Blaze (2018)
A re-imagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
18 April 1989, Riverside, California, USA
30 July 1960, Houston, Texas, USA
6 November 1970, Austin, Texas, USA
October 10, 1968 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA
10 July 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 December 1967, Eugene, Oregon, USA
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
December 17, 2018
A quietly mournful and gently celebratory look at a boisterous, but underrated personality, Ethan Hawke's biopic Blaze is a humane approach to creating iconography organically and empathetically.
December 14, 2018
Hawke is more fascinated with passion than profile. And here, that's more than enough.
September 27, 2018
Hawke's fascinated by the tug of war between artistic freedom and domestic responsibility, and he's found clever ways to deal with that theme while zigzagging through Foley's life of music, alcohol, cocaine and women.
December 14, 2018
Beautifully shot, this low-key life story feels at times like you're flipping through an old album, crammed with artfully arranged memories and aphorisms.
December 26, 2018
A songwriter making his major acting debut, Dickey captures the burly, vulnerable quality of Foley's lyrics and vocal delivery, creating a palpable sense that the songs were excavated from the darkest corners of his soul.
December 26, 2018
Dickey looks like a big, shaggy dog with a wounded paw who's been left out in the rain overnight. And he's a real revelation.
October 09, 2018
Dickey would have made a strong impression regardless. But it turns out he can act, and sing, and has a genuine magnetism that combines with an endearing quality to create a highly appealing screen presence.
December 26, 2018
Even as a viewer not knowing much about Foley, watching Dickey makes one feel that you are watching the actual man -- he's that natural in the role.
December 11, 2018
People who knew him said he gave off so much menace, he scared bikers. This is a film about a big drunk lovable, doomed song-writing Teddy bear who happens to be named Blaze Foley.
September 28, 2018
Hawke tells Foley's story with heart and style, and that's going to make Blaze Foley even more of a legend, and deservedly so.
December 12, 2018
Blaze might be telling a story we've seen before, but it does so from an angle that offers a few surprises.
October 04, 2018
Hawke argues movingly that creative success has nothing to do with fame and everything to do with how an artist grows as a person and impacts the people around him.
