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BRIAN WILSON: LONG PROMISED ROADLEY LINE ENTERTAINMENT

8/10

Touching new Brian Wilson film finds magic and loss on the freeway of memory

NEAR the start of Brent Wilson’s modest, elliptical, ultimately desperately moving new documentary, the director sits Brian Wilson at a piano in his lambent Beverly Hills mansion and tosses him a few questions about his unexpectedly productive third act. “You’ve been working non-stop since your late fifties. Where did this sudden surge of creativity come from?” “Well,” says Brian, looking

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