SummaryThe story of Roky Erickson: the manic singer and front man for the legendary band, The 13th Floor Elevators, You’re Gonna Miss Me, is a disturbingly intimate portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion. (Palm Pictures)
Directed By:Keven McAlester
You're Gonna Miss Me
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Remarkable and evenhanded film.
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The opening and closing courtroom scenes, in which brother Sumner is granted legal guardianship, show a family in need of healing, mentally and spiritually.
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Complexly intriguing documentary about psychedelic rock icon Roky Erickson.
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Luckily, the director Keven McAlester keeps Mr. Erickson's humanity front and center. He lets music critics and musicians praise Mr. Erickson's smiling banshee voice (which influenced Janis Joplin) and pioneering use of feedback, but he doesn't insist on his subject's genius or oversell his importance.
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A great meld of rock history, the sociological and familial impacts of mental disability and some courtroom intrigue.
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Director Keven McAlester's film is entertaining. But with battered archival footage and celebrity worship, McAlester skimps on perspective and complexity.
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Has the taint of exploitation.
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Production Company:
- Sobriquet Productions
Release Date:Jun 8, 2007
Duration:1 h 31 m
Tagline:Concerning Roky Erickson, the great lost pioneer of rock and roll, and his mother, Evelyn
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Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
