Melody Makers

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Melody Makers

2019

1h 37m

Documentary

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Photographer Barrie Wentzel and others discuss the rise and fall of Melody Maker magazine -- the world's first weekly music publication.

Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

12/01/2019

At times the film feels like outtakes from another, more cohesive documentary about Melody Maker's legacy.

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

11/28/2019

[A] hardly epochal but largely pleasant documentary...

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

11/27/2019

Melody Makers will make music lovers desperately wish for a time machine to return to those halcyon days.

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Hunter Lanier

Film Threat

12/17/2019

8/10

The film of almost the same name, Melody Makers, directed by Leslie Ann Coles, gives the writers and photographers of the magazine's golden era a chance to tell the stories behind the stories.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

11/29/2019

While it's technically dry and straightforward, the film finds an agreeably nostalgic rhythm.

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Adrian Mack

Georgia Straight

07/30/2019

Although a tad threadbare in the talking-head department (here comes Eric Burdon, again), this cheerful history of the British music weekly Melody Maker has enough inside dope to maintain interest.

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Photographer Barrie Wentzel and others discuss the rise and fall of Melody Maker magazine -- the world's first weekly music publication.

Director: Leslie Ann Coles
Producer: Leslie Ann Coles, Mark Sanders
Screenwriter: Leslie Ann Coles
Distributor: Cleopatra Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 29, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 16, 2019
Runtime: 1h 37m