Directed by Oscar®
and Emmy® winner Alex Gibney and co-produced by Mick Jagger, Mr. Dynamite: The
Rise Of James Brown digs into the career of one of music and culture's towering
figures. On November 6, the Peabody Award-winning documentary film will be
released worldwide by UMe on DVD and Blu-ray with exclusive bonus features,
including feature-length roundtable commentary, extended interviews with
original James Brown Revue members and others, the acclaimed music video for
"It's A Man's Man's Man's World," and two classic James Brown Soul
Train television performances, one of which is an unrehearsed blues romp with
Brown's idols B.B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland, which has not been
seen since its original 1975 airing.
Using fresh interviews with James Brown band members and
contemporaries, extraordinary historical interview footage, and rare archival
performances of such Brown classics as "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag,"
"I Got You (I Feel Good)," "Out Of Sight," "Please
Please Please," "Soul Power," "Sex Machine,"
"It's A Man's Man's Man's World," "Cold Sweat," and more,
the feature-length documentary was made with the cooperation of the Brown
Estate, which opened its archives for the first time.
Delving into politics, race relations during the explosive
civil rights movement and the raw power behind several of his most famous
tunes, Mr. Dynamite was honored with a 2014 Peabody Award, for what the Peabody
panel called "its admiring but clear-eyed appraisal of a truly
revolutionary musical figure and his legacies, his relationship to America and
American culture, to funk, to hip hop, to racial politics, to American history
and music history… It's a documentary you could almost dance to, so sure and
steady is its pulse."
The Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown DVD and Blu-ray
packages include a 12-page booklet with an introductory essay by Mick Jagger,
rare James Brown photos and detailed credits.
"Deftly encapsulates why Brown's music was so
innovative and groundbreaking" - Rolling Stone
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown [DVD; Blu-ray]
Directed by Alex Gibney
Produced by Mick Jagger & Victoria Pearman, Peter
Afterman and Blair Foster
Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Dan Brooks, Mike Singer
and Eric Weider
Co-Producer: Trevor Davidoski
Directors of Photography: Maryse Alberti, Antonio Rossi
Editors: Geeta Gandbhir, Maya Mumma
Feature film:
•Total running time:
120 minutes
•Blu-ray Edition – HD Video: 1080p, 16:9 Widescreen / Audio:
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Stereo
•Standard Definition DVD Edition – Video: 16:9 Anamorphic
Widescreen / Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo
•Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish,
Brazilian Portuguese
Bonus Features:
•Feature-length roundtable commentary with Ahmir Questlove
Thompson, bandleader of the legendary Roots crew; Christian McBride, bassist
and bandleader; Alan Leeds, James Brown historian and former Brown tour
director; and Harry Weinger, lead producer of Star Time and other James Brown
reissues
•27 minutes of additional interview clips from original
James Brown Revue members Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, Fred Wesley, Bootsy
Collins, Martha High, Maceo Parker, Melvin Parker, Jab'o Starks, Clyde
Stubblefield and "Cape Man" Danny Ray, as well as Chuck D, Mr. Leeds,
Mr. McBride, Rev. Al Sharpton, Greg Tate and Mr. Thompson.
•James Brown and The J.B.'s live on Soul Train, from
September 1974, performing an incendiary medley of "Cold Sweat/I Can't
Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)/Papa's Got A Brand New Bag/The Payback"
(7:42)
•From deep in the Soul Train archive, James Brown in March
1975 interviewed by host Don Cornelius, then joining B.B. King and Bobby
"Blue" Bland in an impromptu blues medley, "Goin' Down Slow/Gambler's
Blues/It's My Own Fault/I'm Sorry" (7:30)
•Acclaimed music video for "It's A Man's Man's Man's
World," directed by Xavier Fauthoux, winner of the Saatchi & Saatchi
James Brown Music Video Challenge (2:46)
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