Friday, March 29, 2024

EUR Sneak Peak: Sundance Grand Jury Winner Eugene Jarecki’s ‘The King’ (Watch!)

*SYNOPSIS: Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film “The King,”  takes the Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here.

Contributors: Alec Baldwin (actor), Tony Brown (record executive and Elvis’ pianist), James Carville (political analyst), Rosanne Cash (singer/songwriter), Marc Cooper (journalist, author), Terri Davidson (Elvis’ birthplace tour guide), Chuck D (rap artist, founder of Public Enemy), Radney Foster (singer/songwriter), Patricia Gaines (artist), Mary Gauthier (singer/songwriter), Larry Geller (Elvis’ stylist and spiritual advisor), Freddie Glusman (restaurateur, Las Vegas, NV), Peter Guralnick (Elvis biographer), Emmylou Harris (singer/songwriter), John Hiatt (singer/songwriter), Van Jones (television commentator and president of Rebuild the Dream), George Klein (Elvis’ friend), Ashton Kutcher (actor), Lisa Lee (current owner of Elvis’ boyhood home), Greil Marcus (author/biographer), Justin Merrick (choir director, Stax Music Academy, Memphis), Scotty Moore (Elvis’ guitarist), Mike Myers (actor), Jerry Phillips (musician/record executive), Trevor Potter (former Commissioner of Federal Election Commission), Dan Rather (broadcast journalist), Nancy Rooks (Graceland housekeeper), Dale Rushing (Elvis impersonator, Tupelo, MS), Luc Sante (writer/cultural critic), Jerry Schilling (Elvis’ friend/music manager), David Simon (journalist, television writer/director), Earlice Taylor (gospel singer, Elvis’ neighbor), Immortal Technique (rapper, activist), Linda Thompson (songwriter and Elvis’ former girlfriend), Brenda Tramontine (neighbor of Elvis’ childhood home, Tupelo, MS), Vencie Varnado (music manager, Mississippi), AC Wharton (former mayor, Memphis, TN), Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (U.S. Army (ret.), former Chief of Staff to Colonel Powell), Mark Wright (record executive, Nashville, TN).

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the king - poster

Musical appearances by: Emi Sunshine and The Rain, Leo Bud Welch, Earlice Taylor, Stax Music Academy Singers, M. Ward, John Hiatt, Loveful Heights, Immortal Technique, The Handsome Family, Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers, Justin Merrick and the Stax Academy All-Stars.

 

CREDITS

Oscilloscope Laboratories and Edgewood Way presents a Ghost in the Machine production

in association with ITVS, NDR, BR, The Jokers Films, Backup Studio

Edgewood Way presents a Ghost in the Machine production

in association with ITVS, NDR, BR, The Jokers Films, Backup Studio

 

Written and directed by: Eugene Jarecki

Edited by: Simon Barker, Élia Gasull Balada, Alex Bingham, Laura Israel

Music by: Robert Miller, Antony Genn, Martin Slattery

Executive producers: Steven Soderbergh, Errol Morris, Rosanne Cash

Producers: Christopher St. John, David Kuhn

 

 

 

 

 

source:
Kate Kowell
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