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Best Prince documentary? Does anyone have a favorite documentary on Prince that you'd recommend I show my fiance? I want to watch one that I haven't seen and I'd like to watch it with him to help him further understand my love for P.
Youtube, etc recs are welcome. Thanks guys!
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Maybe "Prince unauthorized" or "Slave Trade" the latter is about 3 hours long though | |
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Slave Trade is the best one out of all of the other documentaries (except omnibus) i've seen yet. [Edited 8/21/16 19:08pm] | |
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Haven't seen Slave Trade--I'll have to check it out. I was going to recommend the Omnibus doc. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Is this anywhere online for download? | |
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tigerlilyluv said:
Is this anywhere online for download? Both are on amazon | |
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Slave Trade of course! By far the best Prince documentary I have watched. A bit lengthy but its very detailed, unbiased. I reccomend every Prince fan to watch this. It was On Demand under Axis TV for about 2months after he passed. i think i want ya | |
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haven't seen too many great ones, or rather, ones that i would put in the category of some of the books on him. I guess the BBC one was the best, like i said though, haven't been that many. The one interviewing pepe willie and chazz was ok, if low budget. I don't think he's had a proper one done on him yet. | |
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If he is new to Prince and not a fan as such then omnibus is probably the best all rounder. It's short enough and informative to probably hold his interest. Slave Trade is good but it's quite specific to a certain point in Prince's career, that and the sheer length of the thing will probably bore the tits off your fiance. [Edited 8/22/16 6:29am] | |
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The BBC one was the best. I loved all the candid shots of watching him work...especially during such a creative period in the 1980s. | |
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There isn't one yet. It remains to be filmed. And with more info being released now after his passing, it's too early to start filming one. | |
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Ok thanks | |
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ya, none on the par with other docus on the beatles, elvis, chuck berry maybe they'll come. | |
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Slave Trade was excellent. Really got into the logistics of the WB deal and what all happened between D&P and Emancipation and good insight into his "comeback" era starting with Musicology. Loved it. | |
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As a Prince fan, you kinda have to see them all for yourself. But none are very good as dcumentaries. Just fan fodder. Worth it for anyone with any interest in Prince, but they are as deep as anything on Entertainment Tonight, with realy low production values. A proper Prince doc would have to cover a lot of ground. Good docs are usually labors of love, because there really is no money in making them. The ones made so far, were done on the cheap but are hardly labors of love. This goes doubly for all the early ones that were churned out to merely quickly cash in on him. | |
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also, now that he's gone, maybe the people who were reluctant to either come forward or to tell as much as they otherwise would can talk. I would watch any Prince docu but one problem I've seen is that, at least in the bbc docu, the interviewees seemed to be a bit too close to Prince and didn't have any objectivity. Also, I bought a great dvd of Prince interviews, listening to Prince can really strain your patience because it's always an odd mix of brilliant insight, wierd crypticness/mystery making and humility. Sometimes, even now, I find it hard to watch his interviews because he was stuck in that mode for so many years. | |
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I would like to see in the future Spike Lee do some doco on Prince's albums like 1999, Purple Rain etc just like the ones he has been doing on MJ. That would be amazing Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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Goddess4Real said: I would like to see in the future Spike Lee do some doco on Prince's albums like 1999, Purple Rain etc just like the ones he has been doing on MJ. That would be amazing That would be awesome! | |
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Have you seen the BBC Omnibus documentary? | |
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Damn wish one of you guys would have posted it:)..I wouild have liked to have tuned in
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TheDigitalGardener said:
Have you seen the BBC Omnibus documentary? Is that the one that starts on a freeway heading to Paisley Park and seems to be from the the lovesexy tour era? | |
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