All I Can Say

Name: All I Can Say
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: June 26, 2020
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Brad Smith, Christopher Thorn, Glen Graham, Lisa Sinha, Rogers Stevens

2020

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Oscilloscope | Release Date (Streaming): June 26, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Brad Smith, Christopher Thorn, Glen Graham, Lisa Sinha, Rogers Stevens, Shannon Hoon

Summary: Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself from 1990-95 with a Hi8 video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon
meticulously documented his life – his family, his creativeShannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself from 1990-95 with a Hi8 video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon
meticulously documented his life – his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame and his struggle with addiction. He filmed his daughter’s birth, and archived the politics and culture of the 90’s, an era right before the internet changed the world. Created with his own footage, voice and music, this intimate autobiography is a prescient exploration of experience and memory in the age of video. It is also Shannon Hoon’s last work, completed 23 years after his death.… Expand

Director: Colleen Hennessy and Danny Clinch and Shannon Hoon and Taryn Gould

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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NME Mark Beaumont

Apr 8, 2022

If we’re to understand Hoon’s life through his footage, it’s as a victim of a lifestyle that amplifies not just the sounds in your head but the problems at your core. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Apr 7, 2022

It’s a quizzical time capsule of pre-internet fame from the perspective of a troubled but capable young man who knew his way around a camera. Read full review

Tara Brady

Apr 8, 2022

Directors Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould, and Colleen Hennessy have sifted through hundreds of hours of footage to fashion something that allows for a sense of the person behind the rock casualty. To this end, they do a splendid job. Read full review

Stephen Whitty

Jun 25, 2020

In a way, the film is its own genre – the found-footage documentary. There are no interviews with other people, no self-described experts. Just Hoon, who – adding to the film’s melancholy sense of waste – comes across as an unspoiled, charismatic and mostly amiable young man. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Jul 2, 2020

That Hoon lived such a prototypically rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, while simultaneously commenting on it — he notes his first broken hotel room mirror — is fascinating. And heartbreaking. Read full review

Wes Greene

Jun 25, 2020

The film refuses to shy away from the unvarnished honesty of Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon during his brief moment of fame. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Jun 26, 2020

All I Can Say feels much longer than it actually is. Hoon struggled with addiction. He was arrested many times. It's a cautionary tale but one we've heard so many times before. Fans of Hoon will thrill to all of this footage. For others, it'll be a pretty tough haul. Read full review

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