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Spike Lee announces Off The Wall Documentary - Estate Announcement Page 66

Your login is gonna be your google ID email, and your password ...well, I had to reset mine because it wasn't my iTunes password (i signed up via Apple).

On the website where you sign in, click Forgot Password. Enter the email for your android/google account, and then reset it via the e-mail they send you.

This should fix that!
 
Russell Okamoto &#8207;<s>@</s>rokamo <small class="time"> 28m28 minutes ago </small> #1979 was amazing <s>#</s>OffTheWall <s>#</s>JoyDivision <s>#</s>MagicBird <s>#</s>DeerHunter <s>#</s>Alien <s>#</s>ESPN <s>#</s>Voyager <s>#</s>Jupiter <s>#</s>TotalEclipse <s>#</s>Walkman <s>#</s>CellularNetwork

What's On Nation? &#8207;<s>@</s>NationRadioLive <small class="time"> 25m25 minutes ago </small>
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall <s>#</s>nowplaying

Uniquely Philly &#8207;<s>@</s>uniquelyphilly <small class="time"> 20m20 minutes ago </small>
<s>#</s>OffTheWall is trending on Twitter in <s>#</s>philly

Priest Forever &#8207;<s>@</s>priestforever <small class="time"> 18m18 minutes ago </small>
Thank you <s>@</s>spikelee for doing an AMAZING job on "From Motown To Off The Wall" and making it about THE MUSIC! <s>#</s>weneedtotellourownstories

William Harrison &#8207;<s>@</s>PlatinumboyKing <small class="time"> 38m38 minutes ago </small> Helena, AR
I remember back when I was in high school, I had brought Michael Jackson's Off The Wall CD and every song on the album was pure perfection

Blair &#8207;<s>@</s>EdwardBlairII <small class="time"> 48m48 minutes ago </small>
I think people forget how incredible off the wall really is but s/o to <s>@</s>SpikeLee for the new documentary on MJ and that album! <s>#</s>KingOfPop

Susaye Greene &#8207;<s>@</s>susaye <small class="time"> 48m48 minutes ago </small>
Stevie Wonder, <s>@</s>Susaye, <s>@</s>SpikeLee's documentary "Michael Jackson Journey From Motown To Off The Wall". On the set.

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OBEAH by Sooklal &#8207;<s>@</s>boudicon <small class="time"> 53m53 minutes ago </small>
Listening to Off The Wall. Rock With You and I Can't Help It....man listen

brownbeauty &#8207;<s>@</s>BrownBeautyTalk <small class="time"> 60m60 minutes ago </small>
Ooh just heard about this new <s>@</s>spikelee project. Michael Jackson from Motown to Off the Wall,&#8230; https://www.instagram.com/p/BBcGjpLSwiw/

Mary Beth Hunt &#8207;<s>@</s>marybethhunt <small class="time"> 1h1 hour ago </small>
Mary Beth Hunt Retweeted Michael Jackson
You guys....for those of us who grew up with his music....this <s>@</s>michaeljackson special is <s>#</s>OffTheWall
 
OnirMJ said:
It's complicated. Very complicated. It's been discussed in length 10-20 pages back. You can check it out. But the summary is that we can't possibly know if the Estate have any show in full in releasable audio and video quality and if they do, if they have all the legal rights to release it as there are currently lawsuits against Michael Jackson's Estate involving Randy Jackson and Quincy Jones. The point is we know nothing and we can only guess.
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But you can see the brothers in the live clips in the documentary. I'm sure they could release a full show if they can use the footage.
 
Was a very interesting documentary to say the least very insightful I should say. Enjoyed every minute of it. Two of my idols MJ and Kobe made it a ton better
 
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But you can see the brothers in the live clips in the documentary. I'm sure they could release a full show if they can use the footage.
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It's possible some/all of MJ's brothers only authorised use for the documentary, not for anything else.

Even then, if they were to release a full concert, they'd need to get permission once again unless it was covered in the licensing agreement signed for this doco.
 
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Just watched the Spike Lee Doc on Michael Jackson. I danced all the way through. What a genius. Miss you, Mike!


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A new documentary about Michael Jackson's hit album "Off the Wall" is getting outstanding reviews.

It's airing Friday night on Showtime. It'll be released February 26 as part of a CD/DVD reissue of "Off the Wall."

What's your favorite song from that album? I'm going with Rock with You.


[h=5]Terry Lenard Jones<a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/terry.l.jones.39/posts/10206414229699439" target=""><abbr title="Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 7:34am" data-utime="1454740481" data-shorten="1" class="_5ptz timestamp livetimestamp">
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In light of a movie being made with Michael Jackson being played by a white actor. This is a welcoming dose of reality. Hats off to Spike Lee


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I reviewed Spike Lee's terrific Michael Jackson documentary for YahooTV; I well-remember going to the 1981 L.A. Forum "Triumph Tour" shows that are included here. Michael, then straining against the push-pull of brotherhood vs. ambition, was glorious.


[h=5]Mike Hale[/h]<a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/mikehalenyc/posts/10153761138576253" target=""><abbr title="Friday, February 5, 2016 at 12:46am" data-utime="1454629609" data-shorten="1" class="_5ptz">Yesterday at 12:46am</abbr> · The New York Times



My review of Spike Lee's documentary -- make that tribute -- to Michael Jackson and "Off the Wall." Do you know where you were when you first heard "Out of My Life"? Apparently a lot of people do.


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Watched it loved it!!!!
 
AtlasAir said:
Probably didn't see the need for it, as you can just get whatever that last vinyl reissue there was. Most people wouldn't get that vinyl with the doc i guess.
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OTW was last reissued on vinyl in the USA in 1980. In other words it's hard to find!
 
Eric said:
OTW was last reissued on vinyl in the USA in 1980. In other words it's hard to find!
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New pressings have been, just not in the USA. I don't know where they're pressed (they had the Music on Vinyl sticker), but I've seen quite a few new copies of OTW in shops here. Regardless, I'm sure you could buy a second hand in great condition at your local record store! :)
 
Film Review: &#8216;Michael Jackson&#8217;s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall&#8217;

Spike Lee follows up 'Bad 25' with a bouncily entertaining, celeb-filled doc account of how Michael Jackson survived disco.

Nearly seven years after Michael Jackson&#8217;s premature passing, the world has probably gleaned as much as it ever will about the personal, physical and sexual curiosities of the posthumously reigning King of Pop; his enduringly influential artistry, however, remains ripe for renewed appreciation and appraisal. Leading the charge on this front is Spike Lee, who brings evidently profound personal affection and diligent research instincts to the inelegantly but self-explanatorily titled &#8220;Michael Jackson&#8217;s Journey From Motown to Off to Wall.&#8221; Corraling a wealth of talking heads &#8212; ranging from family members to essential collaborators to Rosie Perez &#8212; to examine Jackson&#8217;s transition from preternatural boy-band member to supernatural solo star, this bouncily entertaining doc may boast only a notch more formal ambition than a very well-assembled &#8220;Behind the Music&#8221; special, but is no less essential than Lee&#8217;s first MJ opus, the excellent &#8220;Bad 25.&#8221;

Like &#8220;Bad 25,&#8221; Lee&#8217;s latest finally amounts to an anatomy of a specific album &#8212; in this case, &#8220;Off the Wall,&#8221; the complex, skittering disco-funk grooves of which, in the summer of 1979, announced the erstwhile Jackson 5 prodigy as a fully self-contained adult hitmaker. It may not have been Jackson&#8217;s solo debut &#8212; he had cut several records as a teen on the Motown label &#8212; but it was as emphatic a statement of arrival as any in the history of recorded pop. &#8220;I will be magic &#8230; I will study and look back on the whole world of entertainment and perfect it,&#8221; reads a diary entry by Jackson from the mid-&#8217;70s, unearthed by his estate manager Karen Langford. Such words may have reeked of misplaced hubris prior to &#8220;Off the Wall,&#8221; but the spring-loaded melodies and diamond-cut production of the album&#8217;s high-water singles betray an urge to dominate an art form through sheer immaculateness of execution.

Lee sets up this glittering self-invention by examining a period of considerably less assurance: The doc&#8217;s first half is concerned with the patchy growing pains of Jackson&#8217;s time in the fraternal harmony group that made him famous. After a stunning string of No. 1 hits in 1969 and 1970, the Jackson 5&#8217;s popularity ebbed and flowed, their subsequent releases earning them higher chart placings in the R&B ghetto than in the mainstream. By the time they left Motown in 1975 to sign with Epic Records, seeking more creative autonomy over their work, the rebranded Jacksons were viewed in the industry as a spent force, their cartoon tie-in TV series having eroded their credibility as a crossover pop act. Former Epic head Ron Alexenburg, one of several record-biz honchos rounded up by Lee, admits the contract was a reluctant one on the label&#8217;s part.

Much of the most fascinating material in Lee&#8217;s film unparcels in detail the construction and impact of songs that proved key career markers: The Jacksons&#8217; 1979 single &#8220;Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground),&#8221; with its auspiciously snaky piano line and modernist (&#8220;dissonant,&#8221; as one A&R man puts it) verse structure, earns a significant chunk of screen time, not least since it pre-empted the cool sonic sheen that &#8220;Off the Wall&#8221; would bring to the party six months later. Though the film&#8217;s soundtrack is rich with the fizzing final products &#8212; included in recorded form or via dynamite live performance excerpts &#8212; Lee also astutely includes a number of demo tracks, demonstrating the often narrow bridge between Jackson&#8217;s songwriting process and the production influence of such industry fixtures as Quincy Jones (whose jazz background, we&#8217;re told, made him an unpopular choice with label execs to helm &#8220;Off the Wall&#8221;) and Gamble & Huff.

The second half, meanwhile, echoes &#8220;Bad 25&#8217;s&#8221; track-by-track format of album review, with the final effect akin to that of lively, anecdote-laden liner notes. If it&#8217;s ultimately less effective here than in the previous film, that might be due to &#8220;Off the Wall&#8217;s&#8221; own structural shortcomings. Latter-day super-producer Mark Ronson &#8212; one of many contemporary music luminaries on hand to talk up Jackson&#8217;s creative legacy, including Pharrell Williams, the Weeknd and Esperanza Spalding &#8212; aptly describes describes the album&#8217;s uptempo A-side as &#8220;a DJ&#8217;s dream.&#8221; Lee duly takes his time examining the sonic innovations and developing creative signatures embedded in such immortal floor-fillers as opening track &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop &#8216;Til You Get Enough&#8221; &#8212; boasting the first appearance of Jackson&#8217;s iconic &#8220;woooh!&#8221; yelp, loftily but wittily described by one interviewee as his own &#8220;free at last&#8221; rallying cry &#8212; and &#8220;Rock With You.&#8221;

Lee can&#8217;t, however, even feign equal interest in the album&#8217;s ballad-heavy back-end: Such disposable cuts as the Paul McCartney cover &#8220;Girlfriend&#8221; and Carole Bayer Sager&#8217;s adult-contemporary treacle &#8220;It&#8217;s the Falling in Love&#8221; are glossed over with nary a second glance. If the new film finally feels less exhaustive and substantial than &#8220;Bad 25,&#8221; that&#8217;s because, in terms of bulk alone, it is: Despite its decade-long area of scrutiny bracketed in its title, &#8220;Michael Jackson&#8217;s Journey From Motown to Off to Wall&#8221; clocks in at just 93 minutes, nearly 40 minutes shorter than its predecessor.

While auds surely wouldn&#8217;t begrudge Lee a more deliberate wallow in the disco era, the volume of information and variety of perspectives that the helmer and his editor Ryan Denmark have nimbly marshaled into a single, fleetly paced overview is nonetheless impressive. A duller documentarian likely wouldn&#8217;t find time for such disarming asides as Rosie Perez&#8217;s recollection of teenage fangirls wishfully speculating as to the wept-over subject of &#8220;She&#8217;s Out of My Life&#8221;; a less methodical one mightn&#8217;t trace songwriter Tom Bahler&#8217;s personal backstory to the same song, initially considered for Frank Sinatra.

Like the most engaging archivists and analysts of pop culture, Lee takes equal interest in geeky factual minutiae and more expansive, subjective extrapolations of meaning. Beneath the overriding spirit of retrospective celebration lies a still-active current of consciousness about the unstable place of black artists in history and the opportunities created in their wake: Pharrell Williams, for one, admits that he wouldn&#8217;t have the mass-market career he enjoys now if not for the fire lit by &#8220;Off the Wall.&#8221; Lee has thus far done a most persuasive job of reasserting Jackson&#8217;s importance as a musical and social trailblazer from the seamier intrigue of his celebrity; with its bookending albums now authoritatively covered, one hopes he has his sights set on the pop blockbuster of 1982&#8217;s &#8220;Thriller&#8221; for equivalent treatment.

http://variety.com/2016/film/review...-to-off-the-wall-review-spike-lee-1201698366/
 
Is there any link streaming the documentary?? Where can I watch it ?? Anyone has any info?? Or did I miss it :(
 
This was just awesome Spike Lee did it again now he need to get Thriller.(y)

Their need to release some Victory Tours concerts i would love to see them.
 
I managed to watch it. It was sooooo good, especially the second part where the live performances started coming. Now I want a Triumph Tour release more than ever! It was so phenomenal!
 
According to twitter world it was a hit among people, and not only with us fans :clapping::tease::dancin::clap:

I cannot wait to see it:jump:
 
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@RodneyJerkins Thank you Mr. J- you said it right!! Off the Wall is just the beginning for new generation of Michael's fans coming !
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AtlasAir said:
K, so here's what I thought.
Really liked it. I knew a lot of the stories, but there was still a lot I wasn't aware of. All the archival footage and concert stuff was ACE.

I liked the choice of talking heads, though Kobe Bryant didn't seem like he belonged there. He was the odd man out. Sideah Garrets part was lolzy :D I could listen to her for days. I was surprised Spike actually appeared on film. Rosie Perez was great, too.

I'm glad that a huge chunk of the doc is dedicated to the motown days because it really is necessary to build up to the album. Also, it was necessary because there just isn't a ton of visual content for that era. Only 3 music videos and 4 of the songs were ever performed live. And since this was before he documented everything, there's no studio footage to fill time either.

Berry Gordy does not look as old as he probably should. Good on him!

My only critique really is that the last half of the album, Spike breezes through. Which is fine. Like I said, there's not much content to say about it. He has people who worked on those songs on, but the thing is, I wish he would have let those songs play on their own for 15 to 30 seconds with a photo montage. Instead, he has the people talking over the songs. It's fine for someone like me who knows the songs, but for those who might not be familiar with them, it would have been nice to have a quick snippet of those songs without people speaking over them.

I look forward to a Thriller doc. Definitely more visual content to work with...hopefully Paul McCartney makes an appearance...hopefully Say Say Say is mentioned...Victory tour material!
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I really enjoyed it, myself. But, knowing now that quite a bit was trimmed for Showtime, i'm left kinda pining for more lol. I can't help but feel that Spike left the doc open ended to sort of make way for a possible "Thriller" documentary in the future. I felt the opposite about Kobe's appearance. IMO, he most definitely served his purpose. There are some parallels between he and Michael, even though they met and became friendly long after his 4 solo albums. His remarks reinforce the fact that Mike was more than a natural talent, but a true student of his art, much like the young Kobe Bryant he met later on in life. He hit the nail on the head about the generation gap as well. I would've loved to have seen Magic Johnson as well. He traveled with the Jacksons during the Triumph Tour.
 
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Loved, loved, loved seeing this, especially the She's Out of My Life/Eddie Murphy bit :lol: and when he says, "I'm sorry I messed it up" at the end...:girl_in_love: I'll be watching again on DVD soon.
 
I have watched it now. All i can say is that I'm disapointed. Most of the time only talking and some videos.
the only new footage is a few snippets from performances. Thats all. No backstage footage like on bad 25.
Sorry, but i dont pay 42 dollars (+shipping) for a few snippets. Thats much to expensive. No no no.
 
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