【导演】:Peter Sillen
【主演】: Jesse Bernstein/Susy Schnieder/Jeff Bernstein/Carol Saturensky-Young
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【制片地区/国家】:美国
【年份】:2010
【语言】:英语
【上映时间】: 2010-12-15
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【原名】:I Am Secretly an Important Man
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【评分】:豆瓣：0 ，IMDB：7.1
【IMDb链接】: tt1574600
在这部我在地下发光片中,An outsider artist, punk poet and troubled soul who was once proclaimed “The Godfather of Grunge,” Seattle’s Jesse Bernstein had the distinction of having opened for both Nirvana and William S. Burroughs. And, while we’re name-dropping alt-culture icons: he also once toured with almost-legendary psychedelic folksters The Holy Modal Rounders — and, as a teenaged runaway, caught a ride on Ken Kesey’s magic bus! This fascinating underground documentary from New York-based filmmaker Peter Sillen (co-director of Benjamin Smoke and cinematographer of Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy) draws on a truly surprising wealth of archival material to tell the story of a performer and writer (and, cementing his status as a grunge figurehead, Sub Pop Records recording artist) who lived and wrote about life on the fringes and called poetry his “job”; coping with the twin torments of substance abuse and mental illness were major occupations as well. Bernstein’s first chapbook was funded by a stripper; he occasionally performed with a live mouse in his mouth. He was voted “Seattle’s Best Local Poet” in a Seattle Weekly readers’ poll in 1989, two years before he succumbed to his considerable demons. “[A] fine documentary ... Sillen finds nobility in the poet’s ceaseless commitment to observation, self-examination, and what he called just plain ‘doing your job’” (Ken Marks, The New Yorker). Colour and B&W, Digibeta video. 87 mins.
'I Am Secretly an Important Man' is a portrait of writer and poet Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein), one of Seattle's most celebrated and troubled voices. His angry, surprisingly fresh, lyrical writings are about sensitive souls, drifters and drug addicts, people alienated by a society that refuses to understand them. Bernstein was an integral part of the legendary Seattle rock scene of the late 80's and early 90s, and in 1991 was dubbed the 'Godfather of Grunge' by the British magazine THE INDEPENDENT.
