Music Minute - Elis & Tom: It Just Had to Be You

 ELIS & TOM - It just had to be you

A New Documentary on Iconic Brazilian Musicians
TOM JOBIM and ELIS REGINA
Opens at the CINEMA VILLAGE in New York
December 8, 2023

Featuring remastered, never-before-seen, footage of the recording of 
'Elis and Tom' - one of the greatest Bossa Nova albums of all time!

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Also Coming Soon:
Upstate/Orpheum, Saugerties NY, January 22, 2024
BEGINS STREAMING February 6, 2024 

Outsider Pictures is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical premiere of the music documentary "ELIS & TOM - It just had to be you" continues to screen in Los Angeles beginning Sept 22 at the Lumiere at the Music Hall and continues to add more cities across the US & Canada. The Brazilian premiere was September 24, where the film opened widely on more than 100 screens.   Los Angeles, February 1974. Tom Jobim, the incarnation of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, then Brazil's most popular singer, met to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music. Elis brought her band, who joined Tom Jobim and the best musicians in LA, arranged by Bill Hitchcock at MGM studios.  Through rare and never-before-seen images the new music documentary Elis & Tom - It had to be you tells the story of how the encounter and recording of two iconic musicians occurred. The recording was captured by the team of filmmakers led by director Roberto de Oliveira, who arranged for the duo to meet. The original footage was kept for 45 years until it was restored and remastered in 2018. These rare and unpublished images drive this musical documentary. Dramas and tensions surrounded the recording of the album, to the point that the project was almost interrupted. In the end, the power of the music took over and led Elis Regina, Tom Jobim and a group of talented young musicians to record a masterpiece.  Elis and Tom reveals the conflicts and joys of a unique moment, in a journey through time, revealing the intimacy of the creative process and the extraordinary personalities of these amazing artists.   FOR MORE ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS ALBUM WITHIN THE MUSIC WORLD, PLEASE READ ALL ABOUT JAZZ click here: Elis Regina And Antonio Carlos Jobim: A Musical Love Story And A Timeless Recording