The Quiet One, a cinematic memoir of The Rolling Stones’ bassist, Bill Wyman, opens in New York and Los Angeles on June 21. Also Available On Demand starting June 28. Features never-before-seen footage and photos from Wyman’s extensive archive, collected over his lifetime.
“The Quiet One” Documentary Film Review: Bill Wyman Does Beckett
The Quiet One, a cinematic memoir about bassist Bill Wyman, founding member of The Rolling Stones, directed by Oliver Murray, played at Tribeca Film Festival and is set to start a theatrical run in June. It’s far from the typical music documentary. Based on Wyman’s immense, personal archive of film, photographs and audio, including new voice-over commentary by Wyman himself, Murray (previously a music video director) had the unenviable task of making a documentary that would offer something fresh to fans or insightful to music historians, while working under the employ of the notoriously private man-of-few-words. The film is oddly fascinating for all the reasons it aims not to be…