Off and Running 2010
by r00tz0 on Jan.28, 2010, under Documentary, Movies |
With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers -- one mixed-race and one Korean -- Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents shes always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of her life and make sense of her identity, the results are inspiring. OFF AND RUNNING follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths some people must go to become themselves.
Good Hair
by r00tz0 on Nov.03, 2009, under Documentary, Movies |
Genre Documentary
Rating G
Parents Offensive language
Length 1:35
Director Jeff Stilson
Company Roadside Attractions
Starring Chris Rock
Chris Rock
When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head! Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture. An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn’t always benefit the black community and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.
Sur la base d’une déclaration de sa petite fille, L’acteur comique et animateur Chris Rock part à la découverte de la chevelure de ses pairs, dans un documentaire qui va de ville en ville et de mèches en coupes. Extensions, colorations, mèches, aucun détail ne vous sera épargné dans cette épopée au coeur du cuir chevelu afro-américain
This Is It – Musical documentary
by r00tz0 on Nov.03, 2009, under Documentary, Family & Kids, Movies |
Genre Musical documentary
Rating G
Length 1:52
Director Kenny Ortega
Company Sony Pictures
Starring Michael Jackson
Nick Bass
Michael Bearden
Daniel Celebre
Mekia Cox
Misha Gabriel
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London’s O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before. In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson’s creative partner and the director of the stage show is also directing the film, which is being produced by Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega and Paul Gongaware. Executive producers are John Branca and John McClain.
Un film constitué des images des dernières répétitions de Michael Jackson.