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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Directed by
Jim Brown
PG
2007
1h 33m
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8.4
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Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.
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Cast of Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pete Seeger
Self
Joan Baez
Self
Johnny Cash
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Bob Dylan
Self
Arlo Guthrie
Self
Mary Travers
Self
Bruce Springsteen
Self
Paul Stookey
Self
Jim Brown
Director / Producer
William Eigen
Producer
Michael Cohl
Producer
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Ratings & Reviews
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Joan Baez calls Pete a "saint," and Jim Brown's documentary makes a strong case for his canonization.
Chicago Reader
Peter Margasak
irector Jim Brown tells the story well even if he refuses to address any of the singer's missteps (such as becoming infuriated when Dylan first plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival).
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A love letter to the singer.
tonymedley.com
Tony Medley
Forget the controversial politics (that's what folk music is all about), this is a fascinating story with great music, despite the tedious last 15 minutes.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A stirring, revelatory film, which captures Seeger as the media-age Johnny Appleseed of folk.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Fans like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan express unvarnished awe, but it's the well-told arc of Seeger's life that makes the strongest impression, as director Jim Brown takes us from the highs to the lows and back up again.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
As the loving documentary, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, makes clear, Pete Seeger is still busy, still angry, still hopeful, still singing.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song could have been called Pete Seeger: The First Punk. As the film traces the singer's long life, it also, inevitably, tracks the evolution of American countercultures through much of the 20th century.
Village Voice
Brian Miller
Shallow, very officially sanctioned, and overly compressed.
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
An amazing man and an amazing film.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
More than an appreciation, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is an inspiration.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The Power of Song shows this icon of 20th-century music to be a man of passion and principle, and a true American. An important figure, an important film.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
[Seeger] traversed decades, styles, even continents to bring the people's music to the people. This distinction is made with suitable and skillful great appreciation by director Jim Brown in Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A full and fond documentary.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
You sense that Seeger may feel his greatest legacy is not what he accomplished, but what his presence gave others the courage to accomplish. Even if it was just singing along with a roomful of strangers.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
If you've never heard of Pete Seeger or if you've known him all your life, see this film. Walking out, you might just be ready to put the world together.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Director Brown has made a career of chronicling the history of American folk music, and Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is a worthy companion piece to his 1982 debut, The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time?
San Francisco Chronicle
Joel Selvin
The filmmakers treat this aged curmudgeon almost too reverently, but it is hard not to be awed by this gentle, resolute soul because of the ideas he steadfastly and faithfully represented.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I don't know if Pete Seeger believes in saints, but I believe he is one. He's the one in the front as they go marching in.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
As certain to get auds singing as the man himself, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is a terrific, multilayered portrait of a singer whose legacy extends beyond music and into every major social action movement since the 1940s.
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