Premiere Date: December 30, 2009
Synopsis
Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist. Following Smith's personal reflections over a decade, the film explores her many art forms and the friends and poets who inspired her — William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Robert Mapplethorpe and Michael Stipe. She emerges as a crucial, contemporary link between the Beats, punks and today's music. Shot in lush, dark tones, featuring rare performance clips and narrated by the artist herself, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is an impressionistic journal of a multi-faceted artist that underscores her unique place in American culture. Winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary. A production of Clean Socks and THIRTEEN. Produced by Steven Sebring, Margaret Smilow and Scott Vogel.
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Filmmaker
Steven Sebring
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Critical Acclaim
An act of rapturous devotion...joyous, elegiac, warm and vibrantly present.”
&mdash New York Times
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Wednesday, December 30
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Average Review
| based on 3 reviews
Awakenings Radio Host/Producer
so looking forward to seeing this. :-)
just saw Patti Smith @ Santa Monica Pier...
She is a Muse that Rocks... a heroine...
by michele from Marina Del Rey, CA
September 4, 2009, 6:18 PM
quality
Patti Smith is a woman for all seasons. We need her, we desparately need her, as a nation, and as a world!
by Amanda Wonders from Rancho Santa Margarita, ca
September 13, 2009, 6:03 PM
I absolutely LOVE this film. Saw it twice when it screened at Sundance.
by Jill Orschel from Park City, UT
October 30, 2009, 11:05 AM