Singer-songwriter Judee Sill packed a lot of living into her 35 years, much of it hard. Drugs, reform school, losing her father when she was just 8. Of her mother she said, “She was mean on top of being dumb.”
In her late teens, in the early 1960s, she got involved with a bad hombre in Southern California and they pulled off a few armed robberies. In one incident, she reportedly told a guy behind a liquor store counter, “Okay, mother sticker, this is a fuck up!” Humor she did not lack.
As a child Sill learned piano at an upright in a saloon owned by her dad. She mastered other instruments, including bass and guitar. In juvenile hall – where she was sent after an arrest for forging checks – she played the organ. Somehow, through cracks in the unpolished concrete of a difficult youth, a flowering talent emerged. She could draw, she could sing,...
In her late teens, in the early 1960s, she got involved with a bad hombre in Southern California and they pulled off a few armed robberies. In one incident, she reportedly told a guy behind a liquor store counter, “Okay, mother sticker, this is a fuck up!” Humor she did not lack.
As a child Sill learned piano at an upright in a saloon owned by her dad. She mastered other instruments, including bass and guitar. In juvenile hall – where she was sent after an arrest for forging checks – she played the organ. Somehow, through cracks in the unpolished concrete of a difficult youth, a flowering talent emerged. She could draw, she could sing,...
- 5/5/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill, a documentary about the gifted singer-songwriter who was equal parts talented and tortured.
The film directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom (Alien Boy: The Life & Death of James Chasse) premiered at Doc NYC in 2022. Greenwich plans to release Lost Angel in theaters on April 12. Watch the trailer below.
“An intimate portrait of a one-of-a-kind singer-songwriter from 1970s Los Angeles, the documentary charts the life of Judee Sill from a troubled adolescence that included armed robbery and prison through her meteoric rise in the music world and tragic early death,” notes a description of the documentary. “In just over two years, Judee went from living in a car to a deal with Asylum Records and the cover of Rolling Stone. As told by Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, David Geffen and Jd Souther...
The film directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom (Alien Boy: The Life & Death of James Chasse) premiered at Doc NYC in 2022. Greenwich plans to release Lost Angel in theaters on April 12. Watch the trailer below.
“An intimate portrait of a one-of-a-kind singer-songwriter from 1970s Los Angeles, the documentary charts the life of Judee Sill from a troubled adolescence that included armed robbery and prison through her meteoric rise in the music world and tragic early death,” notes a description of the documentary. “In just over two years, Judee went from living in a car to a deal with Asylum Records and the cover of Rolling Stone. As told by Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, David Geffen and Jd Souther...
- 2/6/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Sound Unseen, the music documentary festival held in Minneapolis, is returning with a slew of rock docs including Alison Ellwood’s Cyndi Lauper film Let the Canary Sing and the North American premiere of Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin about the Libertines co-founder.
The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.
Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”
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The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.
Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”
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- 10/4/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The avalanche of music docs over the past decade has left very few stones unturned — and more than a few films that can barely justify their running times if not their existence. But one overdue and heretofore untold story is that of Judee Sill, a brilliant, innovative early ‘70s singer-songwriter who was the first artist signed to David Geffen’s Asylum Records, and was labelmates and/or a contemporary of the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, David Crosby and Joni Mitchell. Sill was frequently compared with the latter (to her great annoyance) and although there are few direct musical similarities, they were both among the most original and innovative singer-songwriters of the era: Her music fit early ‘70s Southern California vibe of her label and milieu, but it was stranger, with deep classical influences, wildly unusual structures and voicings and often dark subject matter.
The latter factor was...
The latter factor was...
- 11/15/2022
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone from Jackson Browne to Weyes Blood reflects on the brilliance of Judee Sill in a new trailer for an upcoming documentary about the widely revered, if little-known, singer-songwriter.
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill will trace Sill’s remarkable rise from a troubled teen responsible for a handful of armed stick-ups to one of the most promising and revered artists of the Seventies. But tragically, Sill died of a drug overdose in 1979, never reaching the same heights as some of her peers, like Browne, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt,...
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill will trace Sill’s remarkable rise from a troubled teen responsible for a handful of armed stick-ups to one of the most promising and revered artists of the Seventies. But tragically, Sill died of a drug overdose in 1979, never reaching the same heights as some of her peers, like Browne, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Hulu has picked up Tiny Beautiful Things to series. Kathryn Hahn (Wandavision) will star in the half-hour comedy from ABC Signature and Hello Sunshine.
Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere) will serve as creator and executive producer of the series that’s based on Cheryl Strayed’s New York Times bestselling book of the same name. Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Lauren Neustadter, Stacey Silverman and Jayme Lemons will executive produce, along with Strayed and Hahn.
2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
The project reunites Witherspoon, Dern and Strayed, who collaborated on the 2014 film Wild. Witherspoon also teamed with Tigelaar and ABC Signature on the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere.
Here’s the logline: “Tiny Beautiful Things is about a woman who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar — an anonymous, revered advice columnist — when her own life is falling apart. Told in multiple timelines with astonishing intimacy, nerve and candor, she excavates the beauty, struggle and...
Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere) will serve as creator and executive producer of the series that’s based on Cheryl Strayed’s New York Times bestselling book of the same name. Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Lauren Neustadter, Stacey Silverman and Jayme Lemons will executive produce, along with Strayed and Hahn.
2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
The project reunites Witherspoon, Dern and Strayed, who collaborated on the 2014 film Wild. Witherspoon also teamed with Tigelaar and ABC Signature on the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere.
Here’s the logline: “Tiny Beautiful Things is about a woman who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar — an anonymous, revered advice columnist — when her own life is falling apart. Told in multiple timelines with astonishing intimacy, nerve and candor, she excavates the beauty, struggle and...
- 6/6/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Cheryl Strayed wants you to know she's getting even wilder: She, Reese Witherspoon, and Laura Dern — three of the major players behind the big-screen version of Wild — will reunite for a potential TV show based on more of the author's writings, according to reports. The trifecta, along with Strayed's husband, is developing a series for HBO based on Tiny Beautiful Things, the writer's collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns. "It will be a drama with a lot of humor in it ... We're really excited about it," Strayed told The Oregonian, noting that she and her husband, Brian Lindstrom, went to L.A., with Witherspoon and Dern on either side of them, to pitch, and that HBO execs "bought the idea in the room." That idea reportedly has Dern playing the advice columnist in question and might include something for Witherspoon, too; both actresses are also set to join Strayed, Lindstrom,...
- 10/27/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern are teaming up again to develop an HBO drama based on a book by “Wild” author Cheryl Strayed. The adaptation of Strayed’s 2012 book, “Tiny Little Things,” will explore love, loss, lust and life through the eyes of a Portland family who live by the mantra that the truth will never kill you. The book is a compilation of essays from Strayed’s time as an advice columnist. The author will write the adaptation with her husband, Brian Lindstrom. Also Read: 'The Leftovers' Star Regina King Teases 'Colorful' Second Season, Making Emmy History The couple...
- 10/27/2015
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Wild stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern have reteamed for another screen adaptation of a book by Wild author Cheryl Strayed, this time for TV. HBO has put in development Tiny Beautiful Things, a drama series based on Strayed's bestselling 2012 book of the same name, a collection of essays compiled from Strayed’s Dear Sugar advice column. Strayed and her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, will write the TV adaptation, set to explore love, loss, lust and life through…...
- 10/26/2015
- Deadline TV
"Wild" stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern are re-teaming for an HBO TV drama series adaptation of "Wild" author Cheryl Strayed's 2012 novel "Tiny Beautiful Things". The work is a collection of essays compiled from the author's Dear Sugar advice column.
The series will explore love, loss, lust and life through the eyes of a Portland family who live by the mantra that the truth will never kill you. Strayed and her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, will write the TV adaptation while Witherspoon, Dern, Strayed and Lindstrom will executive produce.
The news follows on from word that HBO is also developing the limited series "Big Little Lies" with "Wild" director Jean-Marc Vallee is in talks to helm at least the first episode and potentially more. Nathan Ross will produce that project.
David E. Kelley is penning the adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel, while Nicole Kidman and Witherspoon are set...
The series will explore love, loss, lust and life through the eyes of a Portland family who live by the mantra that the truth will never kill you. Strayed and her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, will write the TV adaptation while Witherspoon, Dern, Strayed and Lindstrom will executive produce.
The news follows on from word that HBO is also developing the limited series "Big Little Lies" with "Wild" director Jean-Marc Vallee is in talks to helm at least the first episode and potentially more. Nathan Ross will produce that project.
David E. Kelley is penning the adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel, while Nicole Kidman and Witherspoon are set...
- 10/26/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Cheryl Strayed walked 1,100 miles in a pair of trusty hiking boots, but these days she has mastered a very different footwear challenge. "The one thing that has changed is that I've learned how to wear high heels," she tells People of life after Wild, the bestselling 2012 memoir in which she chronicles her soul-searching journey on the Pacific Crest Trail at age 26. With the film adaptation hitting theaters on Dec. 5, Strayed, 46, has been busy serving as "Wild ambassador" around the world alongside her friend and onscreen alter ego, Reese Witherspoon. "I had never worn heels before until these last few months,...
- 12/5/2014
- by Michelle Tauber, @michelletauber
- PEOPLE.com
Cheryl Strayed walked 1,100 miles in a pair of trusty hiking boots, but these days she has mastered a very different footwear challenge. "The one thing that has changed is that I've learned how to wear high heels," she tells People of life after Wild, the bestselling 2012 memoir in which she chronicles her soul-searching journey on the Pacific Crest Trail at age 26. With the film adaptation hitting theaters on Dec. 5, Strayed, 46, has been busy serving as "Wild ambassador" around the world alongside her friend and onscreen alter ego, Reese Witherspoon. "I had never worn heels before until these last few months,...
- 12/5/2014
- by Michelle Tauber, @michelletauber
- PEOPLE.com
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