Phil Ochs in the News: There But for Fortune Documentary Film Reviews

Balboa Theater screens documentary on Phil Ochs
San Francisco Examiner
Music documentary: “Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune,” a new documentary about the 1960s troubadour, is playing at the Balboa Theater. Violinist Regina Carter, recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, performs at Yoshi's. Her latest recording, “Reverse ...

Folk Singer Documentary Captures a Generation
Patch.com
By Zack Ruskin
A line of patrons waiting to see a screening of “Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune” snaked from the Rafael Theatre around A Street yesterday evening. The film, introduced by Ochs's daughter, Meegan Lee Ochs ...

The Rise and Fall of Progressive Dissent
Beyond Chron
22‚ 2011 The remarkable new documentary on 1960's folksinger and activist Phil Ochs offers a striking contrast between 1960's activists and those of 2011. The former engaged in massive anti-war protests against Democratic President Lyndon Johnson ...

The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity
Huffington Post
With massive demonstrations in Wisconsin and Michigan (as well as what's happening throughout the Middle East), the timely release of Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune is cause for celebration. A beloved singer-songwriter of protest songs (who recorded ...

Culture Shocks: Sonny Ochs
with Barry Lynn
Sonny Ochs, the sister of 60′s folk singer, Phil Ochs talks about her brother and the Kenneth Bowser documentary, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune detailing his life and music.

Movie Stars
Boston Globe
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune A clear-eyed memorial to the late folk singer, whose mixture of ambition and idealism ensured he wouldn't get out of the counterculture years alive. ...

Review: Documentary captures life and music of' 60s folk singer Ochs
Lincoln Journal Star
"Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune" follows the folk singers life and music. (Courtesy photo) The Reel Story: This powerful documentary tells the story of 1960s/1970s folk singer Phil Ochs and his still relevant political/protest music. ...

Phil Ochs: A Folk Legend Lost And The Film That Revives Him
Crawdaddy! Magazine
Director Ken Bowser is on a roll. He’s juggling phone calls in his New York City office, talking to theaters all over America that are eager to show his new documentary Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune.

For sale: The house where Greenpeace was born
Globe and Mail
In 1970, the folk singer Phil Ochs accepted an invitation to dinner. He was to perform that night at a fundraising concert, along with Joni Mitchell and ...

A Conversation With Dawn Danby, Sustainable Design Expert
The Atlantic
Honestly, Phil Ochs's "Tape from California" is stuck looping in my head, although I'm listening to a lot of Chad VanGaalen and Ali Farka Touré. ...

Communication frustration
San Diego CityBEAT
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune: Documentary about the legendary folk singer, whose antiwar songs united a generation and spawned his depression and ...

Phil Ochs in the News: There But for Fortune Documentary Film Reviews

Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune review
Washington Post
By Michael O'Sullivan A dark shadow hangs over Kenneth Bowser's documentary portrait "Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune." It isn't the 1976 suicide of the ...

Phil Ochs: 'Gone' not forgotten
Boston Herald
By James Verniere The biographical documentary “Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune” opens today at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and begins with the ...

Phil Ochs' daughter on 'There But for Fortune'
San Francisco Chronicle
Meegan Lee Ochs with a photo of her and dad Phil Ochs on one of his albums. Among the folk and protest singers who populated Greenwich Village a generation ...

Art House Beat: Phil Ochs Finally Gets His Own Movie, and It's a Pretty Good One
Seattle Post Globe
Now, thirty-five years after his death, Ochs is finally the star of his own movie and the supporting cast, which includes Ed Sanders, Van Dyke Parks, Joan Baez, Judy Henske, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger, and Peter Yarrow, is flawless.

The highs and lows of a defiant folk singer
Boston Globe
Phil Ochs performing during a Vietnam moratorium demonstration outside the ... (Michael Ochs) By Ty Burr The short, triumphant, tragic career of Phil Ochs ...

Phil Ochs: Why Neil Young, Ben Barnett & other great musicians love him (& why you should see his doc at NWFF!)
Three Imaginary Girls
Ochs isn't for your parents: He's for you, just like Tim Buckley, or The Clash, or Dylan, or Crass, or The Mekons, or Parenthetical Girls, or The Slits, or whatever great folk-swooning-cum-punk-spirited muse-filled anti-authoritarian artist juiced you up when you first fell in love with rock as rebellion, Ochs had more in common with John Belushi's Bluto smashing the acoustic guitar against the wall of a frat house in Animal House than the preppie playing it to impress someone with a corny 50s folk song.

Film Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
Berkeley Daily Planet
Phil Ochs during a Vietnam moratorium demonstration outside the UN Building in New York in 1967. There but for Fortune, a loving tribute to the remarkable career of political activist and balladeer Phil Ochs, is the film my generation has been waiting ...

Film Review — “Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune” - Mar 16
Beyond Chron
16‚ 2011 Political folk singer Phil Ochs could be called a leftist John Wayne whose topical songs nurtured American political culture's better angels. The story of Ochs' musical career and his tragically brief life are recounted in Kenneth Bowser's ...

New doc exposes the bleeding heart of Phil Ochs
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Goldie Hawn on "Laugh-In," ..., you probably would not flash on the name of Phil Ochs until around 65 or so. Which is sad, considering that the life of Ochs "" as pointed out in the new documentary "Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune" "" is, in microcosm ...

Phil Ochs doc, animated alien 'Paul,' Ann Arbor Film Fest, and more at the ...
AnnArbor.com
Over the course of a meteoric music career that spanned two turbulent decades, folk singer Phil Ochs rose to fame at the height of the 1960s protest movements; fiercely devoted to championing peace and social justice, his incisive lyrics and resonant ...

Pick of the Day: Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune at Belcourt ...
Nashville Scene
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune Where: The BelcourtWhen: March 15-17 Too prickly and ironic a truth-teller to be fully embraced by the same wide...

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Movies | Metro Newspapers
Metro Active
The latest information on new movies, including reviews and showtimes, as well as a listing of theaters throughout the South Bay Area.

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes
Bohemian.com
Phil Ochs documentary covers all the bases. By Richard von Busack. The long- awaited documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune leaves nothing to be ...

Review: A thoughtful 'Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune'
San Jose Mercury News
By Kenneth Turan The short and tragic life of Phil Ochs is as involving as the music he wrote and played, and that is saying a great deal. If you remember the 1960s, you more than likely remember the singer-songwriter who composed hundreds of songs, ...

Phil Ochs on television
Hartford Advocate
By Ann Lewinson The documentary Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune, which opens tonight at Real Art Ways with a post-screening discussion with Phil's sister Sonny, may leave you with the impression that director Kenneth Bowser didn't have much footage to ...

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2010)
Culture Vulture
"Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune," is a perceptive and moving documentary film about the iconic folk music hero and political protester of the 1960s. The film is a "must see" for those who lived through the turbulent 1960s and those who today question our country's continuing engagement in foreign wars.

Phil Ochs in the News

'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune'
MiamiHerald.com
By KENNETH TURAN LOS ANGELES -- The short and tragic life of Phil Ochs is as involving as the music he wrote and played, and that is saying a great deal. If you remember the 1960s, you more than likely remember the singer-songwriter who composed ...

Suicidal Bob Dylan Rival Phil Ochs: A Movie Star at Last
Hollywood Reporter
After 20 years' work, Ken Bowser's doc about '60s folk singer Phil Ochs opens Friday, with a little help from Sean Penn and "Spider-Man" producer Michael Cohl. After 20 years' work, Ken Bowser's doc about '60s folk singer Phil Ochs opens in six cities ...

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune -- New Documentary Opens in Los Angeles
Huffington Post
At the center of the storm was Phil Ochs, a singer/songwriter who's been overlooked by many but who penned such anthems of the era as Joan Baez's signature song, "There But For Fortune" which is the title of a new feature length documentary about Ochs ...

Phil Ochs, Tom Paine and American Redemption
CounterPunch
By BRUCE E. LEVINE In the 1960s, singer/songwriter/revolutionary Phil Ochs was sometimes described as “Tom Paine with a guitar.” Without regard for political correctness, both Paine and Ochs confronted all illegitimate authorities and hypocrisy. ...

ZCommunications | Phil Ochs by John Pietaro | ZMagazine Article
Documentarian Ken Bowser walked up the aisle to the front of the IFC Center in Greenwich Village for the premiere of Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune and ...

Review: "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune" Sings | NBC Bay Area
A new documentary about the singer-songwriter, is here to tell people of the man's greatness.

Movie guide alt: Independent, limited release and foreign-language ...
Macon Telegraph
"Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune" - This documentary follows the music career of folk singer and political activist Phil Ochs. With Joan Baez, Tom Hayden, ...

Movie review: 'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune' - Los Angeles Times
The short and tragic life of Phil Ochs is as involving as the music he wrote and played, and that is saying a great deal. If you remember the 1960s, ...

'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune': Movie Review - WTXX
Phil Ochs' short, tragic life and tremendous musical legacy are explored in Kenneth Bowser's excellent 'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune.'

Film Review: Phil Ochs – There But For Fortune - Americana and ...
Although his name is mainly a footnote today, Phil Ochs was one of folk music's headliners in the early '60s, rivaling Bob Dylan in the spotlight of fame ...

Protest songs: posing or inspiring?
By Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor, The Telegraph
A new book called 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a brilliant history of protest music but it has some downbeat conclusions.

Movie Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune @ NWFF
By Chris Estey
He shows up in an early, bizarre They Might Be Giants song — “The Day (Marvin Gaye And Phil Ochs Got Married)”. (What was going on with that?) You hear about influential, long-time indie-scene musicians such as Billy Bragg, ...

Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune - Reviews
The Boston Phoenix
Powerful rock doc about America's seminal protest rocker.

Phil Ochs and the Marxist Minstrels