Searching for Sugar Man

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Michael Alexander

#15
November 01, 2012, 11:29:11 AM
The guestbook makes and interesting read...

LINK: http://sugarman.org/forum.html
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Pete (RIP)

#16
November 07, 2012, 05:10:57 PM
You can now pre-order the DVD for Searching For Sugarman on Amazon - not sure of release date but it's obviously close at hand.  Tried to get concert tickets last week whilst in Cape Town but there wasn't even a single seat open at any of the shows.  Just shows what a movie can do for one's career.  He's been here before (a few years ago) and played small venues on a very low-key tour.  Glad to see that his fortunes have changed - in more ways than one!!

Michael Alexander

#17
November 07, 2012, 06:02:18 PM
I already did my pre order on Kalahari , both the dvd and the Cd.... felt that it was only right to purchase the man's cd after listening to pirated versions of it all these years.... If you have enjoyed his music, and even if you have an mp3 stashed on your pc.... make a plane and support this man......

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Mike Stenson (RIP)

#18
November 23, 2012, 12:25:01 PM
"Computers are like air conditioning, Nether work when you open windows !"

Michael Alexander

#19
November 23, 2012, 12:52:40 PM
Stennie, this is the one that you were on about.... what year was this one done? I have just taken it down....

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Mike Stenson (RIP)

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November 23, 2012, 01:10:25 PM Last Edit: November 23, 2012, 01:26:40 PM by Mike Stenson
The movie seems to have been uploaded in 2006..... the last footage shows his 1998 tour so not to sure.
Maybe it was modified later.
Its a bit patchy, maybe some parts missing.... looked much better when it was shown on DSTV..  sorriso2
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Mike Stenson (RIP)

#21
November 23, 2012, 01:37:21 PM Last Edit: November 23, 2012, 03:26:01 PM by Mike Stenson
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Michael Alexander

#22
November 23, 2012, 01:46:34 PM Last Edit: November 23, 2012, 01:58:17 PM by Michael Alexander
The sound is not so clear on the youtube video, think I will ask DSTV to do a repeat.... seeing that they are so good at that....
:wow1:

Just emailed the repeat kings.....
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Mike Stenson (RIP)

#23
November 23, 2012, 03:30:47 PM Last Edit: November 23, 2012, 04:05:38 PM by Mike Stenson
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Michael Alexander

#24
November 25, 2012, 06:43:23 AM
I have yet to see the movie Searching for Sugarman. But after watching the above youtube clip, I wonder if the movie, Searching for Sugarman was not copied from the movie Searching for Jesus?

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Pete (RIP)

#25
November 25, 2012, 05:04:30 PM
As I recall from seeing Searching for Jesus, it was a "mini movie" which was locally produced (on a limited budget) and flighted a number of times by M-Net.  The guys who were central to the actual search for, and finding of, Jesus were involved so there is commonality between the two productions.  The earlier version was probably something of a prototype for the evential movie.     

toonfandangl

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December 14, 2012, 09:28:10 AM
Sixto Díaz Rodríguez I was listening to an American 60 minuets pod cast and this gentleman's name came up and although he was not a hit in America seemingly he was well known in South Africa.  The thing that caught my attention was he was born in Detroit in 1942 and I had been talking to my brother on Skype he lives in Detroit, and new nothing about him. So the question is did anyone know  his songs or about him there in SA......................................Obviously you have heard of him  New-year3


Sugarman.org is the official Rodriguez website.

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Michael Alexander

#27
February 25, 2013, 11:21:23 AM
Searching for Sugar Man, about a singer whose musical star faded without a trace until he was rediscovered in South Africa, won the best documentary feature Oscar on Sunday.
The film tells the story of Sixto Rodriguez, who made two albums in the early 1970s but then quit music - and who knows nothing about his fame on another continent.
The documentary was made by first-time director Malik Bendjelloul, who first discovered Rodriguez while travelling for six months in Africa in 2006, and was fascinated by his story.
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The award was accepted by Bendjelloul and producer Simon Chinn, who explained why Rodriguez did not attend the Oscars show at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
"He didn't want to take any of the credit himself. That just about says everything about that man and his story that you want to know," Chinn said.
"He doesn't see it as his film. He's genuinely a humble man," he added.
Bendjelloul said he learned that Rodriguez was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1942, but his musical career ended almost before it began, while all other stars around him were making musical history in Motown.
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