For fans of this kind of roots music, it was an event you would have given anything to attend. Down From the Mountain lets you do that and gives you terrific seats in the bargain.
If the heart of the film is Hartford, who late in his struggle with cancer conveys the luminous colors of a man at his twilight, its soul is Welch.
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New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Good music stands alone, and the documentary is jaunty fun.
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Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A delightful concert documentary that proves once more what a neglected masterpiece the Coen Brothers gave us last year in their Depression chain-gang odyssey, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"