Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching a 2015 documentary in two parts on the life and times of Frank Sinatra, produced by HBO and directed by Alex Gibney (Going Clear, Mr. Dynamite, Catching Hell, Client 9).
Four hours of Ol' Blue eyes? Well pour some bourbon on the rocks, we're staying up late tonight!
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All takes an even-handed, warts-and-all look at Frank Sinatra and his life as one of the most important cultural icons of the 20th Century. Using lots of first person accounts, including lots of footage from Sinatra himself, the documentary cleverly frames itself around Sinatra's 1971 "Retirement" concert in Los Angeles.
The file uses the 11 songs that Sinatra hand-picked to represent his entire career at the time of his "retirement" as chapters to in its story. In case you're wondering, here's the setlist from that June of 1971 "retirement" concert:
All Or Nothing At All
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
I’ll Never Smile Again
Ol’ Man River
That’s Life
Try A Little Tenderness
Fly Me To The Moon
Nancy (with the Laughing Face)
My Way
The Lady Is A Tramp
Angel Eyes
Sinatra's life and career is weaved into the fabric of America's 20th Century and the documentary touches on many of these aspects. Personally, we wished it would have been a little more salacious with the sex-stuff, the mob-stuff, the Kennedy-stuff, etc. But that's because we're degenerates who get off on that sort of thing!
Oh and more Ava Gardner! yowsa!
At least the documentary devotes only about 10 minutes to cover Sinatra's post-retirement career from 1971 until his death in 1998.
Drink up all you people, order anything you see...
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching a 2015 documentary in two parts on the life and times of Frank Sinatra, produced by HBO and directed by Alex Gibney (Going Clear, Mr. Dynamite, Catching Hell, Client 9).
Four hours of Ol' Blue eyes? Well pour some bourbon on the rocks, we're staying up late tonight!
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All takes an even-handed, warts-and-all look at Frank Sinatra and his life as one of the most important cultural icons of the 20th Century. Using lots of first person accounts, including lots of footage from Sinatra himself, the documentary cleverly frames itself around Sinatra's 1971 "Retirement" concert in Los Angeles.
The file uses the 11 songs that Sinatra hand-picked to represent his entire career at the time of his "retirement" as chapters to in its story. In case you're wondering, here's the setlist from that June of 1971 "retirement" concert:
All Or Nothing At All
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
I’ll Never Smile Again
Ol’ Man River
That’s Life
Try A Little Tenderness
Fly Me To The Moon
Nancy (with the Laughing Face)
My Way
The Lady Is A Tramp
Angel Eyes
Sinatra's life and career is weaved into the fabric of America's 20th Century and the documentary touches on many of these aspects. Personally, we wished it would have been a little more salacious with the sex-stuff, the mob-stuff, the Kennedy-stuff, etc. But that's because we're degenerates who get off on that sort of thing!
Oh and more Ava Gardner! yowsa!
At least the documentary devotes only about 10 minutes to cover Sinatra's post-retirement career from 1971 until his death in 1998.
Drink up all you people, order anything you see...
We give this one two raised cocktail glasses!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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