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Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

Anchored by an incisive interview with its then 72-year-old subject, Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got looks back on the five-decade career of "King of the Clarinet” Artie Shaw (1910-2004), one of the most popular stars of the 1930s and '40s Swing era.

4K picture restoration by Patrick Duchesne, Frank Biasi, and Jim Fleming at Picture Shop (Toronto). Sound restoration by Daniel Pellerin. 4K and sound restoration generously donated by Donald Hicks (coordinated by Bradly Torreano) and Telefilm Canada, in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival®.

directed by: Brigitte Berman
starring: Artie Shaw, Helen Forrest, Mel Tormé, Evelyn Keyes
1985 / 115 min / 16:9/1.29:1 / English Mono

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Region A Blu-ray
Audio Commentary with director Brigitte Berman
English subtitles

Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 15 reviews.

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Essential viewing for jazz fans...

"If Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got was only a hagiographic clip show extolling the virtues of the title clarinetist, it would still be worthwhile. Shaw is one of the titans in his field; his Big Band efforts are still as vital and engaging as they were almost 100 years ago. However, filmmaker Brigitte Berman structures her documentary around a then-new interview with Shaw, and...well, he's a far pricklier and more interesting subject than you might suspect. A truly great portrait of a difficult man who's also a great musician."

— Joshua K. (5/5)

Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got

"I found the documentary interesting. Artie Shaw seemed to be a talented musician and brilliant guy. However the commentary by the director reveals that he was trouble to deal with after the movie's release which soured my feelings about the movie. The artwork is very nice on the slipcover."

— Travis H. (3/5)

Great documentary

"A great documentary about a good musician and a fascinating person. Not a film I’d typically associate with VS - like, at all. But I applaud them for giving this film some recognition."

— Travis R. (5/5)

Brilliant documentary

"Love the artwork on this release. Oscar winner and one I’d never seen before. Fantastic musical accompaniment"

— Billy-Jack D. (5/5)

Artie Shaw

"Nice release"

— Aaron P. (4/5)

Really fascinating imperfect documentary on a unique American artist

"The refreshing aspect of this documentary about the innovative Clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw is how the director doesn't try to steer him in any direction in particular or to make him look or sound like he has finesse. That isn't Artie Shaw, certainly at this later stage of his life, and director Brigitte Berman, armed with a cornucopia of archival images and footage from the period and throughout his career, shows him as craggy and opinionated as he was then. In truth, a lot of what he says makes sense, even when he sounds to be a little insulting (ie the highlight or one of them at least is his episode circa 1939 where he called teens who did the Jitterbug "morons" - he had a pretty good reason in context, but it would have been hard to communicate that in a headline). There is some heady and impressive points of history as well to take in, like during the second World War when Shaw and his band played for one of the great warships, but that isn't the main draw: what hooks us in is that this is about the needs and desires of an artist versus commercial expectations, and how that can lead to constant anxiety. I do wonder if there were points Berman did steer the conversation or answers and we didn't see it so much, but I doubt it. The presentation via the narration is a little dry, and it may cover some parts I personally wanted to know more about (ie his marriage to Lana Turner seems to be hand-waved away, not to mention Ava Gardner), but that is my only main knock against it (that and perhaps those bits where he just sits listening to his own music doesn't add as much as Berman thinks). This is a fascinating capital-C Character of the world of music and the 20th century American imagination; despite all of his existential troubles, Shaw's candid admissions and how often his ornery opinions mesh with a plain spoken sense of his life and career and collaborators (and even his psychotherapist) is involving and you want to keep hearing him talk."

— JACK C. (4/5)

A Mother!

"Artie Shaw was one of those Mothers, He had licorice Stick all figured out. A wonderful portarit and interesting to get to know more about the man. Met some great players that all said Artie was the one made them wanna play. Highly Recommended"

— Hansi L. (5/5)

Artiest Shaw: Time is All You've Got

"Revealing documentary about the clarinetist featuring an extensive interview with the man himself and the people who new him best. Highly recommended for fans of jazz and the big band era."

— Rebecca W. (5/5)

Solid release across the board

"This is a good release of a rather unimpressive “4K restoration” due to the large amount of archival footage within it. The supplements are appealing and the slip case artwork looks beautiful."

— Nicolas K. (4/5)

Classic award-winning documentary

"Great autobiography w/ Artie Shaw about his many wives & musical self-inventions through the decades-I felt like I really knew him after viewing this!"

— Lance P. (5/5)