Billie

"Is there any perversity in this?" This is a painful one to rate. Billie Holiday one of the most fascinating and tragic icons of American music, let alone jazz. As the film portrays, she is a singer who was trapped in a cycle of exploitation and abuse that fueled her…

Tucker

There will never be anyone like Lady Day

Sara Clements

A fascinating documentary about the famed singer, using journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl’s taped interviews with the people who knew her. It is great for the way it brings Holliday’s story alive, as the interviews make it feel a lot more personal than other documentaries that…

Josh Gillam

The documentary Billie doesn’t begin with Lady Day, but with her documentarian, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Director James Erskine derives the core of his film from the audio interviews that Kuehl recorded in her research on Holiday with a multitude of performers,…

kennelco

Music documentary: The film is built around audio tapes recorded by a writer who interviewed people in the 70’s who knew Billie Holiday. There are some interesting comments on the tapes and I learned a bit, like Jo Jones had a really bad attitude. The film uses film clips…

Nilknarf

Que vida mas triste tuvo esta mujer.

Amaia❄️

Fascinating audio recordings, the visuals are suboptimal at best. But hearing audio from some of the best artists thru the thirties, fourties, and fifties went a long way for me. It doesn't quite know what it wants to be due to the peculiar circumstances of the audio tapes…

Taylor Baker

In the 1970s, a journalist working on a Billie Holiday biography recorded hours upon hours of interviews with Billie Holiday's family and entourage. Those tapes have never been heard, until now. For those, like me, who love Lady Day, there is much to celebrate in this…

SaintPauly

A documentary based on recently discovered audio cassette tapes of interviews done over 10 years after her death in the 1970's gives us insight into the most unique and enigmatic singer of the last century. The individual interviews of former lovers, pimps, band mates,…

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