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Jeffrey Levy-Hintea s concert film Soul Power can be viewed as the warm-up act to the Oscar-winning 1996 documentary When We Were Kings .

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Kitsap A&E YAHOO! Kitsap A&E MOVIES: 'Soul Power' is No a Woodstock,a But It's Pretty Good REVIEW *** out of **** 'Soul Power' Rated: PG-13 Running time: 1:33 Director: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte Showing: Rose MOVIEWEB.COM James Brown is just one of the performers who light things up during "Soul Power." In 1974, a three-day soul music festival, featuring ...

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Soul Power, a look at a 35-year-old summit of soul music that was supposed to coincide with the famous Muhammad Ali-George Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" in what was then Zaire, Africa, is perhaps the most interesting new movie opening in Arkansas this week.

'Soul Power' to the people Soul Power , Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's acclaimed documentary about the 1974 concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, featuring James Brown, is like stepping into a really cool time capsule.

Despite a tantalizingly choosy use of footage from the event it chronicles, Soul Power is an exceptional feature film.

The footage assembled for Soul Power by director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte was shot by four cameramen, including the pioneering Albert Maysles, and it reflects Maysles' "direct cinema" movement, that philosophy of keeping documentaries immersed in the moment.

Miriam Makeba performed at Zaire 74. 'James Brown was outrageous. That's James Brown, man.

Rating: 7 It's a previously unseen snapshot of music history: the ambitious, three-day African-American music festival in Kinshasa, Zaire, that was chock-full of talent though ultimately overshadowed by the "Rumble in the Jungle" title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Rating: 7 It's a previously unseen snapshot of music history: the ambitious, three-day African-American music festival in Kinshasa, Zaire, that was chock-full of talent though ultimately overshadowed by the "Rumble in the Jungle" title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Bandslam High schoolers team up and compete in a battle of bands. Alyson Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, and Gaelan Connell star.

Rating: 7 It's a previously unseen snapshot of music history: the ambitious, three-day African-American music festival in Kinshasa, Zaire, that was chock-full of talent though ultimately overshadowed by the "Rumble in the Jungle" title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Performances by groups like the Spinners score something of a knockout themselves.

Director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte talks about his documentary "Soul Power," about the 1974 music festival timed to the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire that united African musicians and black American musicians, including James Brown.

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I've heard the arguments against this out-of-the-vault concert film, capturing the frantic planning and glorious execution of the three-day music festival "Zaire '74." Not enough political or ethnographic context; too plain-Jane in the presentation; not nearly enough about the festival's relationship to its sister act, the '74 Muhammad Ali/George ...