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Jan 30, 2014 · Movies. Movie Reviews. Jobriath A.D.: Film Review. The would-be "American Bowie" gets his due in Kieran Turner's sympathetic doc. By THR Staff. January 30, 2014 2:53pm.
67% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 58% Audience Score 50+ Ratings A profile of Jobriath, perhaps the first openly gay rock star, shows his life and music during a career that ended in 1975. Thirty-five...
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Reviews. Accolades. See also. Notes. References. External links. Jobriath A.D. is a 2012 American biographical documentary film written, produced and directed by Kieran Turner. The documentary details the rise and fall of the first openly gay rock star Jobriath.
Jan 29, 2014 · Narrated by Henry Rollins, Jobriath A.D. focuses on its star’s intangible rise to self-delusional celebrity, his quick fall from grace, and subsequent failed attempts to reinvent himself as a clean-cut and less threatening Broadway singer. Sadly, the doc shows us very little of Jobriath’s talent even as talking heads exult him as a ...
There have been many reviews suggesting that homophobia was partly to blame, but the truth is, a certain David Bowie was the forerunner of this androgynous kind of performer. And the world loved it. Elektra records spent a fortune promoting Jobriath, but there was one problem: no one was interested.
May 1, 2014 · 1h 42m. By Daniel M. Gold. May 1, 2014. If Jobriath, a would-be star of glam-rock during the genre’s 1970s heyday, is recalled at all, it’s because of his monster billboard, which loomed over...
Jun 15, 2012 · 7 User reviews. 15 Critic reviews. 58 Metascore. Awards. 3 wins & 1 nomination. Videos 1. Trailer 2:29.