There’s a very special event happening next week in memory of Perry Henzell (who died in 2006), the celebrated director “The Harder They Come”. It’s a double feature screening with Perry’s until recently thought to be lost follow-up “No Place Like Home”. It’s also a celebration of the star of the film, Jimmy Cliff, and [...]
(Picture from the Vice Article)
Be sure to pick up the new issue of Vice Magazine (if you can) which I think has run an outstanding in-depth article with Theodoros Bafaloukos, writer and director of that wonderful little film called Rockers, “the film that single-handedly made Jamaica and reggae interesting to couch-cozy white folks, their stoner [...]
I’m sure regular reggae-philes and regular readers of this blog are well aware of the famed Jamaican outlaw Ivanhoe ‘Rhygin’ Martin. He was of course the inspiration for the now classic film “The Harder They Come” starring Jimmy Cliff as a loosely based Ivanhoe Martin. It was also turned into a musical last year as [...]
One of the most highly regarded cult British films of the 1980s, Babylon comes to DVD for the first time ever in the UK this October courtesy of Icon Home Entertainment, boasting fully restored and remastered image and audio (personally overseen by Chris Menges) plus Audio Commentaries, Interviews and feature on the restoration.
Directed by Franco [...]
Jimmy Cliff’s classic movie “The Harder They Come” has been turned into a musical. It actually looks pretty faithful to the movie although not as dark of course. This will probably never in a million years make it to the states in anyway but one can hope of course.
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