Sat February 20, 2016
#NP2016 FILM SERIES + SF INDIEFEST - SYL JOHNSON: ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS
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Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch
DIRECTOR: Rob Hatch-Miller
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA 2015
RUNNING TIME: 85 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Velvet-voiced soul singer Syl Johnson struggled for decades before leaving the music business in the 1980s to open a Chicago fried-fish chain. But with the dawn of hip hop came the unexpected, widespread embrace of his 1967 song “Different Strokes” – sampled by artists as diverse as Run-DMC, Michael Jackson, the Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, En Vogue, Usher and Kanye West, among many others – and new opportunities for the savvy performer emerged. With a lively soundtrack and an original score by Yo La Tengo, this buoyant documentary celebrates one man who can’t stop the music.
*Filmmaker and Syl Johnson in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
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DIRECTOR: Rob Hatch-Miller
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA 2015
RUNNING TIME: 85 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Velvet-voiced soul singer Syl Johnson struggled for decades before leaving the music business in the 1980s to open a Chicago fried-fish chain. But with the dawn of hip hop came the unexpected, widespread embrace of his 1967 song “Different Strokes” – sampled by artists as diverse as Run-DMC, Michael Jackson, the Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, En Vogue, Usher and Kanye West, among many others – and new opportunities for the savvy performer emerged. With a lively soundtrack and an original score by Yo La Tengo, this buoyant documentary celebrates one man who can’t stop the music.
*Filmmaker and Syl Johnson in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch
DIRECTOR: Rob Hatch-Miller
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA 2015
RUNNING TIME: 85 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Velvet-voiced soul singer Syl Johnson struggled for decades before leaving the music business in the 1980s to open a Chicago fried-fish chain. But with the dawn of hip hop came the unexpected, widespread embrace of his 1967 song “Different Strokes” – sampled by artists as diverse as Run-DMC, Michael Jackson, the Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, En Vogue, Usher and Kanye West, among many others – and new opportunities for the savvy performer emerged. With a lively soundtrack and an original score by Yo La Tengo, this buoyant documentary celebrates one man who can’t stop the music.
*Filmmaker and Syl Johnson in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
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DIRECTOR: Rob Hatch-Miller
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA 2015
RUNNING TIME: 85 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Velvet-voiced soul singer Syl Johnson struggled for decades before leaving the music business in the 1980s to open a Chicago fried-fish chain. But with the dawn of hip hop came the unexpected, widespread embrace of his 1967 song “Different Strokes” – sampled by artists as diverse as Run-DMC, Michael Jackson, the Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, En Vogue, Usher and Kanye West, among many others – and new opportunities for the savvy performer emerged. With a lively soundtrack and an original score by Yo La Tengo, this buoyant documentary celebrates one man who can’t stop the music.
*Filmmaker and Syl Johnson in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
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