“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read”….Johnny cash
Head down to Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood Thursday June 3rd where My Father And The Man In Black screens at at 7pm.
The 2012 documentary My Father And The Man In Black is the story of Saul Holiff, the manager of Johnny Cash from 1960 to 1973, told from the personal perspective of Holiff’s son, Jonathan. After Saul Holiff’s suicide, his estranged son, Jonathon, returns home. There, Jonathon learns from his mother that his father’s personal records exist in storage. As Jonathon searches through them, he discovers much about his father’s life of deferred dreams in London,...
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read”….Johnny cash
Head down to Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood Thursday June 3rd where My Father And The Man In Black screens at at 7pm.
The 2012 documentary My Father And The Man In Black is the story of Saul Holiff, the manager of Johnny Cash from 1960 to 1973, told from the personal perspective of Holiff’s son, Jonathan. After Saul Holiff’s suicide, his estranged son, Jonathon, returns home. There, Jonathon learns from his mother that his father’s personal records exist in storage. As Jonathon searches through them, he discovers much about his father’s life of deferred dreams in London,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Within minutes of it's 88-minute running time, it becomes apparent that My Father and the Man in Black inherently runs the risk of coming across as self-indulgent storytelling. The writer and narrator is Jonathan Holiff, a former Los Angeles talent agent, but his main claim to fame (and reason for the documentary) is that his father was Saul Holiff. That name probably means nothing to you unless you're a big fan of Johnny Cash, in which case you might realize he was Cash's longtime manager from about 1960 until resigning the role in 1973. The film starts with a reenactment of the senior Holiff committing suicide in 2005 at the age of 80, followed by the younger Holiff's voiced-over narration explaining that the two had been estranged for twenty years and that Saul had never been much of a father at all. Jonathan also reveals that he was quite the Hollywood hotshot himself...
- 9/5/2013
- by Linc Leifeste
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
★★★☆☆ Jonathan Holiff's engaging debut, My Father and the Man in Black (2012), benefits greatly from its third party storytelling, as he strives to discover what drove his father, Saul - the former manager of country legend Johnny Cash - to suicide. Holiff instantly sets a bleak tone by depicting a man chasing handfuls of pills with vodka and taping a plastic bag around his head before lying down to die. This acts as an invite into the point of Holiff's quest, as it is soon revealed that a recent discovery of a significant amount of recordings, clippings and photographs had inspired Holiff's decision to re-connect with his late father.
We're informed early on of the two types of father, both arguably equal in bad parenting terms, that Jonathan grew up with - one a distant, neglectful man who was barely home (Jonathan thought his father was Cash when he was...
We're informed early on of the two types of father, both arguably equal in bad parenting terms, that Jonathan grew up with - one a distant, neglectful man who was barely home (Jonathan thought his father was Cash when he was...
- 8/1/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Johnny Cash's story is an iconic fable of a troubled and talented storyteller, who found surprising, eventual redemption through faith.
Less explored is the relationship between Cash and his former manager, Saul Holiff.
While Holiff was central to some of Cash's most defining performances, and even responsible for bringing June Carter to his side for one of country music's most celebrated partnerships, and love stories, he had his own demons.
Johnny Cash and Saul Holiff's partnership was very close, but also much troubled
He sacrificed his own family life to tend to the career of his talented client, and later to deal with the fall-out as Cash succumbed to temptations and failed to honour performances and recording contracts.
Never close to his father, Jonathan Holiff was nonetheless shocked by Saul's suicide in 2005. And he was even more stunned to discover a storage locker full of Saul's letters...
Less explored is the relationship between Cash and his former manager, Saul Holiff.
While Holiff was central to some of Cash's most defining performances, and even responsible for bringing June Carter to his side for one of country music's most celebrated partnerships, and love stories, he had his own demons.
Johnny Cash and Saul Holiff's partnership was very close, but also much troubled
He sacrificed his own family life to tend to the career of his talented client, and later to deal with the fall-out as Cash succumbed to temptations and failed to honour performances and recording contracts.
Never close to his father, Jonathan Holiff was nonetheless shocked by Saul's suicide in 2005. And he was even more stunned to discover a storage locker full of Saul's letters...
- 7/30/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
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