2012 · drama · music
Not Fade Away
Directed by David Chase1h 52m2012
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Our read: Not Fade Away (2012) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
Watching Not Fade Away tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Not Fade Away feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want to be gripped by 1960s New Jersey garage band dreams and friendship.”
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