Today Roky is actually on tour again, with a number of 2007 musical festival appearances including Coachella -- a development at least worthy of an afterword.
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08/30/07
You're Gonna Miss Me - A Film About Roky Erickson (2007)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 14 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis: Outside Austin, Texas, a 53-year-old man sits in an apartment with four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and a Casio electric piano playing all at the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth, his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock, and he has a notarized document on his... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Roky Erickson
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1 - 18 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Like any good documentary, this one releases information slowly and sometimes with startling abruptness.
08/24/07
Like Crumb or The Devil and Daniel Johnston, it's remarkably close-up moviemaking, with family secrets laid bare for all the world to see.
06/29/07
There's an undeniable fascination to watching the extensive footage of Erickson, whose yowling, manic vocals on display in the extensive archival performance footage contrasts dramatically with scenes of him in more recent times.
06/20/07
Top Critic
The film chronicles [Roky's brother] Sumner's quest - and [Roky's mother] Evelyn's resistance, and Roky's oblivious disconnection - in scenes of remarkable and distressing intimacy. There are also several clips of rare footage from the Elevators days that
06/18/07
Powerful drama about a legendary rock musician's battle with schizophrenia and a chance at a new life.
06/09/07
One senses that this profile has been made by a fan who assumes we’ll supply the pathos ourselves. And drug casualties are surely upsetting. But how can we miss someone we never really get to know?
06/09/07
Another dysfunctional American family gets its documentary close-up in the sad but involving You're Gonna Miss Me, the story of legendary music pioneer Roger "Roky" Erickson.
06/08/07
Keven McAlester's superb documentary about Texas singer-songwriter Roky Erickson scratches the surface of an artist's life only to find a welter of insanity, secrets and family dysfunction.
06/08/07
You’re Gonna Miss Me follows Roky Erickson, the lead singer of the 13th Floor Elevators and maybe the most influential 1960s pop star that most folks haven’t heard of.
06/08/07
Top Critic
A sensitive case-study of a promising artist who fell afoul of the system but still managed, with the help of family, to reassemble his shattered life.
06/07/07
Director Keven McAlester thinks he's making Crumb, but he doesn't give you enough of [Roky] Erickson in his glory. You're Gonna Miss Me has the taint of exploitation.
06/06/07
With battered archival footage and celebrity worship, [director] McAlester skimps on perspective and complexity.
06/06/07
You’re Gonna Miss Me is still a great meld of rock history, the sociological and familial impacts of mental disability and some courtroom intrigue.
03/04/07
McAlester documents Erickson’s musical rise and unfortunate decline into a mental illness he still struggles with, unleashing archival performances and home videos in this documentary film.
03/04/07
The movie does an exceptional job of placing Erickson in the context of the many forces that molded his peculiar genius.
12/30/06
It's gripping stuff to watch and, quite frankly, the stuff that great documentaries are made of.
12/30/06
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