Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
'Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown' is a look at the music career of musician James Brown which begins with his first hit song, 'Please, Please, Please,' in 1956.
4 July 1943, Mobile, Alabama, USA
27 September 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 July 1897, Selma, Alabama, USA
7 June 1958, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
28 September 1901, New York City, New York, USA
31 May 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
21 January 1965, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1912, Ely, Nevada, USA
14 February 1943, Kinston, North Carolina, USA
8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
29 April 1899, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
3 October 1954, Brooklyn, New York, USA
29 January 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
26 October 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
14 July 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
27 May 1911, Wallace, South Dakota, USA
29 February 1916, Winchester, Tennessee, USA
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
4 October 1943, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
21 April 1941, Bradenton, Florida, USA
12 October 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
11 August 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 May 1964, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
October 27, 2014
There's so much to the Brown story that focus becomes an issue in a film like Alex Gibney's "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown." How do you capture the hardest working man in show business in just two hours?
November 03, 2014
His fans will also get a kick out watching him sing, dance, and showboat as only he knew how to do. But if you don't care for the singer or his music, chances are that you'll lose interest in it before it's over.
October 27, 2014
While this doc certainly could've used more texture, and sometimes races along like a cinematic Wikipedia entry, Gibney accomplishes his task at hand, showing exactly why Brown has had the ability to "stay on the scene" for decades, and decades to come.
October 27, 2014
Alex Gibney's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown is an assured threading-of-the-needle, slowly working its way to the sweet spot where the man and the legend overlap.
October 27, 2014
A documentary film on the life and times of James Brown as the times made the music and the music shaped the times, it is a long, soulful scream over an insistent funky vamp.
October 26, 2014
Mr. Dynamite is a strikingly varied and substantial portrait of an intensely complex artist.
October 27, 2014
This is a smart, informative and compassionate look at the artist known as the Godfather of Soul, whose music changed America.
October 27, 2014
People make documentaries about musicians all the time, and some of them are rich with insight. But even among the best of the bunch, few are as thorough about the artist's music as Alex Gibney's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown.
