An affectionate portrait, not only of Nomi, but also of the long-gone days when downtown Manhattan was an affordable enclave for creative misfits.
The Nomi Song
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Germany · 2004
1h 38m
Director Andrew Horn
Starring Ann Magnuson, Joey Arias, Calvin Churchman, Gabriele Lafari
Genre Documentary, Music
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Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter tenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. The Nomi Song is a film about fame, death, friendship, betrayal, opera, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Occasionally exhilarating documentary.
Dazzles with rare performance footage.
Made with considerable wit and style, Horn's thoughtful celebration of the era and its most uncanny diva could function as the show's ("East Village USA") supplement.
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Intriguing and affecting documentary.
Without coming out and saying it, The Nomi Song creates the sense that its subject might simply have been a few hundred years ahead of his time.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust
Horn, who knew Nomi, does an excellent job of evoking the exhilaratingly hedonistic period the film covers as well as the long shadow that the coming of AIDS casts over it.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
And if you never learn much about the man behind the mask, well, that's as Nomi would have wanted it.
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