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Best Album Reissues of 2012: Rodriguez, ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | Rolling Stone
The reissue of the year is the soundtrack to one of the most compelling music documentaries ever made, about a comeback so improbable it seems like fiction. Searching for Sugar Man follows two South African fans as they solve the mystery of the Hispanic, Detroit-born singer-songwriter Rodriguez: a charismatic phantom who vanished into working-life obscurityContinueContinue reading “Best Album Reissues of 2012: Rodriguez, ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | Rolling Stone”
2012 International Documentary Association IDA Awards Winners | Indie Film Spotlight
The 28th Annual IDA Documentary Awards were handed out tonight at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Penn Jillette, the speaking half of Penn and Teller, hosted the ceremony. The big winner was Searching for Sugar Man, taking home the Best Feature Award. It was especially gratifying for me as I attended theContinueContinue reading “2012 International Documentary Association IDA Awards Winners | Indie Film Spotlight”
The Skinny – Searching for Sugar Man – December 2012
Jamming With Sugar Man | You Magazine
NME – Feature – Dec 5th 2012
Charles Bradley – “I’ll Slip Away” (Rodriguez cover) – YouTube
Celebrating Light In The Attic’s 10 year anniversary in 2012, we are releasing a series of very special colored vinyl 7″s and digital downloads. The series features contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The Attic on the A-side, plus the original version on the B-side. Charles Bradley — known as “The ScreamingContinueContinue reading “Charles Bradley – “I’ll Slip Away” (Rodriguez cover) – YouTube”
Searching For Sugar Man included in Oscar Documentary Top 15 List | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 15 films in the ever-controversial Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards. A whopping 126 pictures had originally qualified in the category. This list often stirs up considerable controversy, and there are definitely a few major omissionsContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man included in Oscar Documentary Top 15 List | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire”
Searching For Sugar Man – The 10 Best DVDs of 2012 | Q Magazine
Searching for Sugar Man DVD coverage – Mojo / Shindig / New Internationalist
Shindig – Review.pdf Shindig – Rodriguez hero of the year mention.pdf
‘Sugar Man’ becomes SA’s most successful doccie of all time – Times LIVE
The hit documentary about musician Rodriguez, which sold out in theatres across the country has become the most successful documentary of all time in South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man has made over R2 million at the box office and is currently still screening exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor Theatres – and shows continueContinueContinue reading “‘Sugar Man’ becomes SA’s most successful doccie of all time – Times LIVE”
Rodriguez gets honourary inclusion in new book: 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans | Jacana
50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, and is once again an irreverent and entertaining popular history of modern South Africa – but with a more positive spin this time around. What does it take to be a flippen brilliant South African?ContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez gets honourary inclusion in new book: 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans | Jacana”
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes top award at documentary festival – MSN Movies News
“Searching for Sugar Man” is continuing to find critical acclaim. Malik Benjelloul’s documentary about musician Rodriguez, who abandoned music only to find his career resuscitated after becoming hugely popular in South Africa, won the Best Music Documentary award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the festival said Friday. “Sugar Man” also took home theContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes top award at documentary festival – MSN Movies News”
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Wins Doha Tribeca Festival Audience Awards – The Hollywood Reporter
Chinese feature film Full Circle, the story of a group of irrepressible senior citizens who decide to enter a reality show on television and Searching for Sugar Man, a documentary on the life of Rodriguez, the 1970s U.S. rock icon who never was, won the Audience awards as the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) drewContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Wins Doha Tribeca Festival Audience Awards – The Hollywood Reporter”
Rodriguez to play Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January 2013
Rodriguez, aka Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Rod Riguez, and Jesus Rodriguez, released a pair of albums, “Cold Fact” and “Coming from Reality,” in 1970 and 1971. His music was influenced by Bob Dylan’s, but it had the hard edge of his native Detroit and was often political in nature. It went nowhere in America, and RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez to play Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January 2013”
Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine
If you don’t know the story of Rodriguez yet, then don’t read this – go and watch this year’s amazing documentary Searching for Sugar Man, then come back to us. For those who know the tale behind the man, you may still be in a sense of awe that he is here: one halfContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine”
Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012
I first heard about the singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez when a film charting his life, Searching For Sugar Man, was in the news earlier this year. The BBC called him “the musician who never knew he was famous,” and I was fascinated by his story. Rodriguez released a couple of albums in the States inContinueContinue reading “Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012”
Rotter and Friends – Wisdom » Rodriguez Official Shirts Come To Reality
I am so proud to release the first official illustrated tee shirts of Rodriguez and honored to have been asked to scribble the magic, approved by the man himself. Special thanks to Light In The Attic, David Black (photographer of wonder), Stella Berkofsky, and Rodriguez’s family, for helping make this project happen. Rodriguez’s music isContinueContinue reading “Rotter and Friends – Wisdom » Rodriguez Official Shirts Come To Reality”
Searching For Sugar Man at Doha Tribeca Film Festival this week | Doha Film Institute
39 Films from 30 Countries including 29 MENA Premieres to Be Showcased in DTFF’s Contemporary World Cinema and Special Screenings Programme — Press | Doha Film Institute Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), the annual cultural event of the Doha Film Institute (DFI), will showcase 21 films in the Contemporary World Cinema section and 12 SpecialContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man at Doha Tribeca Film Festival this week | Doha Film Institute”
Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall
“SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN – AN EVENING WITH RODRIGUEZ” with special guest DAVID HOLMES It’s one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a shadowy figure known as RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall”
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