Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary. So “Sly Lives!” is a few different things at ...
The filmmaker also talks about how he painstakingly captured half a century of ‘Saturday Night Live’ singing performances in directing his new doc. By Ethan Millman Music Editor If there’s a word that ...
The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made “culture-changing hits,” in the words of no less a figure than record mogul Clive Davis.
For the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our recent interview with Questlove. His documentary, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), examines Sly Stone's enormous impact on music — and the ...
Questlove’s next film is about Earth, Wind, and Fire — and he’s hoping to put it out in September, for obvious reasons. - Credit: Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria ...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is well on his way to becoming an EGOT winner. He already has an Oscar for Best Documentary for Summer of Soul, and he has six Grammys. Now he is hoping to grab an Emmy for ...
While documentaries with Elton John, Bono, Dua Lipa and Céline Dion had to settle for single Emmy nominations, and Bruce Springsteen’s doc was shut out entirely, musician and filmmaker Ahmir ...
*Questlove is speaking openly about a deeply personal topic that has lingered in the background of his life for years. During a December 28 episode of his iHeartRadio show, the Roots drummer reflected ...
“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that’s articulated in the Hulu documentary by Dream Hampton: ...
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