Little Richard - I Am Everything

"A Film by Lisa Cortes"

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator the originator Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richards complicated inner world, the film unspools the icons life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes he was unabashedly everything.

Details

Format: DVD
Genre: Documentary, Music
Rating: M
Release Date: 06 03 2024
Production Year: 2023
Distributor: 101
Directors: English
Rating Advice: Sexual References
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Directors: Lisa Cortes

Actors: Little Richard, Ralph Harper, Newt Collier, Charles 'Bud' Penniman, Muriel Jackson, Zandria Robinson, Billy Vera, Billy Porter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Nona Hendryx, Valerie June, Stanley Stewart, Ma Rainey, Fredara Hadley, Jason King, Billy Wright, Libby Anthony, Esquerita, Charles Connor, Lloyd Price, Arthur Rupe, Robert 'Bumps' Blackwell, Cosimo Matassa, Red Tyler, Earl Palmer, Dorothy La Bostrie, Cory Henry, Chuck Berry, Alan Freed, John Waters, Elvis Presley, Sir Lady Java, Pat Boone, Tavia Nyong'o, Ike Turner, Brother Joe May, The Clara Ward Gospel Singers, Clara Ward, Marion Williams, Ruth Brown, Fats Domino, La Vern Baker, Bo Diddley, Tom Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lee Angel, DeWitt Williams, Keith Winslow, Ernestine Penniman, Sounds Incorporated, Tony Newman, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Billy Preston, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, John P. Kee, Ashon Crawley, John Branca, Ramon Hervey, David Bowie, Nile Rodgers, Charles Glenn, Morris Roberts, Keith Richards, Bad Brains, James Brown, Dick Clark, Fishbone, Living Colour, The Beatles, Bon Jovi, Boy George, Cher, Norwood Fisher, Arsenio Hall, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Rick James, Elton John, Brian Jones, Led Zeppelin, Annie Lennox, David Letterman, Liberace, Lizzo, Bruno Mars, Freddie Mercury, Angelo Moore, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joan Rivers, RuPaul, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart