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Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine.
Dec 4, 2020 · Billie: Directed by James Erskine. With Linda Lipnack Kuehl, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Syms, Tony Bennett. Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- James Erskine
- 2020-12-04
Dec 4, 2020 · “Billie” is steeped in that kind of melancholy. Not just in matters of the heart, but political and racial, too. The Federal Government’s narcotics bureau stalked the singer for over a decade and employed people in her inner-circle as informants.
Billie Holiday one of the most fascinating and tragic icons of American music, let alone jazz. As the film portrays, she is a singer who was trapped in a cycle of exploitation and abuse that fueled her ability as a performer, leading to a tragically early death.
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- Altitude Film Entertainment
- James Erskine
Sep 5, 2019 · They crack up!” That’s Tony Bennett, in voiceover, musing aloud about the fate of the subject of “Billie,” an absorbing new documentary about master jazz singer Billie Holiday that had its...
Dec 4, 2020 · Billie is the far and away the most definitive Billie Holiday biography ever put on screen, a film that celebrates her magic and examines the demons that haunted her, chemical and human.
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In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life.
