Trailer Link

Release Date:

September 27, 2013

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as “I’ll Take You There”, “Brown Sugar”, and “When a Man Loves a Woman”.”

Poster: C

Review: I hate to think this is going to be boilerplate design for music documentaries, but this is the second poster I can remember that placed a piece of musical paraphernalia on the ground next to a lightly-descript wall with manuscript writing. It’s not a suitable trend to be started.

Trailer: B

Review: The appearance of legendary artists makes this a bit more fascinating than your standard music documentaries, but the formula and format is entirely old-hat. There are only so many ways you can tweak a documentary style, but trailers have much more leniency in design. This one doesn’t reinvent the wheel.

Oscar Prospects:

There have been a ton of music documentaries in recent years and few of them have been successful with the Academy.

Revisions:

(September 22, 2013) Original