Category Archives: Reviews & Interviews

When a documentary begins by telling you that its subject committed suicide on stage four decades earlier, you don’t expect to be treated to a recently conducted interview with the supposedly deceased. Or maybe we should see that coming. Much credit to director Malik Bendjelloul for surprising this cynical and desensitised film watcher. Searching forContinueContinue reading “Quickflix – Searching for Sugar Man review by Simon Miraudo”

Dave Matthews Band leader Dave Matthews and San Diego financial consultant Hillel Katzeff have never met. But the two former South Africans share a unique bond in their love of the music of Rodriguez, the lone-named Detroit singer-songwriter who makes his long-overdue concert debut here Wednesday night at the Casbah. Never mind that, until thisContinueContinue reading “Truth stranger than fiction for Rodriguez | UTSanDiego.com”

“Searching for Sugar Man” is a stunning documentary about an unsuccessful Detroit singer- songwriter named Sixto Rodriguez, who released two long- forgotten albums in the early 1970s. Almost no one bought his albums, and his label dropped him. Rodriguez stopped making records and worked as a demolition man. What Rodriguez didn’t know, while working inContinueContinue reading “How Social Dynamics Made You Successful | Bloomberg”

The differences wrought in Sixto Rodriguez’s life came into crystal-clear focus with the admission of just one detail. Talking by phone last week, the 70-year-old let it slip, with little pretense, that there was a “60 Minutes” crew in his Detroit hometown, ready to film him the next day for a segment slated to runContinueContinue reading “‘Sugar Man’ Rodriguez reflects on hard-won success | The Columbia Daily Tribune – Columbia, Missouri”

CHICAGO – The documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” tells the story of a Mexican-American musician who in the 1970s recorded two albums that did not have much success in the United States, but which made their way to South Africa, where the songs inspired whites opposed to apartheid. The documentary by Swedish director Malik BendjelloulContinueContinue reading “Latin American Herald Tribune – Hispanic Musician Lived in Obscurity without Knowing He Was Star Abroad”