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Americana

Walk the Line

Walk the Line

Country: USA
Year: 2005
Duration: 135'


A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
 
“For me, it is just a wonderful story about a great man and a great life lived. It is less for me about his historical importance but just his journey. Rock and roll and music has become such a commodity, and when you talked with John and June you realized that they were the last of a generation.They were people who have lived through what has essentially been the birth of this country. They are the last people who sing first hand about their experiences. They aren’t singing because it is a folk song that they found in the Library of Congress. They are singing because they lived it. I still get a little ruffled when someone still refers to Johnny as a country music star. A guy who has influenced U2 and Nirvana.” (J. Mangold)

Biography

film director

James Mangold

James Mangold (New York, 1964), the son of artists, studied Acting and Directing at the California Institute of Arts and took courses in Cinema at Columbia University. After making a series of short films, he was hired by Disney when he was 21 to collaborate on the screenplay of the animated film Oliver & Company. His debut film, Heavy (1995), was presented at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for Directing. In 1997 Miramax produced his second full-length film, Copland, and in 2000 Angelina Jolie starred in his third film, Girl, Interrupted, which won her an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. He is now completing the remake of 3:10 for Yuma, the Delmer Daves western from 1957 starring Glenn Ford.

FILMOGRAFIA

Heavy (Dolly’s Restaurant, 1995), Copland (id., 1997), Girl, Interrupted (Ragazze interrotte, 1999), Kate and Leopold (id., 2001), Identity (Identità, 2003), Walk the line (2005), 3:10 to Youma (2005).

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