DOC’N ROLL FILM FESTIVAL
8/10
WHEN Judee Sill died in 1979 at the age of 35, she left behind a slim catalogue of songs that went underappreciated during her lifetime but now seem as sublime as anything by her fabled generation of LA singer/songwriters. What Sill didn’t leave was much of a visual record. Given that scant supply – for example, grainy footage of an outdoorin 1973, an performance – a documentary portrait of Sill was always going to be a challenge. Yet in making , directors Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom still find ways to create something of the same grace and beauty heard in Sill’s music.
