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Be Here to Love Me (2004)

Be Here to Love Me poster
Directed by
Margaret Brown
Genre
documentary film, musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt's life and career. It uses interviews with his family and fellow musicians along with home movies and old performances to tell his story.

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What happens

Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt is a 2004 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown which chronicles the often turbulent life of American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The film includes interviews of Van Zandt's immediate family and contemporaries such as Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Guy Clark along with "home movies, old TV performances and, especially, mid-Seventies footage originally filmed by James Szalapski for his outlaw country documentary Heartworn Highways." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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