{"id":18183,"date":"2025-12-07T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18183"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:26:08","slug":"dave-chappelles-block-party-2006-michel-gondry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18183","title":{"rendered":"Dave Chappelle&#8217;s Block Party (2006, Michel Gondry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last movies I watched in theaters before starting this blog.  Rewatching now because I read the great J Dilla book and am working my way through a list* of related artists.  At the peak of his fame and success, Chappelle&#8217;s vanity project keeps alternating between music performances on the day, and his interactions with the public.  Rewatching now I wish there was much more music and less Dave.  Each group gets about one song, which keeps being interrupted by host episodes.  This is a choice, not necessarily a defect &#8211; Gondry&#8217;s story is more about building this event and getting people excited about it, not a you-are-there concert film.  Questlove must have remembered this movie once or twice when working on <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14411\">Summer of Sou<\/a>l<\/em>.  Filmed when Dave was at the top of fame, released a year later when he was in the news for walking away from his sketch show, and he&#8217;s had nothing but rocky press since then (along with then-rising young star K*nye W*st, bittersweet to see both of them here).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/blockparty1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>*A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, D&#8217;Angelo, The Pharcyde, Raekwon, Busta Rhymes, Fugees, Common, Erykah Badu, Slum Village, 5-Elementz, Talib Kweli &#038; Mos Def, MF Doom, The Roots, Jill Scott, Ghostface Killah, Bilal, Madlib, Robert Glasper, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Hiatus Kaiyote, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, David Fiuczynski, Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/blockparty2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last movies I watched in theaters before starting this blog. Rewatching now because I read the great J Dilla book and am working my way through a list* of related artists. At the peak of his fame and success, Chappelle&#8217;s vanity project keeps alternating between music performances on the day, and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1599,88,2073],"class_list":["post-18183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-concert","tag-michel-gondry","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18209,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183\/revisions\/18209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}