Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge Part I

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Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge Part I

Q&A filmmakers Alex Gibney and Blair Foster with JBFC Programmer Karen Sloe Goodman

Q&A filmmakers Alex Gibney and Blair Foster with JBFC Programmer Karen Sloe Goodman

Directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and Emmy winner Blair Foster (George Harrison: Living in the Material World), this two-part film chronicles the last 50 years of American music, politics, and popular culture through the perspective of Rolling Stone. The iconic magazine always understood that rock ‘n’ roll was more than music—it was a cultural force that helped shape America and defined generations. An exhilarating visual and musical experience narrated by Jeff Daniels, the film features performances by Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and Ice-T as it showcases the superb, groundbreaking work of the magazine’s many influential writers.

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Q&A filmmakers Alex Gibney and Blair Foster with JBFC programmer Karen Sloe Goodman
Q&A filmmakers Alex Gibney and Blair Foster with JBFC programmer Karen Sloe Goodman
Wednesday, Jul. 11 2018, 7:00
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Alex Gibney’s signature cinematic style lends itself to his penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries which have been the recipient of the Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, the Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award, and The Writers Guild Awards. Gibney’s recent films include: the triple Emmy and DuPont-Columbia Award-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2015, and Sinatra: All or Nothing At All, a two-part special on the life, music and career of legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra.

Blair Foster is a filmmaker who won two Emmys for her work on the Academy Award winning film, Taxi to the Dark Side as well as an Emmy for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In 2017 she directed and produced, along with Alex Gibney, Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge for HBO. She also produced the Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Foster produced the Emmy nominated Sinatra: All or Nothing at All and the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown both directed by Alex Gibney.

This film is part of the Sounds of Summer 2018: Music Films, Old and New series.



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