Category Archives: Searching For Sugar Man Film

Daily Maverick – Resurrecting Rodriguez

Searching for Sugar Man, the documentary that tells the story of how 1970s musician Rodriguez came to be a huge star in South Africa while remaining unknown in the rest of the world, looks set to be a smash hit in the US. REBECCA DAVIS met Stephen “Sugar” Segerman, one of a handful of SouthContinueContinue reading “Daily Maverick – Resurrecting Rodriguez”

Search for Sugar is so sweet | Herald.ie

Of course, most of the work done by Steve ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew was in pre-internet days and so may seem strange and frankly unbelievable to a generation who’ve grown up with Google. Even so, the tale is so incredible that I was certainly veering towards agreeing with the South African journalist who atContinueContinue reading “Search for Sugar is so sweet | Herald.ie”

NME Album Reviews – Film Review: ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ – NME.COM

If you’ve ever heard the music of folk dude Sixto Rodriguez, you’ll know the Sugar Man – the spectral drug dealer at the heart of the Mexican-American songwriter’s best-known track of the same name. Via Rodriguez’s sparse acoustic guitar and vocal, the Sugar Man slips his customers horror, salvation and false friends, as well asContinueContinue reading “NME Album Reviews – Film Review: ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ – NME.COM”

Searching for Sugar Man in South Africa | Sony Music

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE AND SOUNDTRACK BRINGS RODRIGUEZ’S INCREDIBLE LIFE STORY AND 1970s MUSIC TO A NEW GENERATION Soundtrack available everywhere starting August 13, 2012, through Columbia/Legacy “The buzzworthy Sundance documentary” – Yahoo! “An acclaimed new documentary goes hunting for the lost Dylan” – Grantland “The tale is better than the tellingContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man in South Africa | Sony Music”

Reissue CDs Weekly: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Rodriguez, Benny Spellman, Rupert’s People | New music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk

Coinciding with the release of the film, here comes the “Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”. What it actually is, rather than a real-life soundtrack, is a compilation drawing tracks from Rodriguez’s two fabulous albums: seven from Cold Fact, four from Coming From Reality (half his released oeuvre), plus the three previously unissued cuts first heard onContinueContinue reading “Reissue CDs Weekly: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Rodriguez, Benny Spellman, Rupert’s People | New music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk”

Sugar Man Coverage – Weekend reviews

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DIFF 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Mahala

An American woman in a modest black cocktail dress has wolfish green eyes that flash with neurotic sincerity as she tells me about struggles over food security in California and sweat lodges and how she now lives in Wilderness in the Cape and misses her family. We’re on the Festival shuttle bus going to seeContinueContinue reading “DIFF 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Mahala”

Sugar Man Coverage – National newspaper reviews

Daily Mail – Review.pdf Daily Telegraph – Review.pdf Financial Times Review.pdf Metro – Review.pdf The Guardian – Review.pdf The Daily Star – Review.pdf The Daily Mirror – Review.pdf The Times – Review.pdf The Sun – Review.pdf Daily Express – Review.pdf The Independent – Review.pdf

Sugar Man :: Bigger than the King, Stones, Beatles & Batman | Profoundly South African

You’ve heard every story there is to tell? How about this one? A Swedish guy makes a documentary in 2012 about a 70s folkster from Detroit who returns from obscurity after discovering that he has a large, devoted audience in South Africa. The film culminates in a cathartic 1998 concert marking the musician’s first significantContinueContinue reading “Sugar Man :: Bigger than the King, Stones, Beatles & Batman | Profoundly South African”

New and Hot Video: Exclusive: ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Preview | Rolling Stone

Director Malik Bendjelloul intended to make a 10-minute segment about Rodriguez, an unlikely Seventies musical icon, for Swedish television. Instead, he spent four years of his life making Searching for Sugar Man, an acclaimed new documentary about the forgotten star whose protest music circulated widely throughout South Africa – eventually inspiring the anti-apartheid protest movementContinueContinue reading “New and Hot Video: Exclusive: ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Preview | Rolling Stone”

Rock Musician Shrouded in Mystery of What Might Have Been – Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | NYTimes.com

There are several entrancing mysteries circulating in “Searching for Sugar Man,” a hugely appealing documentary about fans, faith and an enigmatic Age of Aquarius musician who burned bright and hopeful before disappearing. One mystery involves its title subject, a Detroit singer-songwriter known as Rodriguez who, after being discovered in a dive bar, cut a well-regardedContinueContinue reading “Rock Musician Shrouded in Mystery of What Might Have Been – Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | NYTimes.com”