Film
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars Premiere + live Q&A
- Director
- Lili Fini Zanuck
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 128 mins
Producer Lili Fini Zanuck‘s first film as director since the 1992 drama Rush – scored by one Eric Clapton – gives Slowhand the long-overdue rockumentary treatment and doesn’t stint on the drink’n’drugs’n’heartache that all Clapton enthusiasts will know by heart. So much so, in fact, that much of his great music is squeezed out as the film rushes through key albums and does the familiar rock-doc thing of ignoring much of his recent output. Still, she’s assembled plenty of archive interviews with the likes of John Mayall, Roger Waters, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Ahmet Ertegan, Pattie Boyd, Steve Winwood, Bobby Whitlock and B.B. King.
This premiere screening is beamed live from the BFI Southbank and is followed by a Q&A with Zanuck and Clapton himself, conducted by Jools Holland. Go here for our full review.
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