Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
This poignant, personal depiction of music great Levon Helm begins with the scene of a tour bus revving up its engine in the silence of an empty parking lot. Helm, a founding member of The Band, is in the midst of recording his first studio album in 25 years when Jacob Hatley's intimate documentary shows him at home in Woodstock. Although he's the ultimate survivor, he's conquered drug addiction, bankruptcy, the painful breakup of The Band, and even throat cancer — yet, as the rueful title implies, he wasn't in it for his own health in the first place.
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This poignant, personal depiction of music great Levon Helm begins with the scene of a tour bus revving up its engine in the silence of an empty parking lot. Helm, a founding member of The Band, is in the midst of recording his first studio album in 25 years when Jacob Hatley's intimate documentary shows him at home in Woodstock. Although he's the ultimate survivor, he's conquered drug addiction, bankruptcy, the painful breakup of The Band, and even throat cancer — yet, as the rueful title implies, he wasn't in it for his own health in the first place.
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