The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2008) Vikram Jayanti

Phil Spector is quite a character.  He's a weird and miscomprehended genius of music, nothing more interesting than that.  But this is a clear example that sometimes, a great character is not enough for a documentary to be good.



The documentary is too long and repetitive.  It's funny how Phil Spector mentions that Psycho is only good as it is an edit-movie, when this film isn't good due to lack of editing.  Vikram Jayanti should've edited at least half of it.  It would've been a great short-film.  I'm not sure if he insisted in making it this long in order to have enough time to play most of Spector's songs, from start to end, but he clearly didn't have enough material to keep it going for a 102 minutes.  There's a point where you actually get bored and have simply had enough of this sort of E True Hollywood Story he's presenting.  Unfortunately you can't simply change the channel.