96 mins |
Rated
R (for strong violence, language, sexuality and drug use)
Directed by Hype Williams
Starring Nas ., Taral Hicks, DMX , Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, Method Man
Belly
(Hype Williams, 1998, 96 min)
Wed July 19, 10:30 pm
“Fuck a book,” says star DMX, and indeed this is post-verbal filmmaking, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Belly opens with a blacklight nightclub stickup set to a capella vocal gymnastics, and director Hype Williams (auteur of shiny-suit-era Bad Boy music videos) doesn't allow a routine frame past the velvet rope in his sui generis, Alizé-and-mushrooms swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.
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Belly
(Hype Williams, 1998, 96 min)
Wed July 19, 10:30 pm
“Fuck a book,” says star DMX, and indeed this is post-verbal filmmaking, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Belly opens with a blacklight nightclub stickup set to a capella vocal gymnastics, and director Hype Williams (auteur of shiny-suit-era Bad Boy music videos) doesn't allow a routine frame past the velvet rope in his sui generis, Alizé-and-mushrooms swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.
