Mystify makes you feel that closeness throughout, even as the question of Hutchence’s death looms large. Instead, Lowenstein dug into his attic full of backstage and on-the-road footage that he'd accumulated of the band over the years. Lowenstein had initially hoped to make a biopic about the singer, but he couldn’t find anyone he thought suitable for the lead role.
Richard Lowenstein directed nearly twenty music videos for Michael Hutchence’s band INXS before the lead singer's untimely death in 1997, and presumably because of that long-standing relationship, Mystify feels at times incredibly intimate, sometimes overwhelmingly so. How to watch: (Opens in a new tab) Long Strange Trip (Opens in a new tab) is now streaming on Prime Video. Filmed nearly twenty years after Jerry Garcia’s passing, the legendary hobbit-like front man is by death’s necessity only seen here via archival footage, but the rest of the psychedelic gang shows up in new interviews to jam and jam on, man.
After premiering in its entirety at Sundance and doing a brief stint in theaters, the documentary was scooped up by Amazon and split into six episodes so you can enjoy this Trip in smaller doses in the privacy of your own home. Credit: Todd Williamson/January Images/ShutterstockĮxecutive produced by Martin Scorsese, Amir Bar-Lev’s 2017 documentary on the Grateful Dead clearly took its cues from the infamously long-running traveling jam band it set out to document, with a final runtime of nearly four hours.
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