Trailer
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Sun
17
Sun 17 Nov 3:30 PM
Cinema Nova - Cinema 8
Wheelchair
Open Captioned
Allocated Seating
102 Mins | USA
From The Beatles to Bowie to Billy Porter, a grand cavalcade of stars credits the indelible starlight shimmer of Little Richard for helping pave the way for them to shine. A galaxy-brained talent with a startling voice and the smooth moves to match his pizzazz-filled piano playing, the musician born in Macon, Georgia, did not doubt his innate talents. “Y’all ain’t never gave me no Grammy ... I am the architect of rock ‘n’ roll”, he archly declared while presenting at the 1988 ceremony. Everyone from the Pope of Trash, John Waters, to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger bows down in Lisa Cortés’ illuminating, toe-tapping documentary. Acknowledging just how far ahead of his time the mercurial, often contradictory Richard Wayne Penniman was, it shows how he twinkled far too bright for a music industry unsure what to make of his magnificent queerness, in every sense of the word, though that too was in flux. This fabulous filmic tribute is long overdue.
Includes an introduction by Darryl W. Bullock, author of David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music.