Tuesday 12 April 2011

Patti Smith: Dream of Life Discussion


Eleven years in the making, the documentary, which gives nary a biographical detail, is a roving dreamscape--from New York to Tokyo to Rome--of punk's great poet. It's a fitting and appropriately impressionistic celebration of Patti Smith, who has been called "the only major surviving link from the beat era to the '70s Manhattan art scene to the birth of punk to the present." After she moved from underground punk rocker to rock star--all the while maintaining a relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe that is inadequately described as a friendship and artistic collaboration--she left it all behind to raise a family in Michigan; after her husband's death, she has returned to the spotlight, as fierce a punk poet and advocate as ever. Patti Smith and Steven Sebring will participate in a conversation with Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of Sound Opinions, after the screening.

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1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the link - I've yet to see the doc but I have doubt as to how much of the real Patti we'll see. I enjoyed "Just Kids" but I think it avoid the real truth to a certain extent - she's become very good at obscuring the facts!

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