Dave Chappelle's Block Party (aka Block Party) is a documentary film hosted and written by comedian Dave Chappelle, and directed by Michel Gondry. Its format is inspired by the documentary Wattstax.
The film and its soundtrack are dedicated to the memory of music producer J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey), who died from lupus one month before the film's release. An incomplete version of Block Party was shown prior to its official release at the 2005 ...
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Dave Chappelle's Block Party (aka Block Party) is a documentary film hosted and written by comedian Dave Chappelle, and directed by Michel Gondry. Its format is inspired by the documentary Wattstax.
The film and its soundtrack are dedicated to the memory of music producer J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey), who died from lupus one month before the film's release. An incomplete version of Block Party was shown prior to its official release at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film follows Chappelle during the summer of 2004, up until September 18, 2004, when he threw a block party on the corner of Quincy Street and Downing Street in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The film features nearby sites including the Broken Angel House in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn as well as areas in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The film was produced before Chappelle's highly-publicized decision to walk away from a $50 million deal to continue his hit Chappelle's Show, and...
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