sâmbătă, aprilie 03, 2010

The Night James Brown Saved Boston

Film realizat în 2008. Cronică despre:
Got the Feelin’: James Brown in the ’60s

7 November 2008 5:00 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

DVD Release Date: Aug. 5

Director: David Leaf

Starring: James Brown, Al Sharpton, Cornel West, Martin Luther King Jr.

Studio: Shout! Factory

Important footage of a legendary event

It might seem like hyperbole that a man—let alone a musician—could spare a city from almost certain devastation and chaos, but that’s the premise of The Night James Brown Saved Boston, the centerpiece of the three-disc I Got the Feelin’: James Brown in the ’60s. Armed with archival footage and the recollections of Brown’s band members and luminaries ranging from Cornel West to Al Sharpton, documentarian David Leaf makes a comprehensive and compelling case that Brown’s performance on April 5, 1968—and Mayor Kevin White’s grudging decision to broadcast the show live on local television—kept Boston from joining the litany of American cities that were coming apart at the seams in the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s assassination. »













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