By Those Who Knew Him Best
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Artist: Jimi HendrixBrand: Music Video Dist
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo; None (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 59 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mvd Visual
Product features:
- JIMI HENDRIX - BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BES (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of By Those Who Knew Him Best
DVD Review: An Avarice-Soaked Hoax
Summary: 1 Stars
Beware of this money-sucking stunt, "by those who knew him best." What a joke, even were this being offered for free.
Not one of Jimi's band-mates is interviewed, nor any of his closest and most beloved girlfriends, and most criminally, this so-called documentary leaves out the elegant, aristocratic Linda Keith, who falling in love with Jimi as well launched the chain of causes that made him into a star. The phrase "those who knew him best" is an outright lie.
What the film does unwittingly expose is the severity of the infestation of the leeches, users, and music-industry philistines (who bled Mr. Jimi and kept bleeding him onto death), who all then get a magical glint in their eyes recounting what "good friends" they were with a being who in ancient times would've been considered a Demi-God and who held onto his dignity, despite the forms of human life swarming and swamping him.
It's tragic the Hendrix Estate itself doesn't issue more footage, both musically and philosophically, but Ms. Janie
Hendrix afflicted with the Christian neurosis and ever-sprouting puritanical impulses is thereby incapable of telling the truth about her half-brother's personality and life, and is constantly trying to "clean up" his biography and fake his history: nothing needs to be "cleaned;" Jimi Hendrix had more nobility and humaneness than the Dali Lama, Pope, et al., and neither this cheap film, nor the Estate propaganda convey the character of Mr. Hendrix. Anyone who wants more insight into who he was would be better served by the interview included as an extra in the new (2005) Jimi at Woodstock Dvd, as well as the Film About Jimi Hendrix.
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