Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005)

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• Release Date: 2005-12-02 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Palm Pictures
• Film Genre(s): Documentary
• Country: United States
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The ultimate songwriter’s songwriter, Townes Van Zandt had a profound impact on generations of musicians from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones, yet he avoided the commercial success enjoyed by many of his own fans. Billy Joe Shaver calmly stated “As far as I was concerned, he was the best songwriter that ever lived. And that’s it. Lucinda Williams called him “Too Cool to be Forgotten.” And Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Emmylou Harris have had #1 hits with his songs. Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt provides an intimate portrait of the legendary artist’s haunting music and life. Although a native Texan, Van Zandt always viewed himself as a traveler. His father, a wealthy oil man, moved the family constantly — Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, among other places — which accounted for Townes’ ongoing sense of restlessness. But a more tragic influence on Towne’s music came later in his life. Van Zandt, labeled as a problem child from the get-go, was given shock therapy in his early 20’s after he fell backward from a four-story window “just to see what it felt like.” This treatment burned out all of his memories of childhood and made it difficult for him to connect to those around him for any length of time. Arguably it was this disconnect from the sources of his most deeply-held emotions that gave his songs their melancholy, redemptive power.

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