The One Man Beatles

This documentary is solid, occasionally moving and well shot. And gives honor to a musician who deserves that. The film is simple and essential, without useless sentimentalism nor any big ideas excluding the subject itself, but does its work in an interesting and linear way. It could hopefully recreates attention about Rhodes who is still a potential cult hit maker, so let's wait for the second chapter. The director is young and shows a mastery which lacks in many more experienced directors. It's not easy to see good quality documentaries from Italian directors. Really cool film for everybody, it's a story about a human being, but unmissable for pop-rock fans.

I have seen The One Man Beatles four times. The first time I saw it , it was in Italian with English sub titles! Each time I view this documentary it gets better!!! The documentary is about Emitt Rhodes, of whom I was a fan of in my early teen years and still today!!! This film is a delightful story of a very successful musician who just mysteriously dropped out of the public's eye for over 35 years!! This documentary is very enjoyable and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves music and life!!Bravo to all who took part in this masterpiece!!!The story starts out when a young man in Italy finds an old Emitt Rhodes record in a record shop and falls in love with the music and can't understand why the artist hasn't got any other records since the early seventies!!!The frustrated Italian fan proceeds to America with his friends to try to locate Emitt Rhodes!!The Italian fan tries to find people on the street to see if anyone knows of or has heard of Emitt!!! Finally, the Italian fan meets some Radio personalities, Tony and Janis who eventually find Emitt and start to tell his life story.The film has Emitt growing up from a small child to present day where he lives and still creates lovely music!! Please see this film you will love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, A big Emitt Rhodes Fan

Very well done...This is an exceptionally sad story of what the greedy music industry did to a young man who was on his way to becoming a very big star... Because of their treachery, the world never got to hear all the wonderful music this young man would have made... And that's not even considering how this destroyed his personal life...Failed marriages, children without their father, depression and an overall miserable existance. I wish I could say or do something for Emitt that would help him in some way, because I genuinely feel bad for him... But I do want to thank him for all of the wonderful music he made that I still Love and listen to often...

Beautiful documentary, wonderfully filmed and narrated in both English and Italian. This film gives insight into the life of a 60's, local LA pop star who went astray. Filmed in both color and black and white it chronicles his short but brilliant career through the use of archival film footage and current interviews. Interviews with musical contemporaries and friends gives insight into his musical genius and his life's vicissitudes. Fabulous to see footage of Emitt Rhodes in the studio recording with his new band. The new songs on the soon to be released CD show his talents have not diminished if anything, they have matured. Looking forward to hearing the entire CD. This film is a job well done. It is well worth seeing.

Cosimo Messeri has directed an amazing look at pop genius and cult figure Emitt Rhodes. The director, who is far too young to have known Rhodes' music when it was first released, looks at a man who could have had it all in the music business if not for bad contracts, ridiculous deadlines, and perhaps personal demons. Through interviews with those who knew and worked with Rhodes, Messeri weaves a tale of musical genius and lost opportunity. We see Rhodes in old home movies, laughing and enjoying life, which appear in stark contrast to the Rhodes of today. The music is still there, but the drive and desire seem to have dissolved with the will to fight for what was taken away years ago by record company executives. In the studio again after 30 some years, Rhodes is making wonderful pop music, his voice as pure as ever. The question posed by the director - is it too late? I say never.