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Watch: Blaze 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – Inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three different periods of time, braiding re-imagined versions of Blaze’s past, present and future. The different strands explore his love affair with Sybil Rosen; his last, dark night on earth; and the impact of his songs and his death had on his fans, friends, and foes. The braided storyline terminates in a bittersweet ending that acknowledges Blaze’s profound highs and lows, as well as the impressions he made on the people who shared his journey..
Plot: Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.
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	6.5/10 Votes: 3,332
	95% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 42 Popularity: 5.237 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Blaze of Legend
Greetings again from the darkness. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” “I don’t want to be a star, I wants to be a legend.” The first quote comes from THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE and the second is drawled by Blaze Foley as he snuggles with his muse and lover in the back of a pickup truck. We can imagine the first quote inspired many stories over the years by those who knew Blaze, and it might also have served as a driving force for writer/director Ethan Hawke as he crafted this graceful tribute to an underappreciated songwriter and his too short life.

Mr. Hawke is a 2-time Oscar nominee as an actor, and his best known previous turn as director was for CHELSEA WALLS (2001). He (a distant relative of Tennessee Williams) has also been twice Oscar nominated as a writer (BEFORE SUNSET, BEFORE MIDNIGHT), and his movies are often music related or influenced. His latest is a biopic of a mostly unrecognized country-folk artist, and Hawke collaborated with Sybil Rosen to adapt her memoir “Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley”. It’s Ms. Rosen who shared the bed of that pickup referenced in the first paragraph above.

Ben Dickey plays Blaze and Alia Shawkat plays Sybil. Not only does Dickey capture the spirit and sound of Foley’s music, but the scenes with Blaze and Sybil as a couple are some of the most touching and realistic relationship sequences we’ve seen on screen. We understand their connection … and their disconnection. It’s proof that two people can be both ‘made for each other’ and ‘wrong for each other’. Director Hawke utilizes different time periods, as well as a framing device in the form of a radio interview. None of this works in traditional biopic manner as the interview features the great troubadour and musical poet Townes Van Zandt (played exceptionally well by Charlie Sexton) recollecting the times (both good and bad) he spent with his friend Blaze. He’s joined by another Foley friend and collaborator, Zee (Josh Hamilton) as the two color in the blanks to ensure the legendary status desired by Blaze. The DJ is voiced by Ethan Hawke, who is only seen from behind.

In addition to the radio interview and the relationship with Sybil, we also have multiple scenes of Blaze’s final live show being recorded at the old Austin Outhouse. The nearly two hours of music and philosophizing were turned into a record release that remains (nearly 30 years later) a mesmerizing listen. These 3 very distinct pieces fit together to bring Blaze into focus as both a songwriter and troubled man – one who found himself in too many fights and, ultimately, on the wrong end of a gunshot in 1989.

Philosophy and homespun wisdom and catchphrases flow from Blaze during his songs and even when he’s just hanging with his buddies or Sybil. The real Sybil Rosen plays her own mother in a scene where Blaze meets the parents, and there is a touching moment in the film where Blaze plays for his estranged dad (a wonderful, albeit brief performance from Kris Kristofferson), the founder of The Singing Fuller Family where Blaze got his musical start. It’s these kind of touches that elevate the film into a must see whether you are familiar with Blaze Foley or not.

BLAZE FOLEY: DUCT TAPE MESSIAH is a 2011 documentary that would nicely compliment Mr. Hawke’s film, although this version contains much more humor – including cameos by Steve Zahn, Richard Linklater and Sam Rockwell as Zephyr Records executives. With Louis Black (founder of SXSW and a former film class TA of yours truly) as an Executive Producer, and songs by Blaze Foley and Townes Van Zandt, this little gem is likely to awaken viewers to a bygone era of music that tends to be remembered only for Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff and Merle.

“…only went crazy once, Blaze. Just once, but he stayed there.”
I haven’t exactly been living under a rock the past seven decades, but I’ve never heard of Blaze Foley. I was beginning to think this film was a fictional piece along the lines, say, of 1983’s “Eddie and the Cruisers” or 1984’s “This is Spinal Tap”. But sure enough, a quick Google search brought up the real Michael David Fuller, who went by the stage name Blaze Foley in honor of a favorite musician, Red Foley. Unfortunately, it turns out that the subject Foley fulfilled in a sense, how a disgruntled oil executive turned music producer frustratingly described him – “You’re the loser you always wanted to be”. Not that he was a bad guy per se, but Blaze had a difficult time containing his inner demons, becoming self destructive at times when he wasn’t even trying. The picture is liberally peppered with Foley’s dialog and lyrics, though it didn’t sound to me that he was as much a song writer as a stream of consciousness poet, somewhat out of time and place. A lot of it is downright alluring, and you have to wonder how such beauty came from the mind of a wandering hillbilly. You want to believe the man when he states – “I don’t want to be a star. I wants to be a legend”. But sadly, this film is going to bring him as close as he can get in memoriam. He probably deserves better, and maybe the picture will help bring his name recognition up a notch.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min)
Budget 1200000
Revenue 467306
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Music
Director Ethan Hawke
Writer Ethan Hawke, Sybil Rosen
Actors Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 12 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera RED Epic Dragon 6K
Laboratory Black Lab
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format DCP