Phil Ochs in the News

DVD: 'Limitless,' 'Potiche,' 'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune,'
Los Angeles Daily News
"Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune" is balanced account of the 1960s folksinger's life. Ochs, who committed suicide at 35 in 1976, was neither...

WORD UP! - Enthralling Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune ...
PAPERMAG
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (First Run Features), a fascinating documentary by Kenneth Bowser on the short life of the folk singer/songwriter, is out now on DVD. Ochs, an intensely handsome protest singer who committed suicide in ...

First Run Features Releases Three On DVD
Documentaries.About.com
The titles are: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune - Lee Bowser's thoroughly researched and brilliantly composed documentary about Phil Ochs not only captures the power of the singer/songwriter's personality, it reveals the social and political strife of ...

Phil Ochs: There But For Forture (Review)
Cincinnati CityBeat
By Steven Rosen Phil Ochs was Bob Dylan's chief rival as a Folk-based protest singer in the 1960s — Christopher Hitchens, interviewed in this documentary, maintains Ochs was better, more politically pointed and with a more sarcastic and ...

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune tunes to wild '60s folksinger
Straight.com
By Allan MacInnis, July 28, 2011 Kenneth Bowser, director of the praised documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, is among those fortunate enough to have seen the 1960s folksinger-activist perform twice—he thinks. “As Dennis Hopper used http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifto say ...

RIVERSIDE: 'Phil Ochs' documentary mirrors today
InlandSoCal.com
By TIMOTHY GUY With its theme of history making events defining a generation, the documentary "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune," strikes a cord with things that are happening in the world today. And in a sad twist of fate, the film also highlights the ...