IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY (2025) Amy Berg / Cinematographers: Wolfgang Held, Jenna Rosher, Curren Sheldon, & Alex Takats / Editors: Stacy Goldate & Brian A. Kates / Featuring: Jeff Buckley, Mary Guibert, Ben Harper, Aimee Mann, Rebecca Moore, Joan Wasser / USA / Distributor: Magnolia Pictures / Not Rated / Length: 106 mins.
Jeff Buckley wanted to be a misfit when he grew up. It’s hard not to admire a musician whose credo was, “Every human being has music only they can make. It'll always keep on changing, it will always defy anything that tries to put people in a box.” It’s equally as difficult not to applaud a guy who ranked among his favorite pastimes finding Michael Bolton cassettes and covering the tabs with tape so he could record over them.
His mother, Mary Guibert, was 17 when she gave birth to him; dad, Tim Buckley, — an estimable musician in his own right, much to Jeff’s dismay — split before his son was born. They met once: Mary took their young son to see his father perform. Tim wrote his phone number and “Love You” on the inside of a matchbook, then died a few months later of a heroin overdose. When asked to perform one of his father's songs at the funeral, Jeff initially refused, but eventually softened. The one thing he inherited from his father? “People who remember my father.” On his 29th birthday he realized that he had outlived his old man. Sadly, not for long.
Buckley didn't want to be known as the guy who only did covers, yet Hallelujah, his most famous song, is a cover-of-a-cover. (Leonard Cohen wrote it, John Cale first covered it in 1991.) Many people who know Jeff Buckley only from Hallelujah believe the song to be a spiritual hymn to the Lord, not the orgasmic paean to the joys of sex that Buckley intended. It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an all-access pass to a man who wasn’t an easy fit, and damn proud of it; an artist who, in a wicked twist of fate, had immortality thrust upon him. ***
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IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY (2025) Amy Berg / Cinematographers: Wolfgang Held, Jenna Rosher, Curren Sheldon, & Alex Takats / Editors: Stacy Goldate & Brian A. Kates / Featuring: Jeff Buckley, Mary Guibert, Ben Harper, Aimee Mann, Rebecca Moore, Joan Wasser / USA / Distributor: Magnolia Pictures / Not Rated / Length: 106 mins.
Jeff Buckley wanted to be a misfit when he grew up. It’s hard not to admire a musician whose credo was, “Every human being has music only they can make. It'll always keep on changing, it will always defy anything that tries to put people in a box.” It’s equally as difficult not to applaud a guy who ranked among his favorite pastimes finding Michael Bolton cassettes and covering the tabs with tape so he could record over them.
His mother, Mary Guibert, was 17 when she gave birth to him; dad, Tim Buckley, — an estimable musician in his own right, much to Jeff’s dismay — split before his son was born. They met once: Mary took their young son to see his father perform. Tim wrote his phone number and “Love You” on the inside of a matchbook, then died a few months later of a heroin overdose. When asked to perform one of his father's songs at the funeral, Jeff initially refused, but eventually softened. The one thing he inherited from his father? “People who remember my father.” On his 29th birthday he realized that he had outlived his old man. Sadly, not for long.
Buckley didn't want to be known as the guy who only did covers, yet Hallelujah, his most famous song, is a cover-of-a-cover. (Leonard Cohen wrote it, John Cale first covered it in 1991.) Many people who know Jeff Buckley only from Hallelujah believe the song to be a spiritual hymn to the Lord, not the orgasmic paean to the joys of sex that Buckley intended. It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an all-access pass to a man who wasn’t an easy fit, and damn proud of it; an artist who, in a wicked twist of fate, had immortality thrust upon him. ***
Now playing in theaters, where movies belong!