Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (Blu-ray)

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 8, 2013
  • Originally Released: 2010
  • Label: Kino Lorber

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User Ratings: 632
Rating: 3.5/5 -- An affectionate tribute and a gift for fans who grew fond of his company on records or at concerts and who would like a little bit more.
New York Times
Apr 18, 2013
A portrait of a tough American musical spirit, fighting through until the end and taking energy and solace from the music he created. Full Review
Hollywood & Fine
Apr 15, 2013
Rating: 88/100 -- And of all the figures - Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, et al. - who smuggled those sepia-toned seeds into rock 'n' roll, Helm, was arguably the most authentic. Full Review
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Aug 17, 2013
Rating: 2/5 -- A missed opportunity to delve deeper and get a more intimate portrait of the man behind the drums. Full Review
Punch Drunk Critics
Aug 14, 2018
Despite his flashes of bitterness, the Helm captured here seems like a man at peace with where he ended up - however taxing the road that brought him, however many friends lost or discarded along the way. Full Review
NPR
Apr 17, 2013
Rating: 4/5 -- Director Jacob Hatley clearly earned the complete trust of Helm's inner circle, enough to capture the icon's crusty humor, singular talent and significant bravery in the face of his fate. Full Review
New York Daily News
Apr 18, 2013
Rating: 3/4 -- It's a sympathetic portrait of an artist whose heart lay more with new work than old glories, right up to the end. Full Review
New York Post
Apr 19, 2013

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Born in Arkansas in 1940, Levon Helm started playing music before anyone thought up the name rock & roll, and after taking up the drums, he teamed with Ronnie Hawkins, a fellow Arkansan who was becoming a popular rockabilly star in Canada. In time, Helm and his bandmates parted ways with Hawkins to go out on their own, and after a spell as Bob Dylan's backing group they became known as The Band, recording a handful of the most honored rock albums of the 1960s and '70s. When guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson decided to break up The Band in 1976, the group's final concert was a major musical event that spawned Martin Scorsese's acclaimed documentary THE LAST WALTZ. But Levon Helm wasn't done with music by a long shot, and in spite of three decades that would have tested any man's patience -- including troubles with drug addiction, unpaid record royalties, bankruptcy, legal skirmishes over the rights to his music, accidentally shooting himself in the leg, the death of two of his closest friends, and a battle with throat cancer -- in 2008 Helm had a banner year as he earned a Grammy nomination for his first studio album in years, DIRT FARMER, and he was given a lifetime achievement award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Filmmaker Jacob Hatley offers an intimate look at a legend of American music as he struggles to keep moving forward against long odds in the documentary AIN'T IN IT FOR MY HEALTH: A FILM ABOUT LEVON HELM, which was an official selection at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.

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