Gregory Isaacs Movies
- 1997
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Electrifying' Sting #1: Reggae Live '97 is a concert film featuring performances from a diverse lists of artists including Gregory Isaccs, George Nooks, Junior Reid, Busta Rhymes, and others. A companion title Electrifying' Sting #2: Reggae Live '97 is also available. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- 1987
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Music Video Distributors presents this concert film starring musician Gregory Isaacs. Filmed in 1987, Gregory Isaacs: Live in San Francisco includes renditions of such songs as "Private Beach Party," "Sad to Know You're Leaving," "Cool Down the Pace," and "Border." ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- 1983
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First filmed at the 1983 Reggae Sunsplash Festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica, this musical documentary is likely to keep audiences moving along with the beat of its reggae artists. Among the musicians and groups featured are Rita Marley, Gil Scott-Heron, Gregory Isaacs, and Third World. The stage performances and the scanning of audience reactions are supplemented with backstage interviews. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rita Marley
In this documentary on the Rastafarians in Jamaica (homeland of the Rastafari par excellence -- the late Bob Marley), director Alan Greenberg interviews some Jamaicans whose conversations suggest that the smoking of ganja, the worship of Haile Selassie (the former Ethiopian emperor) as a god, and the goal of Jamaican self-realization is their own kind of unified field theory. A young, poverty-stricken teenager listens to the reggae music on his radio as though it will magically lead him to a better future, and a pineapple cutter living in the "baddest" area of the island dreams of fomenting tourism in his exotic surroundings. The May, 1981 funeral of Marley himself brought Christian and Rastafarian beliefs together in tribute to the island's hero, providing one of the most poignant vignettes in the Land of Look Behind. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gregory Isaacs, Mutabaruka, (more)
Rockers was made after the the stunning success of the independently made 1972 hit The Harder They Come, which introduced North Americans to reggae music and the Rastafarian lives of many Jamaicans. In the story, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, who has been a drummer in reggae bands, decides to try and give his fellow musicians an even break by becoming a record distributor. When local gangsters rip him off and stop his budding music venture cold, his fellow musicians decide to rob the robbers. Practically everyone in this film, beginning with its star, were reggae musicians who were well known in Jamaica. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, (more)
Essential Reggae features live performances by a number of popular musical artists who play in that durable genre. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gregory Isaacs, Ruddy Thomas, (more)
