The world hardly needs a feature documentary to establish that blue jeans are a modern icon. But fashion buffs and pop culture aficionados with a couple of hours to kill could do worse than check in with Blue Gold: American Jeans, an aesthetically uninspired but informative primer on the path this wardrobe staple has taken from the Old West to haute couture.
Narrated by Edward Burns (who reads an awfully full-of-itself script by first-time director Christian D. Bruun and co-writer John Marks), the doc initially promises to zero in on the obsessives who prize antique, made-in-America dungarees, sometimes paying thousands...
Narrated by Edward Burns (who reads an awfully full-of-itself script by first-time director Christian D. Bruun and co-writer John Marks), the doc initially promises to zero in on the obsessives who prize antique, made-in-America dungarees, sometimes paying thousands...
- 4/7/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s not easy to be a rock star and achieve the perfectly lived-in look to your jeans, as director Christian D. Bruun discovered making his new documentary “Blue Gold: American Jeans.” Take punk icon Iggy Pop, one of the figures who pops up in Bruun’s social history of denim jeans, which arrives on VOD and DVD on April 4. “He buys a pair of Levi’s jeans at the beginning of the summer and wears that every single day until the end of the summer and never washes them,” rock biographer Anthony Bozza tells the filmmakers. “Sometime about July he said they.
- 4/3/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Jeans are a timeless wardrobe staple that have been around since 1871, when tailor Jacob W. Davis of Reno, Nevada invented them in partnership with Levi Strauss & Co. Today, Americans spend more than $450 million on jeans every year. The new documentary “Blue Gold: American Jeans” focuses on the phenomenon of the most popular item of clothing of all time.
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Directed by Christian D. Bruun and narrated by Edward Burns, “Blue Gold” tells the story of jeans, their expansion across the world and the cultural impact they’ve had on rock & roll and hip hop. The documentary features interviews with fashion designers Tommy Hilfiger and Isaac Mizrahi, investor Daymond John (“Shark Tank”), singers Daryl Hall and Judy Collins, The Ramones drummer Marky Ramone and the founder of Diesel, Adriano Goldschmied. The film also...
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Directed by Christian D. Bruun and narrated by Edward Burns, “Blue Gold” tells the story of jeans, their expansion across the world and the cultural impact they’ve had on rock & roll and hip hop. The documentary features interviews with fashion designers Tommy Hilfiger and Isaac Mizrahi, investor Daymond John (“Shark Tank”), singers Daryl Hall and Judy Collins, The Ramones drummer Marky Ramone and the founder of Diesel, Adriano Goldschmied. The film also...
- 3/1/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
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