Jeff Buckley, “Live at Sin-é” returns
Following the arrival of “It’s never over”the documentary about the life of Jeff Buckley which debuted last summer in US cinemas, “Live at Sin-é” will also be re-released on February 13th. The iconic – that’s not an exaggeration” debut EP of the singer-songwriter was published in 1993: it contained four songs, two originals and two covers, recorded for voice and guitar in a New York café where Jeff played regularly, and where he initially got noticed by the public and record companies. The new one has been expanded into a hard box set containing four vinyls with as many individually designed covers, a booklet with liner notes and color photos and live versions of iconic songs such as “Grace”, “Last Goodbye” and “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen”, which take up the expanded “Legacy edition” version released on double CD in 2003. The new version will also be released on CD.
A month later, 16, 17, 18 March, the documentary will also arrive in Italian cinemas, directed by Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg, and co-produced by Brad Pitt. “I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t think about making a film about Jeff Buckley,” Berg said. “I’ve been thinking about it at least since I started making films in 2006. Or maybe since ’94, when I listened to Grace for the first time… Mary, Jeff’s mother, is the first person I met to outline the thing. At the time, 18 years ago, she was thinking of a biopic. But her archive materials were unforgettable: I think for example of the last poignant voice message left on the answering machine. I was certain that a documentary would come out of it; and in 2019 my proposal was accepted. It was a beautiful labor of love, for us who didn’t know him, to get as close to him as possible.”
Since his tragic death in May 1997, at the age of 30, there have been many attempts to make a film about his life. In the documentary it is revealed that the mother of Jeff Buckley he didn’t want his son to be played by in a biopic Brad Pitt. The director Amy Berg To make the first authorized film of Jeff’s life, it used archival footage, as well as new interviews with his family and those who knew him. Furthermore, in the documentary, new hypotheses are made about his disappearance. The artist drowned in Wolf River Harbor, a tributary of the Mississippi, in Memphis, on May 29, 1997. His body was found just five days later, and an autopsy revealed no traces of drugs or alcohol, confirming the accidental drowning.
