:34","slug":"jerry-lee-lewis-trouble-in-mind-2022-ethan-coen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16633","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (2022, Ethan Coen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This predates <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16374\">Drive-Away Dykes<\/a><\/em> but was withheld for a couple years until Jerry was safely dead, then slipped onto streaming to mostly poor reviews.  As a doc it&#8217;s little better than a slickly-edited youtube mix of TV appearances.  Some 80% of the runtime is music, and almost all the interviews are with Jerry himself, who&#8217;s particularly unenlightening about his own life and career, and absolutely full of himself.  So, pretty poor by cinematic standards, but really excellent as a rock-doc (wall-to-wall music, mostly live versions, duets with Mickey Gilley, Tom Jones, Little Richard, and no celebrity talking heads).  As a follow-up I spent July 4th the ideal way (reconstructing original Jerry Lee Lewis album tracklists by studying Bear Family CD box set liner notes).<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/114671-cannes-2022-reviews-de-humani-corporis-fabrica-crimes-of-the-future-jerry-lee-lewis-trouble-in-mind-les-amandiers\/\">Filmmaker<\/a>, Vadim Rizov calls it &#8220;as unambitiously amiable a timekiller as you might expect from Live Nation Productions&#8221; and says the doc &#8220;proceeds, in no particular thematic or chronological order I can discern, through the life and career of Lewis, as important a musician as he is appalling a human.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This predates Drive-Away Dykes but was withheld for a couple years until Jerry was safely dead, then slipped onto streaming to mostly poor reviews. As a doc it&#8217;s little better than a slickly-edited youtube mix of TV appearances. Some 80% of the runtime is music, and almost all the interviews are with Jerry himself, who&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,47,3213,2073,3283],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-coens","tag-little-richard","tag-rock-doc","tag-tom-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16676,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions\/16676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}