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- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 13, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dave Chappelle | |
Featured: | Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Kanye West, Big Daddy Kane, The Fugees, The Roots, Common, Freeway, Dead Prez & Mos Def | |
Directed by | Michel Gondry | |
Produced by | Dave Chappelle, Michel Gondry & Bob Yari | |
Director of Photography: | Ellen Kuras |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
No one enjoys the free festivities more than Chappelle, who wanders through the film like a kid on Christmas morning. A very funny kid.
Philadelphia Inquirer
A joyous, inclusive spirit defines director Michel Gondry and Dave Chappelle's road-trip/concert film...
Rolling Stone
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Films Of The Year -- BLOCK PARTY weaves music, comedy, stars and audience members into a funky and delirious vaudeville.
Entertainment Weekly
[A] tantalizing sketch-portrait of the artist amid an outpouring of hard beats and soul.
New York Times
Chappelle keeps things lively, joking on camera, punctuating the acts with gags , while Michel Gondry maintains our interest, focusing as much on Chappelle's energy and wit, and goings-on behind the scenes, as the gig itself.
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Time Out
4 stars out of 5 -- Chappelle is the perfect host, effortlessly improvising before and between acts....You won't just wish you'd been there -- you'll feel like you really were.
Total Film
Gives off an inclusive hum
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CinePassion
Product Description:
Between the sharp comedic mind of David Chappelle and the quirky brilliance of French director Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), there's not a single bad moment to be found in this captivating concert documentary chronicling a massive block party that Chappelle threw in 2004 down in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. With acts like the Roots, Kanye West, Jill Scott, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, and a reunion of the Fugees, this will be an automatic favorite for the hip-hop/neo-soul crowd. In its perceptive, celebratory way, the film opens the VIP gates on hip-hop culture and invites everyone in for a funky good time. Gondry's fly-on-the wall camera approach recalls D.A. Pennebaker docs like DON'T LOOK BACK (1967) but the attitude is more laid back and genial; the stars, the band, the locals, the marching band Chappelle buses in from his Ohio hometown, all come together with a rare sense of charmed spontaneity--watching it becomes akin to participation. Chappelle is hilarious, whether handing out golden tickets to old ladies or reciting improv poetry to a bongo beat, and the music is just as good, with highlights being Lauryn Hill's heartbreaking "Killing Me Softly," and Kayne Wests's galvanizing "Jesus Walks." This BLOCK PARTY re-writes a host of rules about what a concert film can be, and it does it with enough love to spill out of the theater and into the neighborhood.
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- UPC: 025193031327
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