Executive Produced by Public Enemy’s Chuck D, and directed by Mike Todd, “Hustlers Convention” is a documentary film on the forgotten roots of rap. The film centers around the life and times of Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of The Last Poets,… Continue Reading →...
- 1/18/2017
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines the urban picaresque proto-rap album by Lightnin’ Rod, Aka Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets
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Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines a lost ancestral moment of black consciousness and black pop culture in the Us. It is about the proto-rap album Hustlers Convention, released in 1973 by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, otherwise known as Lightnin’ Rod: a recording which influenced hip-hop, funk and even the rarefied world of the concept album.
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Related: Hustlers Convention: rap's great lost album
Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines a lost ancestral moment of black consciousness and black pop culture in the Us. It is about the proto-rap album Hustlers Convention, released in 1973 by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, otherwise known as Lightnin’ Rod: a recording which influenced hip-hop, funk and even the rarefied world of the concept album.
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- 6/25/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth of summer, but with that blast of sunshine and steamy humidity comes the mid-year drought of major film fests. After the Sheffield Doc/Fest concludes on June 10th and AFI Docs wraps on June 21st, we likely won’t see any major influx in our charts until Locarno, Venice, Telluride and Tiff announce their line-ups in rapid succession. In the meantime, we can look forward to the intriguing onslaught of films making their debut in Sheffield, including Brian Hill’s intriguing examination of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, The Confessions of Thomas Quick, and Sean McAllister’s film for which he himself was jailed in the process of making, A Syrian Love Story, the only two films world premiering in the festival’s main competition.
- 6/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Comedy documentary, featuring Tom Hanks among others, premiered at Sundance.
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has acquired Sundance documentary Misery Loves Comedy for UK release. The film asks more than 50 comedians “Do you really have to be miserable to be funny?”.
Directed by Kevin Pollak and featuring Tom Hanks, Matthew Perry, Jon Favreau, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Smith and more, it aims to provide a first-hand insight into just what makes a comedy mind tick.
Misery Loves Comedy was previously acquired for the Us by Tribeca Film, and will preview at MipTV before screening at Cannes, alongside Kfd’s other new documentary acquisitions, All American High Revisited and Hustlers Convention.
All American High Revisited goes back to 1984 when director Keva Rosenfeld spent 12 months documenting a foreign exchange student’s journey through her senior high school year.
The result was cult documentary All American High. ‘Revisited’ tracks down its stars 30 years later.
Hustlers Convention is the...
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has acquired Sundance documentary Misery Loves Comedy for UK release. The film asks more than 50 comedians “Do you really have to be miserable to be funny?”.
Directed by Kevin Pollak and featuring Tom Hanks, Matthew Perry, Jon Favreau, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Smith and more, it aims to provide a first-hand insight into just what makes a comedy mind tick.
Misery Loves Comedy was previously acquired for the Us by Tribeca Film, and will preview at MipTV before screening at Cannes, alongside Kfd’s other new documentary acquisitions, All American High Revisited and Hustlers Convention.
All American High Revisited goes back to 1984 when director Keva Rosenfeld spent 12 months documenting a foreign exchange student’s journey through her senior high school year.
The result was cult documentary All American High. ‘Revisited’ tracks down its stars 30 years later.
Hustlers Convention is the...
- 4/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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