Danny Says

  • 2016


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Positive Reviews 19
Negative reviews 1
Average Rating 3.5/5
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3.5
The stories wouldnt be half as fun if Fields werent so refreshingly cynical and candid. Av Club
2.5
That part of the equation may not be more important in the grand scheme of things, but it would have made for a much better movie. Indie Wire
3.5
Theres no precise word in the music biz for what Danny Fields does or did (as the film concludes its look at his amazing career in 1978). Austin Chronicle
4.0
This solid doc explores the life and legacy of rock promoter and all round hellraiser Danny Fields Danny Fields never played a note, but its hard to i .. Time Out
2.9
The closest Fields comes to letting us in on a thornier sense of his inner life happens towards the end of the film, when he admits feeling some regre .. Paste Magazine
2.5
Unfortunately, the animated sequences are often even cruder than the interview footage. Rogerebert
3.0
There are a lot of those kinds of infantile reminiscences in director Brendan Tollers documentary Danny Says, but its principal figure has an interest .. Village Voice
3.1
A hagiography that makes you feel a lot was left unsaid, that Danny Fields was everything he says he was and more, and just possibly, less. Rogers Movie Nation
3.2
But his record of those revolutionary days in the streets of America and in the music business, are worth taking in if youre a young or old rock fan. Sover
3.5
Some people didnt like that kind of avant garde music, but I did.Lots of great music and memories in this movie. Lariat
4.0
Review Our Score by Jamie Healy Legendary music industry mover n shaker Danny Fields tells his star studded life story in this candid documentary that .. Radio Times
4.0
Obviously a huge labor of love for director Brendan Toller, this documentary portrait of an echt Noo Yawk character brings alive the heady days of a h .. Film Journal
3.0
Danny Fields is one of those mysterious figures in the music industry you often see in black and white band photographs grinning away with his arms ar .. The Guardian
2.0
Whats missing is a sense of Fields inner life.He talks about sex a lot, but never mentions love. Npr
4.5
If you like biographies about interesting people, watch this documentary. Film Inquiry
5.0
Director Brendan Toller uses archive footage and droll animation that keep the stories revelatory and entertaining. Sf Gate
3.1
This is a modest portrait of an influential man, allowing Fields to intimately speak in long stretches that showcase his effortlessly casual nature an .. Slant Magazine
2.5
To hear it from the new documentary Danny Says, Danny Fields had a hand in the breakup of the Beatles and the discovery of the Ramones. The New York Times
3.5
But regret about money is clearly not the source of the existential despair we start to hear about toward the films end, and Toller isnt probing enoug .. Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Brendan Tollers superb documentary Danny Says is partly about the searing, serrated rock n roll that surged underneath mainstream American pop in the .. Los Angeles Times
4.0
Several lively animated sequences in different styles further diversify package. Variety
2.5
The delightfully rudimentary animated segments provide the documentary with enough visual appeal to keep it interesting. The Play List
4.0
As much as the anecdotal accounts are fascinating, the viewing would have benefited from tighter editing.The continuity is paradoxically in the fragme .. Under The Radar Mag
3.0
A feature at last weekends Art House Theater Day for some reason, Brendan Tollers Danny Says is a meh documentary about a so so person who lived throu .. Sf Weekly



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