The Salt Spring Film Festival‘s “Best of the Fests” film series at ArtSpring continues on January 22 with Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band, which made history when it premiered as the Opening Night Gala at the Toronto International Film Festival, the first time a Canadian documentary has been selected for this honour.
If you don’t already love The Band, you will after seeing this rollicking retrospective – inspired by the bestselling 2016 memoir “Testimony” – which blends archival footage with Robertson’s engaging and humorous recollections, interspersed with lively interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel and Ronnie Hawkins.
