Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.
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23 May 1950, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
December 27, 1931 in Gadsden, Tennessee, USA
3 April 1961, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
3 April 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
21 June 1985, New York City, New York, USA
13 May 1960, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
4 September 1925, Anniston, Alabama, USA
25 October 1944, Carville, Louisiana, USA
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
24 May 1955, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
30 June 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
March 31, 1978 in Peru
4 October 1973, Newbury Park, California, USA
April 25, 1912 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
October 11, 2018
Elvis is clearly used as a metaphor by Jarecki. Undeniably progressive in his approach and his politics, the filmmaker still crafts a compelling portrait that reaches beyond simply ideology.
July 12, 2018
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki does something rather unusual with The King, which becomes something extraordinary and insightful.
July 12, 2018
At its best, "The King" is a fever dream of American glory and American weirdness - between which there can be an even thinner line than the one separating love from hate.
July 27, 2018
The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough earnest comment and good music to make the effort worth seeing and chewing over.
June 28, 2018
With an insistence that borders almost comically on obsession, [director Eugene Jarecki] forces the singer's life into a larger theory of national decline-the American dream is dead, and Elvis is the emblem of its passing.
September 05, 2018
It's all rather random, but never dull.
September 05, 2018
Jarecki's road-trip never reaches answers or a destination, but it's a curiously diverting ride.
October 09, 2018
Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce serves as a metaphor for what 's wrong with this country in two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new documentary.
October 10, 2018
A compelling portrait of Elvis Presley that contemplates what he meant to America and its ever-evolving dream.
August 27, 2018
The King is a visual essay - it proposes a thesis, then builds a convincing argument, bouncing between Presley's life and the state of the nation.
July 13, 2018
Provocative and at times unwieldy, The King is something of a stoned CNN Special Report on wheels.
June 26, 2018
...the movie does so in painfully simplistic terms, with encyclopedia-style snippets of history, authentically pained but insubstantial musings on "how we got here," and an odd reliance on the comments of celebrities who lack any Presley connection...
