Yearly Archives: 2012

Sugar Man Coverage – Dazed & Confused / The List / BBC Radio Scotland / BBC 6 Music & Stylist

Dazed & Confused – Interview with Malik The List – Interview with Malik / Review (also mentioned in weekly highlights section) Stylist – Positive mention in a Lauren Laverne interview BBC 6 Music, Lauren Laverne BBC Radio Scotland, Movie Café – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ks1z3 Dazed & Confused – Searching for Sugar Man, Malik.pdf The List – Review.pdfContinueContinue reading “Sugar Man Coverage – Dazed & Confused / The List / BBC Radio Scotland / BBC 6 Music & Stylist”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez – NYTimes.com

It’s a real-life tale of talent disregarded, bad luck and missed opportunities, with an improbable stop in the Hamptons and a Hollywood conclusion: A singer-songwriter is signed to a contract in the late 1960s after producers with ties to Motown Records see him playing in a smoky Detroit nightclub called the Sewer. He makes aContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez – NYTimes.com”

Column – Rodriguez, Can, Beatles, Sex Pistols… Rock’n’roll’s lost treasures rediscovered – News – QTheMusic.com

Taking rock’n’roll archaeology into the personal realm, in new film Searching For Sugar Man (out 27 July) Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul has unearthed not just the story of singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez and his “disappearance” after his two album’s flopped at the start of the 1970s, but his unknown legacy in South Africa where he becameContinueContinue reading “Column – Rodriguez, Can, Beatles, Sex Pistols… Rock’n’roll’s lost treasures rediscovered – News – QTheMusic.com”

Exclusive: Searching For Sugar Man Clip | Movie News | Empire

Every year there seems to bring at least one music documentary that gets tagged “the new Buena Vista Social Club”. But to borrow from The Three Amigos!, this year’s Buena Vista Social Club could be the real Buena Vista Social Club. Sorta. The film is Searching For Sugar Man and we’ve got a new internet-freshContinueContinue reading “Exclusive: Searching For Sugar Man Clip | Movie News | Empire”

Director Malik Bendjelloul discusses Searching for Sugar Man | The List

‘It was like a blessed film,’ says Malik Bendjelloul. ‘Every rock you looked under, there was a little gold coin.’ There isn’t a better way to describe Bendjelloul’s debut Searching For Sugar Man, a documentary that boasts what the director calls ‘probably the best story I’ve ever heard in my life – and probably everContinueContinue reading “Director Malik Bendjelloul discusses Searching for Sugar Man | The List”

Recent Posts on the Sugarman.org Message Board

Entry #: 899 Entry Date: 2012-07-15 16:28:38 Name: mark taliana Visitor Comments: I have just retruned from seing and hearing, ‘Searching for Sugerman’ the documentry and at the age of 47 I thought I had seen and heard all that western popular music/culture has to offer.  I was wrong.  Put Dylan, Lennon and Cat StevensContinueContinue reading “Recent Posts on the Sugarman.org Message Board”

Searching for Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) will be released on July 24, 2012 | Sony Legacy

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of music. In the late ’60s, two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as oneContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) will be released on July 24, 2012 | Sony Legacy”

Searching for Sugar Man | KING5.com Seattle

A fascinating new documentary chronicles the search for a mysterious folk musician who unknowingly became a rock legend half a world away. Searching for Sugar Man tells the story of an American singer-songwriter in the early-70s named Rodriguez, who was considered a talented recording artist but somehow disappeared into oblivion. At the same time, aContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man | KING5.com Seattle”

Summer Docs with Alec Baldwin | Hamptons International Film Festival

“Sometimes, unpredictable things occur in documentary film, occasionally, unbelievable things. SUGAR MAN is a film that introduces you to people you will never forget,” says HIFF Board Member and SummerDocs Host Alec Baldwin. via Summer Docs with Alec Baldwin | Hamptons International Film Festival.