Do you remember what you were doing the evening of May 16, 1983? Well, you may have been one of the 47 million people tuned into NBC’s landmark special “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever.”
It was the star-studded celebration hosted by Emmy nominee Richard Pryor which saw Michael Jackson reuniting with his brothers for a medley of their Jackson 5 hits including “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.”
But it was Jackson’s solo performance of his blockbuster No. 1 hit “Billie Jean” from his breakthrough album “Thriller” which galvanized the audience. It was an electrifying turn where he introduced the fedora, black sequin jacket and glove and his momentous moonwalk routine during the bridge of the song, all of which became his trademarks when performing “Billie Jean.” The New York Times described the routine as “astonishing. He is clearly the heir apparent to the dazzling androgyny...
It was the star-studded celebration hosted by Emmy nominee Richard Pryor which saw Michael Jackson reuniting with his brothers for a medley of their Jackson 5 hits including “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.”
But it was Jackson’s solo performance of his blockbuster No. 1 hit “Billie Jean” from his breakthrough album “Thriller” which galvanized the audience. It was an electrifying turn where he introduced the fedora, black sequin jacket and glove and his momentous moonwalk routine during the bridge of the song, all of which became his trademarks when performing “Billie Jean.” The New York Times described the routine as “astonishing. He is clearly the heir apparent to the dazzling androgyny...
- 5/15/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The Batman TV show, with Neil Hefti’s indelible “na-na-na-na-na-na-Batman” theme song, debuted in the U.S. in January 1966, hitting the U.K. in May. In April of that year, the Beatles started recording what would become the opening track of Revolver, George Harrison’s “Taxman,” which resembles the Batman theme when the band harmonizes on the title phrase. There were already three cover versions of the Batman theme released by April, including a hit version by the Marketts, so it’s entirely possible that the Beatles might have heard...
- 11/26/2022
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about four high school seniors in one of Florida’s poorest towns, Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas’s “Pahokee” might seem poised to embrace the nauseatingly ethnographic nature of some “observational” non-fiction cinema, but. Here, the camera isn’t some kind of impassable divide that invites its subjects to be looked at rather than reckoned with.
Whether filming one of the marquee football games that have made Pahokee Middle-High School into a major pipeline between poverty and the NFL, or catching a moment of quiet resilience between the team captain and his mom, Bresnan and Lucas feel right there in the thick of things. The doc’s static compositions and patient design may invite some obligatory comparisons to the work of Frederick Wiseman, but “Pahokee” is much less interested in the machinations of the town’s educational system than it is in how they impact its students.
Whether filming one of the marquee football games that have made Pahokee Middle-High School into a major pipeline between poverty and the NFL, or catching a moment of quiet resilience between the team captain and his mom, Bresnan and Lucas feel right there in the thick of things. The doc’s static compositions and patient design may invite some obligatory comparisons to the work of Frederick Wiseman, but “Pahokee” is much less interested in the machinations of the town’s educational system than it is in how they impact its students.
- 4/24/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
This stat says a lot about Pahokee, Fl’s community: 91% of kids at the local high school qualify for free lunch and yet over 90% of every senior class graduates with many heading to college as their family’s first-ever collegiate student (if they aren’t also adding to a list of forty current/former NFL players who called this Everglades town home). That’s the goal every parent working the sugar cane fields perpetually burning in the background has for his/her children. They seek to provide opportunity outside of an impoverished neighborhood holding Florida’s worst unemployment rate even if doing so all but guarantees that number will never decrease due to their youth forever moving away. They’ve rendered Pahokee a way station full of love, hope, and the American Dream.
And that’s exactly what Pahokee directors Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan put on-screen while following Class of 2017 seniors Na’Kerria Nelson,...
And that’s exactly what Pahokee directors Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan put on-screen while following Class of 2017 seniors Na’Kerria Nelson,...
- 4/24/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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