To follow up his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson turned his focus on one of the landmark acts ...

Questlove, David Tedeschi, Thom Zimny and Laurent Bouzereau talk about their music docs The post How Documentary Filmmakers ...

Even with that weighty theme, “Sly Lives” is one of the most engaging and far-reaching music documentaries this writer has seen, and taken as a whole, it may be the best. The broader theme may ...

Hopefully, that's what I want people to learn.” Thompson and fellow director Oz Rodriguez miraculously touch on dozens of the ...

Questlove's second documentary levels up from "Summer of Soul," exploring Sly Stone's life and legacy in a kaleidoscopic and profound way. Jammed with penetrating interviews and extraordinary ...

But pay attention to the movie’s title, as well as the “a.k.a.” that follows it. Sly Lives! — that exclamation point is earned — knows it doesn’t need to sell you on dancin’ to the ...

Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius) has two things going on, the first being a celebration of a genius singer-songwriter-producer who never really made it into the pantheon of greats.

So on Thursday, with the 9:30 p.m. MT premiere of Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) at Park City’s sure to be sold-out Eccles Theatre, it’s will be a whole new Sundance for the ...

Sundance: Questlove's follow-up to “Summer of Soul” fails to live up to its ambitious framework. With his new film “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” Questlove expands upon the ...

That’s also because the 82-year-old Stone wasn’t interviewed for the movie. “Sly Lives!” is fundamentally more concerned with his impact and influence on other artists — one sequence ...

While Sly himself didn’t participate ... a narrative that puts its emphasis on the past few erratic decades. The ‘lives’ part isn’t used lightly here, and speaks less to the fact that ...

This movie, “Sly Lives!,” tells Stone’s life as one of those “… and then it all fell apart” stories. Ahmir Thompson, the director better known as Questlove, proceeds with more care ...