Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: MVD3032D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 760137303299
- Street Date: 01/17/20
- PreBook Date: 12/13/19
- Label: MVD Visual »
- Genre: R & B
- Run Time: 54 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2017
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA & UK
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Betty Davis as Herself
- Mike Canton as Himself, host of The Soul Show, WYEP-FM
- Oliver Wang as Himself, music critic and DJ
- Director: Phil Cox
- Producer: Giovanna Stopponi
- Producer: Laurent Mini
- Producer: Damon Smith
- Producers: Giovanna Stopponi
- Producers: Laurent Mini
- Producers: Damon Smith
Product Assets
Betty Davis - Betty: They Say I'm Different
Before Beyoncé, Madonna and Prince - there was Betty Davis
- List Price: $19.95
- Your Price: $19.95
- In Stock: 157
You must login to place orders.
Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She "was the first..." as former husband Miles Davis said. "Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince". An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the 70's scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles - startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named "Bitches Brew". She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself. Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then suddenly - she vanished. Creatively blending documentary and animation this movie traces the path of Betty's life, how she grew from humble upbringings to become a fully self-realized black female pioneer the world failed to understand or appreciate. After years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free-spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers to creatively tell her story based on their conversations.
Media
Track Listing
|
Bonus Materials
- Director Interview: Phil Cox on the making of Betty - They Say I'm Different
- Interview Extract with Betty Davis
Sales Points
- Redbull Music Festival 2018
- Melbourne International Jazz Fest 2019
- For fans of Miles Davis, Parliament-Funkadelic, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, Sly & the Family Stone, Ohio Players, Bettye LaVette, Bootsy Collins, Prince, Herbie Hancock
- Comparable to films like Whitney: Can I Be Me, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, 20 Feet from Stardom, Searching for Sugar Man
- Way Out West 2018
- CPH:DOX 2018
- Pop Montréal 2018
- IDFA 2017
Press Quotes
Astonishing and tantalising
—Neil Kulkarni, The Wire
Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over.
—Jon Pareles, The New York Times
Gritty funk, progressive sexual politics and eye-popping imagery of a criminally under-valued talent from the '70s.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard
Honoring the beauty of the artist's enigmatic aura and elusiveness...offering us finally an alternative way to contemplate black women's musicianship without trafficking in tragedy or unveiling privacy.
—Daphne A. Brooks, Los Angeles Review Of Books
A beautiful sizzling & sweaty film
—CPH:DOX
Betty was a free spirit...talented as a motherfucker.
—Miles Davis, Miles - The Autobiography