Bay Street Theater

Mon, 12/9, 4:00pm, 95 min
DIRECTOR: A.J. Eaton

PRODUCERS: Cameron Crowe, Michele Farinola, Greg Mariotti
EDITORS: Elisa Bonora, Veronica Pinkham
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Ian Coad, Edd Lukas

David Crosby of the famed music groups Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Byrds is a complicated figure--both charming and boorish, arrogant and narcissistic. A.J. Eaton’s film gives us a man who, in his late 70s, is reflective enough to be his own harshest critic. He honestly admits that not one musician he has played with during his long career will even speak to him. The film is built on a series of brutally honest interviews, some conducted by Eaton, others by producer Cameron Crowe, who was 16 when he first interviewed Crosby for Rolling Stone and has built a bond with the musician based on trust over the ensuing years.

A.J. Eaton comes from a musical family. He is the son of singer-songwriter Steve Eaton and as a child watched his dad work in his recording studio, often composing songs for films. His brother Marcus became a guitarist, but A.J. was more intrigued by the process of filmmaking. “Music and movies together are in my DNA,” says A.J.