BRILLIANT 2023 short film on Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison & Richard Brautigan in Key West in the 1970s

[highplainsdem]

It was uploaded to YouTube several months ago, and I ran across it last night while trying to find the complete 18-minute version of a promo film shot in Key West for Jimmy's 1974 album. Didn't find that, as I mentioned in Music Appreciation - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034143541 - but I did run across this 35- minute gem, which I just discovered littlemissmartypants had posted an OP in Editorials & Other Articles about in 2023 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016362323 - after Variety did an article on the film's premiere at the Telluride film festival.

Only the trailer was available online then, and it's in her post.

But the complete film is below, and it's a wonderful look back at what Variety called "the wild literary scene of 1970s Key West" with "a loose collective of wild but serious writers in Key West that also included men of letters like Jim Harrison, Richard Brautigan and Russell Chatham."

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/jimmy-buffett-tom-mcguane-key-west-film-all-that-is-sacred-trailer-tellluride-1235710145/

“I hadn’t understood how powerful it was going be,” says McGuane. “We’ve shown it to a lot of people — we’ve just shown it to Tom and Meredith Brokaw — and I mean, everybody that sees it seems to burst into tears. It’s just a strong little movie and I think Scott did a great job of it.”

And yes, it brought me to tears, too. Wonderful old photos and film from the 1970s (some from that 1974 promo film for Jimmy that I'd been looking for) along with narration in the 2020s, mostly by Buffett, McGuane and the great Carl Hiaasen, one of my favorite writers through not a part of that Key West scene (too young, though he'd've probably fit in).

This is VERY watchable.

[riverbendviewgal]

1. That was cool.

It was so nice seeing a young Jimmy Buffet and Key West in the 70s. I lived in the Keys in 1968 and 1969. Loved it.

Jimmy buffet became a favorite of ours in the 80s.
Love his music.
I went back to key west in 1986 and 2012. It changed so much. Not that laid back.

Thanks for stirring up memories.

[highplainsdem]

2. You're welcome! I'm so glad you liked that...and that you were able to experience the Keys back then.