A brand new documentary about late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley premiered on the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant. Director Amy Berg’s It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley was years within the making, and consists of never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives, in addition to interviews with the artist’s mom, Mary Guibert, former companions Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, hiss former bandmates, and musicians like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann. Right this moment, Magnolia Photos has launched the primary official trailer for the movie. Test it out under, and scroll down for the film poster.
It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley arrives in theaters on Friday, August 8. It would premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max within the winter.
In a director’s assertion, Berg revealed that she has been attempting to make a documentary on Buckley for almost 20 years. “I first approached Mary, Jeff’s mother, in 2007,” she mentioned. “It appeared like she needed to work collectively, however she opted out.”
The filmmaker continued: “She needed to make a scripted movie and supplied it to me to direct, however after exploring the unimaginable archive, I knew this was a doc. I couldn’t get Jeff’s ultimate voicemail to his mom out of my thoughts for years. It made me cry on many events because it most likely will for you. I reached out to [Mary] each time I completed a movie, and she or he ‘politely’ declined. Till the summer time of 2019. My timing was lastly proper! I can actually say the euphoria nonetheless hasn’t settled.”
The movie touches on Buckley’s childhood, his prominence in New York’s avant-garde downtown scene within the early Nineties, and his rise to fame with the discharge of his masterful 1994 debut—and solely studio album—Grace. Berg’s documentary pays particular consideration to the ladies who had been pivotal in Buckley’s life, together with his mom, who raised him alone. (Buckley met his father, the famed folks singer Tim Buckley, solely as soon as, when he was eight years previous.)
Jeff Buckley died in 1997 on the age of 30. Throughout that point interval, he had been engaged on his sophomore LP, My Sweetheart the Drunk, with producer and Tv frontman Tom Verlaine. The collected recordings of these classes, titled Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk had been launched in 1998.
