Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Film Diary 2023 (39 movies items)

"13.7 "

Oscars 2022 Winners (My Version) (23 movies items)

"Best Documentary Feature! Winner: Summer of Soul! Nominees: Ascension Attica Flee Writing with Fire"

Predicting the Winners of the 2022 Oscars (20 movies items)

"And the Nominees are... *Ascension *Attica *Flee *Summer of Soul *Writing with Fire And the Oscar goes to... Flee has clear love, scoring three nominations, and Attica scored a surprise DGA win, but this has been Summer of Soul's category to lose all season. It's won all major precursors, sans DGA, and has the most broad appeal. Power Rankings 1. Summer of Soul 2. Flee 3. Attica 4. Ascension 5. Writing with Fire"

Top 34 Movies of 2021 (34 movies items)

"#4"

2022 Oscar Nomination Predictions (20 movies items)

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2021 movies - Personal review and Awards - (61 movies items)

"Notes: To be honest, I have to admit that I had actually never heard of the Harlem Cultural Festival that took place in 1969 but I’m not the only one. Indeed, while Woodstock became the most famous festival that ever took place, this festival was actually largely forgotten, at least, by the mainstream audience. What was even more surprising was that they actually did film everything but it took a staggering 50 years before someone finally released the damned thing. Apparently, back then, nobod"

“(USB) The Woodstock of afromaericans and poors, in the same summer¡ Excellent array of groups ans singers. Nina Simone is thirlling, Fith Dimension are happy with 'Hair' songs; BB King is wise; Sly, Mahalia...” read more

Movies the giraffe watched in 2021: November (50 movies items)

"First viewing - Nov. 14th I wanted to catch Summer of Soul in the theatre, but the timing never worked out for me. Thankfully it's streaming now and I was finally able to give it a look. I found the whole thing pretty fascinating, and enjoyed hearing a lot of the music. I also appreciated the ways it mixes in the historical context with each artist who performed at the festival. My only complaint was that there were times where they interrupted the performance to talk about whatever and most of"

A Movie A Year (Part 1) (112 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I have to admit that I had actually never heard of the Harlem Cultural Festival that took place in 1969 but I’m not the only one. Indeed, while Woodstock became the most famous festival that ever took place, this festival was actually largely forgotten, at least, by the mainstream audience. What was even more surprising was that they actually did film everything but it took a staggering 50 years before someone finally released the damned thing. Apparently, back then, nob"