Dark City Beneath the Beat

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Dark City Beneath the Beat

2020

1h 5m

Documentary

Music

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Baltimore club music revitalizes the city's close-knit community for the arts.

Stephen A. Russell

Time Out

TT is an adept filmmaker with a keen eye and ear for what makes music and the souls behind it sing, and she navigates entangled strands like a seasoned veteran.

Rated: 5/5

Aug 26, 2020

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Max Weiss

Baltimore Magazine

The dancing-filled with kicks and scissors and stepping so fast it sometimes looks like the film has been sped up-is electrifying.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 15, 2020

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Guy Lodge

Variety

"Why do we give all our time to streets that don't love us back?" one Baltimore resident asks. Dancing with a raised fist throughout, this superb documentary makes a case for the effort.

May 31, 2020

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Michael Cuby

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Dark City uses the ebullient sound of Baltimore’s signature club music to reinvent the narrative of its city.

Sep 28, 2022

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Johnny Loftus

Decider

Puts its viewer in a position to get lost in a flurry of peak energy dance moves.

Apr 16, 2021

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Alex Lines

Film Inquiry

Dark City Beneath the Beat is a whole-hearted, bonafide firework of a feature that acts as a necessary reminder of how important the arts, and the communal spaces that they occupy, are to our collective social and individual spirits.

Sep 9, 2020

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susan j

I'd love to see this re-edited. It is way too stylistically edited with non-stop quick cuts, overdubs, nonlinearity. There's so much truly spectacular creativity and content here, but the substance is way overshadowed by style -- which is impressive in its way but ultimately skirts very close to gimmicky. The footage is astonishing, the talent is there, the history -- all good but, again. it suffers from a lack of overarching cohesion due to its manic editing. I would love to give it 4.5 or 5 because it's a gorgeous labor of love, but it's too all over the place. It should be a 5-part series, going into the facets that are merely touched on.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Between the music, fashion, dance, and energy. Dark City represents Maryland and Baltimore in an unseen bright light. Love love loved it

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Astrid Curet

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Deniese Davis

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Issa Rae

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Kirby Griffin

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Synopsis

Baltimore club music revitalizes the city's close-knit community for the arts.

Director: TT The Artist
Producer: Astrid Curet, Deniese Davis, Issa Rae
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 15, 2021
Runtime: 1h 5m

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