Menu
Location
606 Fawcett Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402 Get Directions
Location

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Little Richard: I Am Everything
Documentary, Music | 2023 | NR. 1hr 38min
CAST: Little Richard, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger DIRECTOR: Lisa Cortes TUESDAY FILM SERIES | 4/21/23

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.


Movie
Reviews
Cortés’s devotion to creating a film in honor and respect of Little Richard is also one of achievement and understanding for those who have been marginalized for being who they are.
Sabina Dana Plasse, Film Threat
© 2024 . All rights reserved. Site Designed by SiteCrafting.
SavetheGrandPopup