Documentary Filmmaker Alexandria Bomback's Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All On Blu-ray And DVD From Oscilloscope Laboratories On Aug. 13

It is nice to report the release news for something special.   Something interesting.   Something that fans will enjoy.

Big movies, great, they can be fun.   Genre films, if that’s your cup of tea, wait a week and something new will be along.   Classics, take your pick.

The “something special” that surfaced this past week was the news from Oscilloscope Laboratories that documentary filmmaker Alexandria Bombach’s (@ABombach) award-winner, Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All, would be available on DVD and Blu-ray on Aug. 13.  This is an intimate look at the life and times … and music-making career of recording artists Indigo Girls (@Indigo_Girls) — Amy Ray and Emily Saliers!

Was the folk cycle over?   Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Kris Krisofferson … it is a long list.   By 1987 they had come and gone, but were still cherished.   Holly Near was a product of the 70s … she was still touring and her fans adored her.   But in 1987 a new folk revival was born.

In May of 1987 a new album surfaced, perhaps a little below the “popular” radar.  It was “Strange Fire” … it took ten years to be GOLD.   For fans, like us, “Crazy Game” was something new, something worth listening to … Amy and Emily had something.

They were just getting started … their next five albums were either Gold or Platinum.
Bomback’s Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All tells their story.   She had over 1,000 hours worth of candid footage featuring Amy and Emily … the finished film comes in at 123 minutes and gets right to the heart of their relationship, their music and is a tribute to the fans who have enjoyed their music over the past three and half decades.   This is a keeper!!

It opened at Sundance in January of 2023 and then went on a year-long odyssey, screening at such venues as South by Southwest, Hot Docs, Tribeca and dozens more festival sites.  In December of last year Oscilloscope acquired the distribution rights and set up a 98 screen theatrical break in April of this year.   The box office take was $232,803 … the ARR works out to 123 days.

Bonus goodies included with the Aug. 13 DVD and Blu-ray launch of Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All include commentary by Bomback (Frame by Frame, On Her Shoulders), deleted scenes, footage of the film’s theatrical debut at the Tara Theatre in Atlanta and a trio of featurettes — “Behind the Scenes,” “Amy Makes a Movie” and “Harmony with Joan Baez.”