Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Two potentially major productions caught in the wheels of the lockdown hit disc and (reasonable) VOD this week, alongside a Sundance doc on Apple TV+,  a lovely new musical bio-doc, and the usual bushel of marvelous catalog titles from Criterion, Warner Archive, and Kino-Lorber.

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Coming off as warm and affectionate as its protagonist, “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind” is a breezy introduction to one of Canada’s most famous singer/songwriters. Chronologically working through Lightfoot’s storied, and seven decades-long, career, directors Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni intermix Lightfoot’s own recollection with traditional talking heads, including contemporary musicians and modern fans of his work. 

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Lightfoot, who is given the most interview time, is both nostalgic and dismissive of his central role in the rebirth of folk in the 60s and 70s, providing a sometimes blunt prospect on his most famous work.

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Ten million albums sold, five Grammy nominations, and career that spans more than five decades — Gordon Lightfoot is a folk music icon. The new documentary “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind” chronicles Lightfoot’s career to introduce his music to a new generation.

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The documentary is peppered with interviews with fans, colleagues, and Lightfoot himself.

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