A new documentary about late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley premiered back in January at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Now, the film's producers are getting ready to roll out the highly-anticipated flick to the general public.
According to Pitchfork, director Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley includes never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives, as well as interviews with the artist’s mother, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, his former bandmates, and musicians like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.
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Today (July 16), Magnolia Pictures has released the first official trailer for the film. The teaser shows plenty of behind-the-scenes footage of Buckley on tour, interview tidbits, and even a clip of Buckley crooning his hit song, "Hallelujah."
The film will touch on Buckley’s childhood, his prominence in New York’s avant-garde downtown scene in the early 90s, and his rise to fame with the release of his only studio album, Grace. Berg’s documentary pays special attention to the women in Buckley’s life, particularly his mother, who raised him alone. (Buckley met his father, the famed folk singer Tim Buckley, only once, when he was eight years old.)
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley arrives in theaters Friday, August 8. It will premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max in the winter. In a director’s statement, Berg revealed that she has been trying to make a documentary on Buckley for nearly 20 years. “I first approached Mary, Jeff’s mom, in 2007,” she said. “It seemed like she wanted to work together, but she opted out.”
Berg continued: “She wanted to make a scripted film and offered it to me to direct, but after exploring the incredible archive, I knew this was a doc. I couldn’t get Jeff’s final voicemail to his mother out of my mind for years. It made me cry on many occasions as it probably will for you. I reached out to [Mary] every time I finished a film, and she ‘politely’ declined. Until the summer of 2019. My timing was finally right! I can honestly say the euphoria still hasn’t settled.”
Jeff Buckley died in 1997 at the age of 30. (On May 29, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, Buckley drowned while swimming in the Wolf River.) During that time period, he had been working on his sophomore LP, My Sweetheart the Drunk, with producer and television frontman Tom Verlaine. The collected recordings of those sessions, titled Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk were released in 1998. He has been cited as an influence by singers such as Thom Yorke of Radiohead and Matt Bellamy of Muse. In 2014, Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" was inducted into the American Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
Watch the trailer for It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley and see the official poster below.
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