Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic While most contemporary music documentaries fall into the realm of self-produced hagiography, no one will be making that charge about “Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed,” a clear-eyes/hearts-full documentary coming from HBO Max documentary that had its world premiere at the Grammy Museum.
At a Q&A with Isbell and director Sam Jones following the screening of the film, which begins streaming April 7, moderator Colin Hanks, a big Isbell fan, asked the doc’s star: “What was it about this that made you go, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna do a doc,’ and really make yourself a little bit more raw than maybe you had even in your songs?” “It’s because I didn’t know what was about to happen,” responded Isbell. “The whole reason I did this was because I was not informed of the consequences of doing this.” He was half-joking. “I just told Sam before we walked over here: Nobody was gonna make a movie about me that was gonna be easy for me to watch.
That was not gonna happen. So I’m just glad he made a good one.” Talking with Variety before the film unspooled at the April 23 premiere, Isbell was also candid about the movie’s candor.
Asked about how it felt to look back now on some intimate events of the past that are covered in the film, Isbell said, “You know, I don’t love it.
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