Be Here to Love Me

Be Here To Love Me A Film About Townes Van Zandt is a 2004 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown which chronicles the often turbulent life of American singersongwriter Townes Van Zandt. The film includes interviews of Van Zandts immediate family and contemporaries such as Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Guy Clark along with ... home movies, old TV performances and, especially, early Seventies footage originally filmed by James Szalapski for his outlaw country documentary Heartworn Highways.

The film covers some of Van Zandts time spent in Houston, Texas, where he began his musical development, though according to the films DVD commentary, much was excluded from the early years, when he met many of his early influences and lifelong friends Lightnin Hopkins, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Micky Newbury, etc., and developed his musical skills in the citys folk and country scene in the late 60s and early 70s.Be Here to Love Me was first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in Toronto, Canada in 2004. It first showed in the United States at the Wisconsin Film Festival, then to a limited run of theaters in 2005. The film was released on DVD by Palm Pictures in 2006. ........

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