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Director: Don Argott, Demian Fenton
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From Time Out Online
A promising career that never reached fruition. A supposedly satanic singer who’s really a soft-hearted sap. A chance to rewrite history and get the old band back together… This portrait of largely forgotten ’70s doom-metal pioneers Pentagram and their crack-addicted lead singer Bobby Liebling may sound like another fist-pumping ‘Anvil!’-style rags-to-royalty rockumentary, but ‘Last Days Here’ is an altogether more sombre affair. Liebling is more Roky Erikson than Ozzy Osbourne, a man for whom the excesses of the rock world have led not to bat-biting antics but to personality crises and mental instability – not to mention horrific skin diseases and a debilitating crack habit. As expected, the film does depict his triumphant rise from the ashes, but it’s a painful, traumatic, albeit deeply inspiring slog rather than a joyous rediscovery.Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
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Posted on Oct 19 2011 22:40
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! i expected something much less. I didn't think I'd like it so much. It was inspiring to my own life on a few levels. I loved the two main characters and how they worked off each other.
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