Been out now in the Usa for a few weeks, its showing in London on the 6th February. Reported as having won a skipful of film awards already and now also has two major Oscar 2015 nominations - The Best Picture and Best Original Song!
Heres the brass...
A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
After seeking the help of President Lyndon B. Johnson and being refused, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders led marches from Selma to the Capitol building in Montgomery in March 1965. The first march, now known as "Bloody Sunday", took marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and into brutal treatment at the hands of the police and others, hospitalizing seventeen. Despite the hatred, the marchers returned to the bridge two days later in peaceful response. In the weeks that followed, the marchers, now protected by armed forces, reached Montgomery where Dr. King gave his famous "How Long, Not Long" speech.
99% on Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/selma/
UK Trailer
Feature Video
DVD version reported as out May 2015
Soundtrack listing - format mp3 download only at moment? see the link at the bottom to preview/purchase all tracks
1 GLORY - COMMON & JOHN LEGEND
2 OLE MAN TROUBLE - OTIS REDDING
3 I'VE GOT THE NEW WORLD IN MY VIEW - SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN
4 KEEP ON PUSHING - THE IMPRESSIONS
5 ONE MORNING SOON - JOYCE COLLINS & JOHNITA COLLINS
6 ALABAMA BLUES - J.B. LENOIR
7 WALK WITH ME - MARTHA BASS
8 HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - DUANE EDDY
9 TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD - 2 LEDISI
10 YESTERDAY WAS HARD ON ALL OF US - FINK
11 CAGER LEE - JASON MORAN
12 FINAL SPEECH - JASON MORAN
13 BLOODY SUNDAY PARTS 1-3 - JASON MORAN
Selma 's original song “Glory” earned John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn received their first nomination.
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Mike Hughes is the proud owner and admin of Soul Source which he started up back in 1997. His soul journey started in the mid 1970s and has continued to the present day, along the way enjoying all eras and aspects of soul, events, dj-ing, promoting, writing and looking after Soul Source. Nowadays though his main thrust is simply enjoying life with his wife and family. And his long time personal motto has recently been updated to.. 'No one ever said it was going to be easy..., but it can be'
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