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Alan Scherstuhl MEMORIES OF JOHNNY CASH
A FANTASTIC NEW DOCUMENTARY BY THE SON OF JOHNNY CASH'S MANAGER
It’s a weird miracle that Johnny Cash and his primitive twosome banged out music that still feels so full and vital today. And it’s a weird miracle that My Father and the Man in Black is itself full and vital, despite throwing off all sorts of vanity-project warning signs: It’s directed by a first-timer with a personal stake in the story. It tells much of that story through green-screen re-enactments in which actors play the father of that director and no one less a personage than Cash himself, that hopped-up oak of a man. It even opens with a reel-to-reel playing back a conversation between the director, age 7, and his father.
But, as Cash might say, it has the heart, and it has t
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