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Article: `The Devil and Daniel Johnston'.(Movie review)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2006
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Byline: Dan DeLuca
If an eccentric artist makes difficult music, behaves strangely, and shows signs of mental illness, eventually someone's going to call him a genius.
The G-word gets bandied about quite a bit in "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," Jeff Feuerzeig's film about the revered manic-depressive songwriter who fits the bill to a T.
This is a documentary about a guitar-wielding visionary. Raised in a Christian home, Johnston gained acceptance in the indie-rock world despite an unfashionable predilection for singing about Jesus.
He sings with a childlike earnestness, a visual as well as musical artist who can count dead rock stars ...