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Passing Strange is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young African American's journey of self-discovery as an artist, while combining strong existentialist and meta-fictional elements (especially self-referential humor).
Aug 20, 2009 · “Passing Strange: The Movie” immerses the viewer at once in the story and the process of performance, emphasizing the play’s fidelity to emotional facts.
- Spike Lee
Passing Strange: Directed by Spike Lee, Annie Dorsen. With Stew, De'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo. Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
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- Documentary, Musical
- Spike Lee, Annie Dorsen
- 2009-01-20
Aug 18, 2009 · Rousing, devastating, invigorating, painful, joyful, soulful—all those adjectives don’t even begin to describe Passing Strange, but it’s a start. Composer-performer Stew’s gut-busting ...
In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his...
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- Musical
- Spike Lee
Aug 19, 2009 · “Passing Strange” is one of the best musicals I’ve seen. It tells the story of a young black man from Los Angeles, rebelling against a loving, church-going family and breaking out on his own in the late 1960s to follow the call of art, or “art,” to Amsterdam and Berlin.
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Aug 20, 2009 · In rethinking the Tony-winning 2008 rock musical Passing Strange for the screen, director Spike Lee made sure to do the right thing: not fuck up what worked like gangbusters onstage.
