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Wattstax (2023)

February. 24,2023

7.7

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A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.

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Cast

Richard Pryor as Self

[2022] The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up [2019] I Am Richard Pryor [2014] Richard Pryor: Icon [2013] Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic [2007] Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s [2003] Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

Isaac Hayes as Self

[2015] Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief [2008] Return to Sleepaway Camp [2008] Kill Switch [2008] Soul Men [2005] Hustle & Flow [2005] Isaac Hayes: Live at Montreux

Melvin Van Peebles as Self

[2022] Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood [2021] Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking [2018] Armed [2013] Peeples [2011] The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 [2011] Redemption Road

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Reviews

Karry

2023/02/24

Best movie of this year hands down!

SunnyHello

2023/02/25

Nice effects though.

Zandra

2023/02/26

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Darin

2023/02/27

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.