Topic: Kasi Lemmons
Talk to Me is a 2007 dramatic film about the life of Ralph " Petey" Greene, a Washington DC radio host and community activist who broadcast through the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968 . The film, directed by ...
Kasi Lemmons is an American film director and actress. St. Louis , Missouri Raised in Massachusetts Performed in Boston Children's Theatre as a child Had supporting roles in the films; The Silence of the Lambs and Candyman Has two children with spouse ...
Talk to Me
(3 stars)
Kasi
Lemmons
. 118 minutes. Rated R.
Don
Cheadle
,
Chiwetel
Ejiofor
,
Taraji P.
Henson
,
Martin
Sheen
. Directed by
Lemmons
and the screenwriters don't really deviate from the expected formula, right down to the montages set to period ...
8 a.m. Eliot Spitzer hosts a breakfast for attendees of the Somos El Futuro Conference, in Puerto Rico. 11 a.m. Erik Dilan presents $9 million for green buildings projects, at 203 Arlington Avenue, in Brooklyn. 11:30 a.m. The ...
This should have been a much better film. It is the fictionalised story of Ralph "Petey" Green, an ex-con in the Washington of the Sixties who became a famous radio jock by trying to tell it like it was in tumultuous times ...
Out this week on DVD, Kasi Lemmons' exuberant Talk To Me ranks as the most overlooked film of the year. We can only hope that Don Cheadle will receive an Oscar nomination to get this film the audience it deserves.
Talk to Me hearkens back to the days when radio disc jockeys served as credible sources of political and regional information-as well as pivotal mouthpieces for various causes and groups. One of the most memorable DJ's was Washington D.C.'s ...
