With Marley’s family on board, this officially-approved life story serves up the hits but skirts some big questions
Biopics don’t get more authorised or anaesthetised than this ploddingly solemn account of reggae legend Bob Marley. A great, or good, movie could have been made about Marley’s sensational career, his musical genius, inspirational asceticism (if not quite humility) and poignant sacrificial destiny as someone who drove himself unsparingly through illness to create a free concert for peace and unity in Jamaica in 1978.
But this is a reverent Hallmark Channel-type film made with the family’s cooperation – there’s hardly a relative here without an associate producer credit – and of course it has all the musical rights. The hits are duly served up and that’s always good news. There are also some moments when, without piety, the film bounces into life: it’s great stuff when the...
Biopics don’t get more authorised or anaesthetised than this ploddingly solemn account of reggae legend Bob Marley. A great, or good, movie could have been made about Marley’s sensational career, his musical genius, inspirational asceticism (if not quite humility) and poignant sacrificial destiny as someone who drove himself unsparingly through illness to create a free concert for peace and unity in Jamaica in 1978.
But this is a reverent Hallmark Channel-type film made with the family’s cooperation – there’s hardly a relative here without an associate producer credit – and of course it has all the musical rights. The hits are duly served up and that’s always good news. There are also some moments when, without piety, the film bounces into life: it’s great stuff when the...
- 2/8/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
For 15 minutes or so, Bob Marley: One Love promises to be an antidote to the usual cookie-cutter music biopic, the kind skewered by the 2007 spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Riffing back then on 2005’s Walk the Line, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as troubled country star Johnny Cash, Jake Kasdan’s film took aim at the whole jukebox-movie industry, featuring a solemn lead character who “has to think about his entire life before he goes on stage.”
Spoiler alert: this kind of thing also happens in One Love. But Reinaldo Marcus Green’s film promises so much more, things like real-world politics, emotional complexity, and serious danger. In other words, an alternative to the usual narrative of the greenhorn who dreams big, lives that dream, and then gets sucker-punched by The Man. Gradually, though, the realization dawns that we’re being sold a pup. As Led Zeppelin might say,...
Spoiler alert: this kind of thing also happens in One Love. But Reinaldo Marcus Green’s film promises so much more, things like real-world politics, emotional complexity, and serious danger. In other words, an alternative to the usual narrative of the greenhorn who dreams big, lives that dream, and then gets sucker-punched by The Man. Gradually, though, the realization dawns that we’re being sold a pup. As Led Zeppelin might say,...
- 2/8/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
The visceral melodic pulse heard in the bass playing of Aston “Family Man” Barrett, who died on February 3, is most closely associated with anchoring the messages and providing the sonic heartbeat within Bob Marley’s music. In 1970, Family Man and his brother, drummer Carlton “Carly” Barrett, began playing with Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, who had formed the Wailers in 1963.
Following the departure of Tosh and Wailer from the group in 1973 and throughout Marley’s rise to global stardom as the decade progressed, the Wailers served as his backing band,...
Following the departure of Tosh and Wailer from the group in 1973 and throughout Marley’s rise to global stardom as the decade progressed, the Wailers served as his backing band,...
- 2/4/2024
- by Patricia Meschino
- Rollingstone.com
One of the biggest all-star lineups ever will celebrate the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this weekend. The ceremony filmed October 30 in Cleveland, Ohio, and now airs this Saturday, November 20, on HBO and HBO Max.
The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.
SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...
The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.
SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...
- 11/19/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak paid tribute to the artists who died last year during the 2021 Grammy Awards’ In Memoriam segment.
Introduced by Grammys host Trevor Noah, the lengthy 12-minute block kicked off with Mars and Paak — who performed earlier in the night as the duo Silk Sonic — roaring through “Long Tall Sally” and “Good Golly Miss Molly” in honor of Little Richard. Mars handled vocal duties, while Paak backed him up on drums. Little Richard, the architect of rock & roll,...
Introduced by Grammys host Trevor Noah, the lengthy 12-minute block kicked off with Mars and Paak — who performed earlier in the night as the duo Silk Sonic — roaring through “Long Tall Sally” and “Good Golly Miss Molly” in honor of Little Richard. Mars handled vocal duties, while Paak backed him up on drums. Little Richard, the architect of rock & roll,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving founding member of the legendary group The Wailers, died on Tuesday in his native Jamaica. He was 73.
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston. They catapulted to international fame with the album, Catch a Fire and also helped popularize Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans starting in the 1970s.
“Jah-b was a vanguard, always pushing the boundaries of expression, whether in song, in ...
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston. They catapulted to international fame with the album, Catch a Fire and also helped popularize Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans starting in the 1970s.
“Jah-b was a vanguard, always pushing the boundaries of expression, whether in song, in ...
Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving founding member of the legendary group The Wailers, died on Tuesday in his native Jamaica. He was 73.
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston. They catapulted to international fame with the album, Catch a Fire and also helped popularize Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans starting in the 1970s.
“Jah-b was a vanguard, always pushing the boundaries of expression, whether in song, in ...
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston. They catapulted to international fame with the album, Catch a Fire and also helped popularize Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans starting in the 1970s.
“Jah-b was a vanguard, always pushing the boundaries of expression, whether in song, in ...
Reggae pioneer Bunny Wailer, who founded The Wailers with his childhood friend Bob Marley, died today at Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 73, and had been hospitalized since July following a stroke.
A cause of death has not been released, but his passing was confirmed by Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange.
Born Neville O’Riley Livingston, Wailer was the last surviving member of the reggae group that shared his name. He left The Wailers in 1974 to launch a decades-long solo career and was awarded Jamaican Government’s Order of Merit in 2017.
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During his 1963-74 tenure with Marley and The Wailers; other co-founder Peter Tosh, Wailer saw their songs “Simmer Down” (1964), “Stir It Up” (1967) and “Get Up, Stand Up” (1973) become national hits. Those songs would go on to become iconic, foundational works of reggae music, with “Stir It Up...
A cause of death has not been released, but his passing was confirmed by Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange.
Born Neville O’Riley Livingston, Wailer was the last surviving member of the reggae group that shared his name. He left The Wailers in 1974 to launch a decades-long solo career and was awarded Jamaican Government’s Order of Merit in 2017.
Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery
During his 1963-74 tenure with Marley and The Wailers; other co-founder Peter Tosh, Wailer saw their songs “Simmer Down” (1964), “Stir It Up” (1967) and “Get Up, Stand Up” (1973) become national hits. Those songs would go on to become iconic, foundational works of reggae music, with “Stir It Up...
- 3/2/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Bunny Wailer, a founding member of the Wailers and a reggae music giant whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 73.
Wailer’s manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed that Wailer died on Tuesday at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica (via the Jamaica Observer). No cause of death was given, but Wailer had been in and out of the hospital since suffering his second stroke, in 2020. A representative for the musician did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
Wailer, born Neville Livingston — before adopting his famous moniker,...
Wailer’s manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed that Wailer died on Tuesday at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica (via the Jamaica Observer). No cause of death was given, but Wailer had been in and out of the hospital since suffering his second stroke, in 2020. A representative for the musician did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
Wailer, born Neville Livingston — before adopting his famous moniker,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
There have been an estimated 500 books about Bob Marley, according to author/broadcaster/historian/archivist Roger Steffens. Many are excellent: See Stephen Davis’ Bob Marley, Vivien Goldman’s career-peak profile The Book of Exodus and Steffens’ own Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography, co-authored with Leroy Jodie Pierson, which may be the most lovingly Herculean feat of record-collector archaeology ever.
So why do we need another? Steffens offers plenty of reasons in his accurately titled So Much Things to Say, due out in paperback October 30th. Here’s one: a riveting,...
So why do we need another? Steffens offers plenty of reasons in his accurately titled So Much Things to Say, due out in paperback October 30th. Here’s one: a riveting,...
- 10/29/2018
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Reggae’s justice-driven Rastafari icons like Bob Marley would have us Americans thinking Jamaica’s cannabis policy would reflect their cannabis-friendly culture. In fact, it’s taken decades for the Caribbean island’s government to finally legalize even just medical marijuana, to honor Rastafarians’ sacramental use of ganja, to support a nascent cannabis industry and to begin economizing on the country’s long-standing reputation.
“Even as much as everyone thinks that everyone smokes herb in Jamaica, not everyone does — and there are definitely people who look down upon it,” says Bob’s eldest grandson,...
“Even as much as everyone thinks that everyone smokes herb in Jamaica, not everyone does — and there are definitely people who look down upon it,” says Bob’s eldest grandson,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Madison Margolin
- Rollingstone.com
King Yellowman says Snoop Dogg needs to keep his alter-ego, Snoop Lion, in retirement -- 'cause the hip-hop superstar's reggae album wasn't up to snuff ... by Jamaica's standards, anyway. The dancehall reggae legend arrived in L.A. for a festival show, and we asked him about Snoop's reggae one-off album from 2013. You'll recall, Snoop was inspired after taking a trip to Jamrock -- but Yellowman says the locals were not impressed. He reminded us, even...
- 8/6/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
News that Snoop Dogg had taken a smoker's sabbatical from West Coast party rap was met with a healthy skepticism, bemusement and even derision when it first started making its way around the web last summer. But now, Snoop has settled into his newest incarnation: Snoop Lion, a peace-loving, violence-hating reggae artist who claims to be a descendent of Bob Marley.
His transformation was the subject of "Reincarnated," a Vice documentary that traced the 41-year-old rapper's trip to Jamaica and subsequent cultural baptism. The film offers a fresh look at Snoop, best known for hits like "Ain't No Fun" and "Drop It Like It's Hot," and makes up what it may lack in cohesion with tender glimpses at a man who appears to be pondering his place in the world.
The result of said introspection is a reggae album produced by Major Lazer and also titled "Reincarnated." The record features songs like "No Guns Allowed,...
His transformation was the subject of "Reincarnated," a Vice documentary that traced the 41-year-old rapper's trip to Jamaica and subsequent cultural baptism. The film offers a fresh look at Snoop, best known for hits like "Ain't No Fun" and "Drop It Like It's Hot," and makes up what it may lack in cohesion with tender glimpses at a man who appears to be pondering his place in the world.
The result of said introspection is a reggae album produced by Major Lazer and also titled "Reincarnated." The record features songs like "No Guns Allowed,...
- 3/28/2013
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
Andy Capper's risible documentary records in an incoherent fashion the spiritual journey (or ego trip) taken by rapper Snoop Dogg to Jamaica after first bringing peace to America's warring rap world on behalf his friend Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. Accompanied by a motley crew, Snoop's aim was to get in touch with his inner Rastafarian, to exchange rap for reggae, and make an album in Kingston. He seems to have spent much of his time on the weed and wreathed in holy smoke, and the result is comic, pretentious and tedious. The encounter with Bunny Wailer, the reggae performer who was with Bob Marley from the beginning, is unintentionally hilarious, and all I can say is honi soit qui Marley pense.
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- 3/24/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Any probing into Snoop Dogg's conversion to Rastafarianism disappears in a puff of ganja smoke in a weak documentary
Snoop Dogg is dead. Rise up Snoop Lion. This, according to Vice magazine editor Andy Capper's slavering documentary, is the rebirth of the Long Beach rap hero into a full dread Rasta. After making a career from gangster rap, the D-o-double-g has renounced violence, so it's off to Kingston, Jamaica (a crucible of peace, love and unity in this doc), where Snoop can be filmed smoking an awful lot of ganja and making an album of puff-light reggae with producer Diplo. Bar a gentle sparring session with the legend Bunny Wailer, there's little discussion of Snoop's appropriation of this lifestyle, just as there's no real explanation of Rastafarianism's traditions other than smoking weed. Snoop's motives seem pure, his heart in the right place. There could have been an interesting...
Snoop Dogg is dead. Rise up Snoop Lion. This, according to Vice magazine editor Andy Capper's slavering documentary, is the rebirth of the Long Beach rap hero into a full dread Rasta. After making a career from gangster rap, the D-o-double-g has renounced violence, so it's off to Kingston, Jamaica (a crucible of peace, love and unity in this doc), where Snoop can be filmed smoking an awful lot of ganja and making an album of puff-light reggae with producer Diplo. Bar a gentle sparring session with the legend Bunny Wailer, there's little discussion of Snoop's appropriation of this lifestyle, just as there's no real explanation of Rastafarianism's traditions other than smoking weed. Snoop's motives seem pure, his heart in the right place. There could have been an interesting...
- 3/22/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Editor's Note: This interview originally ran during the Toronto International Film Festival. "Reincarnated" opens in theaters in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, and Austin today. An unlikely presence at this year's Toronto International Film Festival was the man formerly known as Snoop Dogg (and Snoop Doggy Dogg before that), Snoop Lion. Snoop was at the festival with a film that explains the rather epic story behind that name change, "Reincarnated." Directed by Vice Magazine global editor Andy Capper, the film depicts the professional and spiritual upheaval that Snoop experienced during a trip to Jamaica in which he would abandon his career as a hip hop artist and record his first reggae album. During his time in Jamaica, Snoop spent time with reggae legend Bunny Wailer. After sharing some smoke with Wailer in his home, Wailer enthuiastically dubbed Snoop "a lion!" And thus, Snoop Lion was born.
- 3/15/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
West Hollywood, Calif. -- Snoop Lion won't fire back at critics who say his backing of the Rastafari movement is simply another gimmick from one of hip-hop's savviest self-marketers. But Snoop Dogg will.
Reggae pioneer Bunny Wailer is the most notable skeptic. Wailer bestowed the Lion name on Snoop, but has since repeatedly questioned the 41-year-old rapper's intentions and commitment to Rasta ideology.
Asked by The Associated Press to respond, Snoop's face registered a flash of malice followed by a devilish smile: "If I was Snoop Dogg: `(Expletive) Bunny Wailer.' But I'm Snoop Lion right now, so I'm chilling," he said.
He is using the name to release a reggae- and dancehall-focused album, "Reincarnated." Produced by Major Lazer – which includes DJ-producer Diplo – it features guests ranging from Chris Brown and Drake to Jamaica's Mr. Vegas and Mavado.
While promoting an accompanying documentary that tracks his trip to Jamaica and exploration of Rasta culture,...
Reggae pioneer Bunny Wailer is the most notable skeptic. Wailer bestowed the Lion name on Snoop, but has since repeatedly questioned the 41-year-old rapper's intentions and commitment to Rasta ideology.
Asked by The Associated Press to respond, Snoop's face registered a flash of malice followed by a devilish smile: "If I was Snoop Dogg: `(Expletive) Bunny Wailer.' But I'm Snoop Lion right now, so I'm chilling," he said.
He is using the name to release a reggae- and dancehall-focused album, "Reincarnated." Produced by Major Lazer – which includes DJ-producer Diplo – it features guests ranging from Chris Brown and Drake to Jamaica's Mr. Vegas and Mavado.
While promoting an accompanying documentary that tracks his trip to Jamaica and exploration of Rasta culture,...
- 3/14/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Snoop Lion quietly roared back at the Rastafarians who put him on blast -- by showing up to Lax with a Bob Marley shirt and a badass Rasta cap.As TMZ previously reported, Bunny Wailer -- an original member of Bob Marley and the Wailers -- is threatening to sue Snoop ... claiming he's big phony who's posing as a Rastafarian to make a movie and sell records. A group called the Rastafari Millennium Council also...
- 1/24/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The great spiritual leader known as Snoop Lion (né Dogg) may have hit a stumbling block in his path toward enlightenment—mainly because a number of prominent Rastafarians have expressed some serious doubts that his recent turn toward the faith is at all spiritual. In an interview with TMZ, Bunny Wailer (of Bob Marley And The Wailers) said that he is outraged by the rapper’s “fraudulent use of Rastafari Community’s personalities and symbolism” in his new all-encompassing project, Reincarnated. And the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council has even threatened to sue if Snoop doesn’t desist soon. Snoop ...
- 1/23/2013
- avclub.com
Snoop Lion, nee Snoop Dogg, has done the seemingly impossible -- pissed off a bunch of ganja smoking Rastafarians -- who claim he lied about becoming a Rasta just to make a movie and sell records ... and now they're threatening to sue.Bunny Wailer -- an original member of Bob Marley and the Wailers -- tells TMZ he's heated about the docu-film "Reincarnated" ... which documented Snoop's immersion in the Rasta culture as he recorded his...
- 1/23/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
These days, Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg) is serious about spreading a positive message, but he hasn't done away with his sense of humor.
Related: Snoop Dogg Changes Name to Snoop Lion!
The rapper-turned-reggae artist released Pocket Like It Like It's Hot (a remixed video version of 2004's Drop It Like It's Hot) earlier this month, and on Tuesday he spoke with ETonline about making the video as well as Reincarnated (the documentary which follows his spiritual awakening in Jamaica) and whether or not he'll ever make another rap album.
ETonline: Who came up with the idea for the [Pocket Like It's Hot] video and how did it come about?
Snoop Lion: They approached me about it, and we put a team together (like Andy Milonakis around it and a couple other people that I had trust and faith with the comedy side of what I do). I liked the idea and, you know, went...
Related: Snoop Dogg Changes Name to Snoop Lion!
The rapper-turned-reggae artist released Pocket Like It Like It's Hot (a remixed video version of 2004's Drop It Like It's Hot) earlier this month, and on Tuesday he spoke with ETonline about making the video as well as Reincarnated (the documentary which follows his spiritual awakening in Jamaica) and whether or not he'll ever make another rap album.
ETonline: Who came up with the idea for the [Pocket Like It's Hot] video and how did it come about?
Snoop Lion: They approached me about it, and we put a team together (like Andy Milonakis around it and a couple other people that I had trust and faith with the comedy side of what I do). I liked the idea and, you know, went...
- 10/24/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
Snoop Dogg likes weed. That was common knowledge long before the alternative youth culture magazine Vice asked its global editor Brit Andy Capper to take his camera to Jamaica and show Snoop foraging down hills in search of a perfect high. It’s only after the 20-minute haze of smoke has settled that a story of any interest emerges in this authorised biopic. Snoop is ostensibly on the island to make a reggae album. Recording songs with Bunny Wailer, Snoop shows his skills as a musician while embracing Rastafarianism. It’s the former Wailer that tells Snoop that he should be renamed "Snoop Lion." On breaks from recording an album titled Reincarnated, the 41-year-old Californian talks to Capper about his career from street gangster to rap superstar via a year of pimping "bitches," but the most revealing moments come from an interview with Minister Louis Farrakhan of The Nation of Islam,...
- 9/15/2012
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Indiewire
An unlikely presence at this year's Toronto International Film Festival was the man formerly known as Snoop Dogg (and Snoop Doggy Dogg before that), Snoop Lion. Snoop was at the festival with a film that explains the rather epic story behind that name change, "Reincarnated." Directed by Vice Magazine global editor Andy Capper, the film depicts the professional and spiritual upheaval that Snoop experienced during a trip to Jamaica in which he would abandon his career as a hip hop artist and record his first reggae album. During his time in Jamaica, Snoop spent time with reggae legend Bunny Wailer. After sharing some smoke with Wailer in his home, Wailer enthuiastically dubbed Snoop "a lion!" And thus, Snoop Lion was born. Read More of Indiewire's Extensive Toronto Film Festival Coverage But "Reincarnated" isn't just about Snoop's new name. It's about the legacy of Rastafari music culture. It's about a man.
- 9/10/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
At a Friday afternoon press conference in Toronto, the rapper Snoop Dogg took time out from promoting his new film, "Reincarnated," to weigh in on the U.S. presidential election.
"They need to give Obama four more years, man," Snoop told an audience of mostly amused reporters. Referring to Obama's predecessor, President George W. Bush, who started two wars and left office during a financial crisis, he added, "I mean, Bush fucked up for eight years, so you gotta at least give [Obama] eight years. He cleaned half the shit up in four years, realistically. It ain't like y'all gave him a clean house. Y'all gave him a house where the TV didn't' work, the toilet was stuffed up -- everything was wrong with the house."
Snoop, whose new film chronicles his efforts to establish himself as a credible reggae artist during a month-long trip to Jamaica (where he acquired the...
"They need to give Obama four more years, man," Snoop told an audience of mostly amused reporters. Referring to Obama's predecessor, President George W. Bush, who started two wars and left office during a financial crisis, he added, "I mean, Bush fucked up for eight years, so you gotta at least give [Obama] eight years. He cleaned half the shit up in four years, realistically. It ain't like y'all gave him a clean house. Y'all gave him a house where the TV didn't' work, the toilet was stuffed up -- everything was wrong with the house."
Snoop, whose new film chronicles his efforts to establish himself as a credible reggae artist during a month-long trip to Jamaica (where he acquired the...
- 9/7/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Last month at Caribana, the rapper formerly known as Snoop Dogg made his live debut as the Rastafarian reggae artist Snoop Lion. This week, Reincarnated, the film that documents his recent visit to Jamaica and the Dogg-to-Lion transformation it inspired, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Officially, it's merely a coincidence that both events are taking place in the same city, but Reincarnated director Andy Capper isn't ruling out a more grandiose explanation.
"There's been so many mystical coincidences in this. I'll wait and see what happens," Capper tells Huffington Post Canada Music. "Wherever this journey takes us, I'm willing to go on it because it's been a great adventure so far."
For Capper, who has also directed music videos for the likes of Vybz Kartel and A$AP Rocky and produced the fascinating and harrowing Vice Guide to Liberia, the journey started when Snoop's...
Officially, it's merely a coincidence that both events are taking place in the same city, but Reincarnated director Andy Capper isn't ruling out a more grandiose explanation.
"There's been so many mystical coincidences in this. I'll wait and see what happens," Capper tells Huffington Post Canada Music. "Wherever this journey takes us, I'm willing to go on it because it's been a great adventure so far."
For Capper, who has also directed music videos for the likes of Vybz Kartel and A$AP Rocky and produced the fascinating and harrowing Vice Guide to Liberia, the journey started when Snoop's...
- 9/7/2012
- by Joshua Ostroff
- Huffington Post
Chicago – Clocking in at a shade under two-and-a-half hours, Kevin Macdonald’s hugely informative yet leisurely paced documentary plays like the condensed version of a top-drawer TV miniseries. There’s even enough fade-outs for one to mentally insert commercial breaks. Yet for music buffs, the need to see this footage on the big screen undoubtedly justified its theatrical release.
As someone only vaguely familiar with Bob Marley, I found myself completely captivated by this picture, which tells the story of a life purely through in-depth interviews and archival footage. Though the film perhaps could’ve benefitted from more concert footage, the context in which the footage is presented is always enlightening, and at times, very moving. Marley’s messages of peace and unity resonate not only through the power of music, but through the methods in which the filmmakers explore the origins of Marley’s beliefs.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
In sequences...
As someone only vaguely familiar with Bob Marley, I found myself completely captivated by this picture, which tells the story of a life purely through in-depth interviews and archival footage. Though the film perhaps could’ve benefitted from more concert footage, the context in which the footage is presented is always enlightening, and at times, very moving. Marley’s messages of peace and unity resonate not only through the power of music, but through the methods in which the filmmakers explore the origins of Marley’s beliefs.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
In sequences...
- 8/23/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Marley
Review by LondonFilmFan
2012 has already been a year full of excellent documentaries and one of its finest, Kevin Macdonald’s Marley, sees its home entertainment release (on Blu-ray and DVD) on Monday 20th August. The reggae and cultural icon gets the definitive treatment here, as nearly two and a half hours are dedicated to delving into his life and influence. Marley isn’t the first documentary to focus on the life and times of Robert Nesta Marley, but it should be the last, as it would be nigh on impossible to top Macdonald’s thorough coverage of the superstar.
As Marley covers Bob’s life and career, so too does it provide a lesson on the evolution of reggae, which Marley played a pivotal part in. His years with the Wailers are fully explored with the aid of valuable and rare input from the sole surviving member of the original trio,...
Review by LondonFilmFan
2012 has already been a year full of excellent documentaries and one of its finest, Kevin Macdonald’s Marley, sees its home entertainment release (on Blu-ray and DVD) on Monday 20th August. The reggae and cultural icon gets the definitive treatment here, as nearly two and a half hours are dedicated to delving into his life and influence. Marley isn’t the first documentary to focus on the life and times of Robert Nesta Marley, but it should be the last, as it would be nigh on impossible to top Macdonald’s thorough coverage of the superstar.
As Marley covers Bob’s life and career, so too does it provide a lesson on the evolution of reggae, which Marley played a pivotal part in. His years with the Wailers are fully explored with the aid of valuable and rare input from the sole surviving member of the original trio,...
- 8/19/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The herb induced gospel of reggae and Rastafarianism would never have become the international phenomenon it has if it wasn’t for the impassioned genius of Robert Nesta Marley, better known to the world as Bob. Under that dreaded mass that consumed his scrawny face, his mind worked overtime to, quite literally, bring peace and unity to the world, while his body decayed in shadow until it was too late to save. Director Kevin Macdonald has done an admirable job of piecing together Marley’s life with what little early material and incomprehensible interview footage he had to work with. Marley shows deep respect for the musician who gave a voice to the struggling nation of Jamaica while remaining surprisingly honest about his short comings as a father and husband.
As most Marley fans know by now, Trenchtown was, and still is, not the best of places to grow up,...
As most Marley fans know by now, Trenchtown was, and still is, not the best of places to grow up,...
- 8/7/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
This week: "The Lorax," the latest Dr. Seuss animated adaptation, features the voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift and Danny DeVito as the titular character whose crusty disposition masks a real love for the environment.
Also new this week is the documentary "Marley" about reggae legend Bob Marley, plus anniversary Blu-ray editions of "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow, Stanley Kubrick's harrowing war drama "Full Metal Jacket" and Mel Brooks' silly "Star Wars" spoof "Spaceballs."
'The Lorax'
Box Office: $214 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 55% Rotten
Storyline: In this animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' children's story, 12-year-old Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) tries to impress his next-door crush (voiced by Taylor Swift) by searching for a special tree, only to discover that the natural world is in need of some TLC as well. Danny DeVito voices the grumpy, orange-furred Lorax while Ed Helms...
Also new this week is the documentary "Marley" about reggae legend Bob Marley, plus anniversary Blu-ray editions of "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow, Stanley Kubrick's harrowing war drama "Full Metal Jacket" and Mel Brooks' silly "Star Wars" spoof "Spaceballs."
'The Lorax'
Box Office: $214 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 55% Rotten
Storyline: In this animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' children's story, 12-year-old Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) tries to impress his next-door crush (voiced by Taylor Swift) by searching for a special tree, only to discover that the natural world is in need of some TLC as well. Danny DeVito voices the grumpy, orange-furred Lorax while Ed Helms...
- 8/6/2012
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 7, 2012
Price: DVD $26.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Magnolia
Marley is a 2011 music documentary film on the legendary reggae godfather Bob Marley.
Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. The film chronicles the life story of the revolutionary musician from his early days to his rise to international superstardom.
Directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and made with the support of the Marley family, the film features a slew of footage, music performances and interview snippets with a host of talking heads, including family members Ziggy, Rita and Cedella, Island Records head honcho Chris Blackwell, and reggae stars Lee Perry, Bunny Wailer, and Judy Mowatt.
The PG-13-rated Marley premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, 2012, followed by its North American premiere at SXSW. It went on to a limited release in U.
Price: DVD $26.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Magnolia
Marley is a 2011 music documentary film on the legendary reggae godfather Bob Marley.
Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. The film chronicles the life story of the revolutionary musician from his early days to his rise to international superstardom.
Directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and made with the support of the Marley family, the film features a slew of footage, music performances and interview snippets with a host of talking heads, including family members Ziggy, Rita and Cedella, Island Records head honcho Chris Blackwell, and reggae stars Lee Perry, Bunny Wailer, and Judy Mowatt.
The PG-13-rated Marley premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, 2012, followed by its North American premiere at SXSW. It went on to a limited release in U.
- 7/10/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Only thirty-six at the time of his death from cancer in 1981, many of his fans weren’t even born when he died, but that hasn’t stopped a generation from connecting to the message of musician Bob Marley. Marley has basically become the kind of icon to today’s youth that Jim Morrison was a couple of decades ago. They wear T shirts and backpacks which feature Marley smoking a ridiculously exaggerated joint that unfortunately now forms the basis of his cultural significance rather than his music, but the new documentary Marley remedies that, giving us an in-depth portrait of the man behind the image. Bob Marley’s many fans all over the world should appreciate this long and thorough documentary that’s the final word on the pioneering reggae artist. Marley is an exhaustive parade of concert and candid footage, rare photos, and interviews with contemporaries, family members, former...
- 4/20/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the new Bob Marley documentary “Marley,” which is the definitive life story of the beloved king of reggae! The film opens on April 20, 2012 from Magnolia Pictures.
“Marley,” which was made with the support of the Marley family, features Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Rita Marley, Cedella Marley, Lee Perry, Chris Blackwell, Cindy Breakspeare, Neville Garrick, Bunny Wailer, The Wailers, Lee Jaffe, Carlton Fraser, Judy Mowatt and Junior Marvin from Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”).
To win your free passes to the advance Chicago screening of “Marley” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, get interactive with our unique Hookup technology directly below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete below,...
“Marley,” which was made with the support of the Marley family, features Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Rita Marley, Cedella Marley, Lee Perry, Chris Blackwell, Cindy Breakspeare, Neville Garrick, Bunny Wailer, The Wailers, Lee Jaffe, Carlton Fraser, Judy Mowatt and Junior Marvin from Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”).
To win your free passes to the advance Chicago screening of “Marley” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, get interactive with our unique Hookup technology directly below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete below,...
- 4/5/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Angelina leads the obligatory Hollywood posse this year but tales about Brits in America, explorers in Africa, Nazis in space and the life of Bob Marley offer more interesting viewing
A big beast with a split personality, the Berlinale likes to parade big Hollywood names while playing films of serious political intent. In that sense, Angelina Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey is exemplary – what could be more Berlin than a directorial debut by a major movie star with the Bosnian war on its mind? Suffice to say here that Jolie's gauche portrayal of a Night Porter-type relationship between a Serb soldier and his Bosnian captive strains for significance. But it does illustrate Berlin's main problem: how to stay relevant when the better films are all held back for Cannes.
Any event that can line up Jolie, Jake Gyllenhaal (on the jury), Christian Bale (in Zhang Yimou's...
A big beast with a split personality, the Berlinale likes to parade big Hollywood names while playing films of serious political intent. In that sense, Angelina Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey is exemplary – what could be more Berlin than a directorial debut by a major movie star with the Bosnian war on its mind? Suffice to say here that Jolie's gauche portrayal of a Night Porter-type relationship between a Serb soldier and his Bosnian captive strains for significance. But it does illustrate Berlin's main problem: how to stay relevant when the better films are all held back for Cannes.
Any event that can line up Jolie, Jake Gyllenhaal (on the jury), Christian Bale (in Zhang Yimou's...
- 2/19/2012
- by Nick James
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a scene towards the end of Fire in Babylon when Bunny Wailer (of Bob Marley's band) stops berating his dogs and says of Viv Richards: "If he had not gone into cricket, he would surely have been a dreadlock rasta man. Real deal." It's a delightful moment that had the audience cracking up. But you couldn't help thinking how different things might have been if the Master Blaster had just sat around all day smoking big spliffs rather than flaying England's bowlers to all parts.
- 6/4/2011
- The Independent - Film
Photoshot/Everett Collection Bob Marley in Amsterdam in 1976.
Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the reggae legend, the Wall Street Journal asked Jamaican-born novelist Colin Channer to share his thoughts.
The first time I saw Bob Marley perform I was eight years old. It was 1971. A Saturday afternoon. I was sitting in a Danish couch with beige cushions and maple arms in a new development of pre-fab homes in Kingston.
Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the reggae legend, the Wall Street Journal asked Jamaican-born novelist Colin Channer to share his thoughts.
The first time I saw Bob Marley perform I was eight years old. It was 1971. A Saturday afternoon. I was sitting in a Danish couch with beige cushions and maple arms in a new development of pre-fab homes in Kingston.
- 5/10/2011
- by Colin Channer
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
There aren't a whole lot of "parties with a purpose," but one will happen on Nov. 20 in Miami, Fl. The Bayside Rocks Festival, a reggae festival that donates a portion of its proceeds to a local non-profit, will feature reggae artists and celebrate the life of reggae legend Gergory Isaacs, who recently passed away of lung cancer.
Bayside Rocks Festival is hailed as "The Woodstock of Reggae" for its nod to the nostalgic era and artists of The Bob Marley One Love Movement. It also gives back to the community by donating proceeds to Voices United, a Miami-based non-profit organization for kids and teens devoted to promoting cultural diversity through the performing arts.
The festival has several reggae legends performing - three time Grammy Award winner, the Legendary Bunny Wailer of the original Wailers; Grammy Award winning Steel Pulse, the Grammy winner who coined the word "Reggae" himself - Toots and The Maytals,...
Bayside Rocks Festival is hailed as "The Woodstock of Reggae" for its nod to the nostalgic era and artists of The Bob Marley One Love Movement. It also gives back to the community by donating proceeds to Voices United, a Miami-based non-profit organization for kids and teens devoted to promoting cultural diversity through the performing arts.
The festival has several reggae legends performing - three time Grammy Award winner, the Legendary Bunny Wailer of the original Wailers; Grammy Award winning Steel Pulse, the Grammy winner who coined the word "Reggae" himself - Toots and The Maytals,...
- 11/2/2010
- icelebz.com
From Mvd Visual, the classic 1978 reggae feature Rockers has been transferred to HD from the original 35mm negative, starring Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace and Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall in a Blu-ray DVD edition following "...a Robin Hood style story of oppressed Jamaican musicians getting even with the criminal types in the music business..." Directed by Ted Bafaloukas, produced by Patrick Hulsey, the restored Blue Sun release showcases Jamaican musicians in 5.1 surround sound, including Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer, Third World, Peter Tosh, Jacob Miller, Gregory Isaacs, Kiddus I, Junior Murvin, Inner Circle, the Heptones and acting roles/appearances by Jacob Miller, Gregory Isaacs, Burning Spear, Kiddus I and Leroy Smart. Bonus Materials include subtitles in French, Spanish, Japanese and Jamaican Patois. Sneak Peek the trailer from Rockers and a 5-minute clip from the film...
- 7/12/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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