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SXSW reviews

posted 3 years ago by Satan2016 (25525)
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Should be more tomorrow.

Review: Doc About a Prog-Rock Perfectionist Is Nearly Perfect Itself
https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/in-the-court-crimson-king-review-roger-fripp-1235205120/

“In the Court of the Crimson King” is really about as good as rock documentaries get, in capturing the essence of a group of musicians and how they relate to each other, the world and a muse whose demands result in literal and figurative calluses. That doesn’t mean that King Crimson is the kind of Everyman group whose struggles will be relatable even to garage bands, the way the Beatles’ battles were in “Get Back.” There’s nothing remotely prototypical about this one-of-a-kind crew — although there may be some universality that other bands can relate to in how King Crimson has somehow survived for 53 years as a not-always-benign dictatorship.

[–] mtxmind (3296) 3 years ago

I'll have to probably wait until it comes out on DVD,unless it's gonna be released on streaming too.

One thing you gotta say about Robert Fripp: for a guy with a reputation for being a "cunt', he's so......polite about it!

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 3 years ago

This review talks about the band. They didn't release photos during the first three albums. There is one from 1971. Release later this year.

‘A force entirely of itself’: Robert Fripp on the difficult legacy of King Crimson
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/16/robert-fripp-difficult-legacy-of-king-crimson

[Fripp] chose director Toby Amies, “who had no familiarity with King Crimson whatsoever. For me, this was ideal,” he said. “I thought, ‘here is an independent film-maker with his own attitude who will come in and show me aspects of King Crimson that I’m perhaps unaware of.’”

More, he hoped Amies’s film would “tell me what King Crimson is”.

That may seem like a strange goal for Fripp, who not only helped conceive this unique beast of a band back in 1969 but who has served as its only consistent member since. Yet, as the documentary, titled In the Court of the Crimson King, cleverly presents, this isn’t a band easily bound by description, even by those who are part of it. Throughout Crimson’s many splendored incarnations, they have always been more about a method than a sound. Or, as Fripp put it, “King Crimson is a way of doing things”.

[–] mtxmind (3296) 3 years ago

I think you could say that King Crimson is the ultimate Art-Conceptual Rock Band, in that they refuse to explain themselves & want the fans to interpret it for themselves. Not unlike bands like The Residents.