The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine.
Dec 4, 2020 · Billie: Directed by James Erskine. With Linda Lipnack Kuehl, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Syms, Tony Bennett. Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- James Erskine
- 2020-12-04
Sep 8, 2020 · She started a notable rebellion singing “Strange Fruit” which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, Billie is ...
- 2 min
- 288.5K
- Greenwich Entertainment
Dec 4, 2020 · In “Billie,” Erskine adroitly paints an unvarnished portrait of a generational talent, the ethics and politics of the generation she entertained, and the journalist transfixed by the singer’s crooning spell. Erskine lends new potency to the woman known as Lady Day by virtue of her performances.
Sep 5, 2019 · A newly unvaulted treasure trove of old interviews about Billie Holiday forms the basis of a transfixing documentary about the jazz singer.
Synopsis. She sang the truth, she paid the price. ‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday.
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Dec 3, 2020 · “Billie” has one of the most unusual and (at least in its initial presentation) disturbing hooks for a documentary in some time.
