Ilove when a project has a title that seems just a little off but offers a purposeful piece of wordplay.
It doesn’t have to be distractingly askew.
Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher The Bottom Line Overlong and uneven, but filled with musical magic. Venue: Telluride Film Festival
Directors: Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine
1 hour 57 minutes
Take, for example, Everywhere Man : The Lives and Times of Peter Asher , the new documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine ( Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song ). It’s a title you could skim a dozen times without stopping and going, “Wait, isn’t the idiom ‘life and times’?”
It takes very little time into Geller and Goldfine’s slightly overstuffed and slightly imbalanced documentary to recognize what they’r