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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”

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”

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”

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.

Searching for Sugar Man Press Coverage | MovieScope / Sight & Sound / Little White Lies / The Crack

moviescope july feature with malikDownload MovieScope – July, review.pdf Little White Lies – July review.pdf Sight & Sound – August, Malik news piece.pdf Sight & Sound – August, Review.pdf The Crack – Film of the month, July.pdf

Searching for Sugar Man – Sixto Rodriguez at Secret Screenings « shinesquad.com

What do you wear when the invite says ‘Dress Code: Motown… Springbok … 90′s arena … Newport Fold Festival 1975…Noir … Vinyl Junkie… Jo-berg beachwear ‘ It was very confusing – Jo’burg doesn’t have a beach, for a start, but it  turned out very colourful and emotional. For the sea, the audience shed tears.  The launchContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man – Sixto Rodriguez at Secret Screenings « shinesquad.com”

Searching for Sugar Man, Secret Screenings, Troxy, Wednesday 4th July 2012

This is the story of how two music journalists managed to track him down in deepest, poverty-stricken Detroit, even though he was believed to have committed suicide on stage a long time ago. After a life spent in obscurity doing manual labor, he was invited to South Africa where he performed several concerts to thousandsContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man, Secret Screenings, Troxy, Wednesday 4th July 2012”

Summer Docs: Searching for Sugarman | The Sag Harbor Express

When Stockholm-based filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul set off for South Africa in 2006 in search of a few good segments for Swedish television, he wasn’t expecting to find a Cinderella story worthy of a feature length documentary. Yet “Searching for Sugarman” is exactly that. It’s a film about the youthful hopes of an oppressed nation whichContinueContinue reading “Summer Docs: Searching for Sugarman | The Sag Harbor Express”