Directed by Amir Bar-Lev On first glance, the four- hour run time of Amir Bar-Lev’s Grateful Dead history is daunting. But there wouldn’t have been any other approach to the complex entity that is the Grateful Dead.Bar-Lev builds the narrative around guitarist Jerry Garcia, casting him as a child who, stricken by the death of his father, finds resonance (“Bongggg!”) in the movie Abbott…
