Morrissey - The Jewel In The Crown (DVD) Reviews
Description:Genre: Music DVDs / Theatrical Release: 2004 / Exempt / Actors: Morrissey ... / DVD released 2006-05-01 at Chrome ... more
Morrissey - The Jewel In The Crown (DVD) ... Dreams / Features of the DVD: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, PAL
Newest Review: ... terrible music over anyone who is trying to speak. The other major weakness the film has is that it just looks cheap and ... more
... like something that was thrown together very quickly to cash in on the success of You Are The Quarry. I remember a Morrissey documentary film on Channel 4 around this time narrated by Christopher Eccleston and that was vastly superior. Not just because it had access to Morrissey but simply because it was a more professional and entertaining film. The terrible cover picture for the DVD is symbolic of the slap dash aura that permeates the documentary at times. This one plays out mostly in a series of rooms and studios as...more
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Morrissey - The Jewel In The Crown (DVD): Viva Hate (1215 words)by - written on 05/05/12 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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Morrissey: The Jewel in the Crown is an 108 minute unauthorised documentary that charts the solo career and life and times of the pop icon from the break up of The Smiths in 1987 through to the release of You Are The Quarry in 2004 when Morrissey suddenly emerged from nowhere after years of deafening silence and had an unexpected renaissance of sorts. Because so much has happened to him since The Smiths and the fact that his career has been so up and down you would think that a fascinating documentary would be there for the taking but this is a very flat and uninspired film and not helped of course by the fact that Morrissey had absolutely nothing to do with it. He is ... Read the complete review
by - written on 20/08/09 (Very useful, 53 readings)
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The Jewel In The Crown is an unofficial DVD about the charasmatic singer, Morrissey. Morrissey's influence as an icon far exceeds the sales of his records, he is worshipped by his fans and it seems everyone has an opinion on him. This DVD tells the story of how Morrissey came to prominence with The Smiths and later into his solo career. Many people feature throughout the DVD making comments, such as Tony Wilson, Stephen Street and Vini Reilly. Strangely, this DVD doesn't feature Morrissey at all. His music is never on, non of his performances ever feature and he never appears in the DVD. This I found strange and somewhat annoying. Some pictures of him do ... Read the complete review
