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The review. As far as music eccentrics go, it's hard to find a better documentary subject than Lee "Scratch" Perry, the man who pioneered reggae music and invented its offshoot dub in Jamaica in...
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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Steve Erickson Nashville Scene. Alas, the filmmakers never thought to talk to other reggae musicians who worked in a similar vein: They're content to...
Mar 22, 2023 · Capturing Perry in latter-day interviews (Lee passed away in August of 2021) and digging up rare, vintage footage of the producer and toaster in action in Kingston, in drunken retirement in London, and in marital bliss in Switzerland, The Upsetter is, finally, Scratch full circle.
Mar 17, 2008 · /Film Rating: 5.5 out of 10. Written and directed by Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, The Upsetter promises, with more than a bit of hyperbole, to document Jamaican music pioneer Lee...
Feb 26, 2024 · The documentary about his life, Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough’s The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, covers all this, cliches and all. Music *does* help unite the world in some capacity, and this documentary reinforces that.
The Upsetter starts as the story of a young man named Rainford Hugh Perry who, after a musical epiphany while breaking rocks as a construction worker, left his hometown of Kendal to find the bright lights of Kingston and break into the record industry.
Jul 31, 2008 · Movie Reviews. The Upsetter. The uneven results provide a useful introduction to a seminal and still underappreciated figure. By The Associated Press. July 31, 2008 9:00pm....
