'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

2007

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29 Reviews

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An interesting Jazz documentary portrait piece of one of music's 'almost' men.

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Hank Sartin

Time Out

Rated: 4/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Melissa Anderson

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Patrick Peters

Empire Magazine

At times fascinating, but De Felitta's presentation is sometimes a little skewed.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 21, 2008

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Trevor Johnston

Film4

A striking portrait of the price of fame and the transience of the music business spotlight.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 21, 2008

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Tim Evans

Sky Cinema

Pit him against an inexperienced documentary-maker and the result is an often hilarious hotchpotch of cack-handed research and dim-witted interview techniques.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 21, 2008

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Total Film

While Paris' singing features large, not just jazz fans will be moved by this personal, devastating portrait.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 21, 2008

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Audience Member

With all due respect to the filmmaker's love of Jackie Paris, this was a slog and would have been more effective as a short or better yet article in Downbeat magazine rather than a full length documentary. There was little of the spontaneous feeling of jazz here. It failed to make Jackie Paris relevant to modern listeners.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

A great doc about a lost brilliant artist. If you're a fan of Searching for Sugar Man, do yourself a favor and seek this one out.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

This was a pretty interesting doc about an old Jazz musician that never made it big named Jackie Paris. The premise of the movie was trying to discover why he never made it big despite what was largely considered having enough talent to do so. I think the movie never really answers that question, but spends a lot of time tracking down details of his life trying to piece it all together. In the end, you never really know why he didn't make it big, but you get a good profile of who he was, and that made for a pretty interesting movie in its own right.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Mike M

Can't, ultimately, unravel the enigma that was Jackie Paris, and for a work in which music plays such an important part, its original soundtrack is monotonous in the extreme. What it can do is offer an equally intriguing variety of theories, some more plausible than others, several of them tragic. At the press screening, the film broke down around the halfway mark, plunging the room into darkness. Cue a voice from the back rows: "He's jinxed".

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/21/08

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Audience Member

a well put together documentary using archive footage, memoirs from people from his past. I felt that the film, and Jackie, could both have said something about why his career crashed - why did he think it happened - the film gave a few clues but I wanted something a bit more *earth shattering* Still - a good film and I was lucky to see it as part of the London Jazz Festival 2008.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Call Me about this one

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Raymond De Felitta

Director

Jackie Paris

Actor

Anne Marie Moss

Actor

Jeanie Paris

Actor

Harlan Ellison

Actor

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Critical Consensus: The Golden Compass Loses Its Way

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Director: Raymond De Felitta