A second Lee Scratch Perry movie in almost as many years. Last year, we followed the progress of the critically-acclaimed musical documentary from Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, on the life of the Jamaican reggae pioneer and legend, titled The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry. The film traveled the international film festival circuit, and was released last fall. This new Lee Scratch Perry film comes from German filmmaker Volker Schaner, and is titled Lee Scratch Perry's Vision Of Paradise. Here's how the filmmaker describes what he calls a "fairytale documentary": A thrilling, poetic narration with the legendary Lee Scratch...
- 3/21/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Indefatigable in their desire to find larger and larger audiences for their film, Adam Bhala Lough (Bomb the System, Weapons) and and his co-director Ethan Higbee have been self-distributing The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry for what feels like an eternity. The film had its world premiere at SXSW in 2008 and bounced around the festival circuit for the next year and a half, picking up Benicio Del Toro as an executive producer and narrator along the way, while winning generally positive notices in most of its stops. When Lough (one of 2003′s “25 New Faces of Independent …...
- 12/7/2012
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A critically-acclaimed musical documentary we gave lots of ink/pixel to, from Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, on the life of Jamaican reggae pioneer and legend Lee Scratch Perry. We interviewed both directors several months ago, when the film was traveling the country in a limited theatrical release. Read that wonderful piece Here if you missed it. And if you never got an opportunity to see the film, and who'd embrace the opportunity to actually earn a few bucks from helping to share the film, here you go, : The filmmakers of critically acclaimed music documentary The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry to partner...
- 11/14/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Here’s the official theatrical trailer for the upcoming new documentary on the life of Jamaican reggae pioneer and legend Lee “Scratch” Perry, narrated by a man who claims to be one of his biggest fans, Benicio Del Toro – a film Perry himself called his “my movie,” and “the truth.”
First featured on this site last month, The Upsetter, named after Perry’s 1969 album, and directed by indie filmmakers Adam Bhala Lough (The Carter, Bomb The System) and Ethan Higbee (The Anti-Fascist), took 7+ years to produce. It made its debut last week Friday, March 25th at Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent theater, where it’s play for a 1-week run, before traveling to Portland, Long Beach, New York, Boulder, Houston, Boston, Detroit, and a few other cities, in successive weeks, each also for 1-week runs. Visit the film’s website Here for info.
We’ve got interviews with both directors coming...
First featured on this site last month, The Upsetter, named after Perry’s 1969 album, and directed by indie filmmakers Adam Bhala Lough (The Carter, Bomb The System) and Ethan Higbee (The Anti-Fascist), took 7+ years to produce. It made its debut last week Friday, March 25th at Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent theater, where it’s play for a 1-week run, before traveling to Portland, Long Beach, New York, Boulder, Houston, Boston, Detroit, and a few other cities, in successive weeks, each also for 1-week runs. Visit the film’s website Here for info.
We’ve got interviews with both directors coming...
- 3/28/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Widely revered in reggae and hip-hop circles, Lee “Scratch” Perry is one of 20th century music’s most influential and mysterious artists, a tried-and-true rasta man whose lasting contribution goes beyond spawning some of reggae’s most seminal acts. He was, in fact, the driver for the aesthetic innovations that germinated into the two genres mentioned above, and he reinvented the image of the studio engineer from mere technician to artistic focal point. Now in his mid seventies and expatriated to Switzerland, he’s the subject of the feature-length doc The Upsetter, from the directors Adam Bhala Lough (The Carter, Weapons) and Ethan Higbee (Red Apples Falling). Nyu classmates, frequent collaborators (Higbee has scored several of Lough’s previous features) and nearly lifelong reggae fans, Lough and Higbee received unprecedented access to the beguiling Perry, who speaks in gorgeous, puzzle-like sentences that require significant scrutiny to unpack.
The Upsetter screened...
The Upsetter screened...
- 3/23/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
An upcoming new documentary on the life of Jamaican reggae pioneer and legend Lee “Scratch” Perry, will be narrated by a man who claims to be one of his biggest fans, Benicio Del Toro.
Titled The Upsetter, named after Perry’s 1969 album, and directed by indie filmmakers Adam Bhala Lough (The Carter, Bomb The System) and Ethan Higbee (The Anti-Fascist), the film, which THR says has been in the works for some 7 years, will make its open on Friday, March 25th at Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent theater, where it’ll play for a 1-week run, before traveling to Portland, Long Beach, New York, Boulder, Houston, Boston, Detroit, and a few other cities, in successive weeks, each also for 1-week runs.
“Besides just being an eccentric character, what hooked me was that through his life, you can really chart the birth and growth of reggae,” said director Lough.
Co-director Higbee added,...
Titled The Upsetter, named after Perry’s 1969 album, and directed by indie filmmakers Adam Bhala Lough (The Carter, Bomb The System) and Ethan Higbee (The Anti-Fascist), the film, which THR says has been in the works for some 7 years, will make its open on Friday, March 25th at Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent theater, where it’ll play for a 1-week run, before traveling to Portland, Long Beach, New York, Boulder, Houston, Boston, Detroit, and a few other cities, in successive weeks, each also for 1-week runs.
“Besides just being an eccentric character, what hooked me was that through his life, you can really chart the birth and growth of reggae,” said director Lough.
Co-director Higbee added,...
- 2/28/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Finally in theaters after a lengthy post-festival absence, The Upsetter: The Life & Music Of Lee Scratch Perry tells the story of Lee “Scratch” Perry, who is every bit as much a wizard as a magician. Working in a Kingston studio called the Black Ark, outfitted with hyper-customized recording and remixing equipment that could charitably be describes as low-end, he created some of the most astonishing and complex musical textures ever heard, this is Jamaican dub at its source and there is much to appreciate in it.
This film shows us the Upsetter as he talks about his music, recounts his life, demonstrates his remixing technique and goes to the edge of insanity again and again. We hear unbelievable stories about his life and the music business in Jamaica, where there are no rules. The interviews with Perry leave no doubt that this is a man who marches to the beat of his own echoplex,...
This film shows us the Upsetter as he talks about his music, recounts his life, demonstrates his remixing technique and goes to the edge of insanity again and again. We hear unbelievable stories about his life and the music business in Jamaica, where there are no rules. The interviews with Perry leave no doubt that this is a man who marches to the beat of his own echoplex,...
- 1/5/2011
- by Lars Nilsen
- OriginalAlamo.com
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