In his third documentary outing, the director of "Summer of Soul" and "Sly Lives!" captures Earth, Wind & Fire's joy by putting us right inside the music.
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Courtesy of Tribeca Festival From the moment he unleashed “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” it was clear that Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson was a born documentary filmmaker. But there’s a special quality to Questlove’s music films that only emerged fully in his second one, “Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius).” And I felt it even more stirringly in “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That’s the Weight of the World),” the Questlove jawn that opened the Tribeca Festival tonight on a note of rousingly nostalgic but timeless joy.
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