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Once Were Brothers
Directed by
Daniel Roher
R
2019
1h 40m
Biography
,
History
,
and more
7.4
84%
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A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
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Cast of Once Were Brothers
Robbie Robertson
Self
Martin Scorsese
Self
Bruce Springsteen
Self
Eric Clapton
Self
Peter Gabriel
Self
Van Morrison
Self
Ronnie Hawkins
Self
Taj Mahal
Self
Jann Wenner
Self
David Geffen
Self
Larry Campbell
Self
Rick Danko
Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
Levon Helm
Self (archive footage)
Garth Hudson
Self (archive footage)
Richard Manuel
Self (archive footage)
Bill Graham
Self (archive footage)
Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Roher
Director / Writer
Stephen Paniccia
Producer
Andrew Munger
Producer
Sam Sutherland
Producer
Lana Belle Mauro
Producer
Once Were Brothers Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Robert Levin
The better way to come close to an understanding of who The Band was is to re-watch The Last Waltz instead.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
It's the stories about recording The Band's first few albums that are the most interesting, especially when you consider that Robertson was Canadian but he still managed to capture the spirit of American roots rock.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
In most ways, the film is a conventional rock doc, a nostalgic and valorizing chronicle of a group's rise and fall. The Band is one group that deserves the deep dive.
Eugene Weekly (OR)
Rick Levin
Mostly, the documentary conveys the way The Band, a product of the '60s, stood both inside and outside the culture of the time.
Arizona Republic
Ed Masley
Robertson is chasing something different here - a fond remembrance of the complicated friendships lost along the way that celebrates the good times through the music they created while they could.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Even at its most painful, the Band's story captures something golden, incendiary and wistfully beautiful - "so beautiful," Robertson reflects, "that it went up in flames."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jon Bream
Music fans will appreciate this cinematic ode to the greatness of the Band, if not its lack of fairness.
San Francisco Chronicle
Joel Selvin
Robertson has a gift for romanticizing his own hero's journey, even if in the end, the film comes off as elaborate self-justification.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
This is really one man's look back in anger, joy and sentimentality. "Robbie Robertson on the Band" would be a more accurate description.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
I was never a big fan of The Band and this film did not necessarily make me one, but I appreciated learning more about the mythology.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
In some ways you want to be grateful that Robertson told his side of the story, through nostalgia, archival footage, photographs, interviews and concert performances.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
But it is a measure of the singularity of the Band's story, and the way their music remains such a tonic to experience, that "Brothers" still demands to be seen.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
There is a pronounced sense of Robertson taking back a story he clearly feels has been hijacked.
Slate
Jack Hamilton
With its tone of score-settling, Once Were Brothers inadvertently ends up selling the Band, and even Robertson himself, short.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
A good primer on the group's formation, influences and rise.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Robertson's sadness, his sense of having witnessed friends and collaborators get washed away by bitterness and addiction, was more fulsomely evoked by Scorsese in The Last Waltz.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
Has the power to transport you but also to break your heart.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
The dead can't talk, and "Once Were Brothers" would be a very different film if they could.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
An engaging if well-travelled musical journey.
Variety
Chris Willman
It's no surprise to anyone who's met him or even listened thoughtfully to some of the greatest rock songs ever written that Robertson would be such an articulate and ingratiating tour guide through all this glorious and eventually tortured history.
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