Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (HBO) (1 Viewer)

Matt Hough · Apr 7, 2015

Did anyone else watch this mesmerizing two-part documentary on "The Voice"? Just like with Judy Garland: By Myself, this documentary was a warts-and-all presentation of a very eventful life crammed with music associated with Sinatra, vintage interviews with him as well as modern commentary by those who knew him. Four hours of material and not one second of it dull. Not as many movie clips as one might have imagined there would be, but otherwise, I had no complaints.

Robert Crawford · Apr 7, 2015

No, I forgot about it. I hope they show it again.

Ronald Epstein · Apr 7, 2015

Oh, HBO will repeat this over and over. Forgot to set up my Tivo for it. Going to do it now...

Matt Hough · Apr 7, 2015

If you have HBO On Demand, the two parts should be available there right now.

mattCR · Apr 7, 2015

I have it set to watch over the weekend. Looking forward to it!

Ken H · Apr 7, 2015

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/339897-sinatra-all-or-nothing-at-all-on-hbo/

Haven't had the chance to watch it yet.

Hollywoodaholic · Apr 7, 2015

It plays like a cultural and political history of the middle of the last century. But don't kid yourself about the warts - they were more like freckles compared to reality, because this was produced and sanctioned by his Frank Sinatra Enterprises.

Ken H · Apr 7, 2015

Hollywoodaholic said:
But don't kid yourself about the warts - they were more like freckles compared to reality, because this was produced and sanctioned by his Frank Sinatra Enterprises.

I'm confused.

This is from HBO:

SINATRA: ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL is an HBO Documentary Films presentation of a Jigsaw Production in association with Alcon Television Group and The Kennedy-Marshall Company; executive producers, Charles Pignone, Frank Marshall, Alex Gibney and Blair Foster; executive producers for Alcon Television, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Sharon Hall; producers, Jeff Pollack, Erin Edeiken and Sam Pollard; editors, Sam Pollard, Ben Sozanski and Anoosh Tertzakian.

Jigsaw is Alex Gibney, while Alcon, and Kennedy-Marshall, claim to be independent film production companies.

I could find no mention of any connection to Frank Sinatra Enterprises on any of the following web sites:

http://www.jigsawprods.com/alex-gibney/

http://www.alconent.com/about/about-alcon/

http://kennedymarshall.com/about/the-kennedymarshall-company/

I also searched online for Frank Sinatra Enterprises and could only find redirects to www.sinatra.com which has a one line reference (buried) about this HBO program, and could not find any mention on the Sinatra Family web site: http://sinatrafamily.com/news/index.php

But, at the end of the Part 1 credits it says "© Frank Sinatra Enterprises, LLC. All Rights Reserved"

?

Hollywoodaholic · Apr 8, 2015

Right, the documentary ended on that tell-tale credit, which is how I jumped to the completely sanctioned conclusion (and the cooperation of all living children through rights usage of their interviews). Plus the fact it was mostly a canonization.

Aaron Silverman · Apr 9, 2015

Are you implying that Ol' Blue Eyes was not a SAINT?!?!?!?!

Hollywoodaholic · Apr 9, 2015

He could've been the first Pope Francis.

Ken H · Apr 10, 2015

Finished watching both parts, and I was a little underwhelmed. Based on Gibney's pedigree I expected more. I didn't necessarily think it was a whitewashing job, as some parts weren't very complimentary to Sinatra at all.

I think the major problem is how the entire story is tied to the farewell concert. At many points it seems to disrupt or derail the narrative as opposed to facilitating the story.

All in all I'd give it a 7.5 on a 1-10 scale.

Matt Hough · Apr 11, 2015

On rewatching, I noticed that the involvement/engagement with Juliet Prowse whom he met on Can-Can was completely omitted. I wonder if there was some problem with getting clearances.

Ken H · Apr 17, 2015

Matt Hough said:
On rewatching, I noticed that the involvement/engagement with Juliet Prowse whom he met on Can-Can was completely omitted. I wonder if there was some problem with getting clearances.

Could be that, or Gibney just didn't think it merited inclusion?

If every starlet that Sinatra got involved with was highlighted, we'd have 'Trollops On Parade', not a bio! Sorry, couldn't help it.

Here's an interesting web site that has a list of women involved with Sinatra - http://dating.famousfix.com/tpx_3013/frank-sinatra/dating-history

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