Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they've acquired
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's doc
Soul Power.
Having gotten great reviews at this year's
Toronto Film Festival, I had the privileged of seeing the film at a private screening a few weeks ago and if you're a fan of R&B of the '70s and documentaries like
Michael Wadleigh's
Woodstock and
Leon Gast's
When We Were Kings (which Levy-Hinte was an editor on and where the
Soul Power footage originated from) then go see this movie.
Highlighting the music festival to coincide with the
Muhammad Ali-George Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire in 1974, the film covers the strenuous yet at times comical setup of the festival and the amazing performances from some of the great musicians of the time, including
BB King,
Mighty JBs and the incomparable
James Brown, who is treated in higher regard in Zaire than Ali was (if that's at all possible).
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posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 11/04/2008 04:04:00 PM
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