Dread Beat an’ Blood Trailer Premiere at Rolling Stone
Dub Poet Legend Linton Kwesi Johnson Returns to Stage and Screen. Dread Beat an Blood, a still-vital 1979 film on the poet and writer's life, will be re-released in September. By David Browne
The Atlantic Festival - North American Premiere - LKJ @ BAM
Premiere of Dread Beat an’ Blood at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), featuring a live performance by legendary poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. After the screening, Johnson takes the stage in person, reciting his poetry in his first US theatrical appearance in close to two decades and participating in a moderated conversation with Vann R. Newkirk II, senior editor at The Atlantic.
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Dread Beat an Blood - New York Premiere of 2K Restoration at BAM
Born in Jamaica, poet, reggae artist, and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson(LKJ) moved to England in 1963, and by the late 70s attained iconic status with his robust voice, passionate activism, and fervent verse set to heavy dub. Marking the 50th anniversary of Johnson’s groundbreaking 1975 eponymous poem, the potent documentary portrait Dread Beat an Blood by Franco Rosso—director of the incendiary Babylon, which screened at BAM Rose Cinemas in 2012, 2019 and 2024—comes to the Steinberg Screen in a beautiful new restoration from the original 16mm elements by the British Film Institute.
BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE • Bronco Bullfrog: how the locations from the suedehead classic look today
With the cult British youth film Bronco Bullfrog on re-release in the US, we went looking for the film’s east London locations. Would Del recognise the Stratford of today?
SCREEN SLATE • ‘Bronco Bullfrog’
An unsentimental and achingly observant kitchen sink drama restored by the British Film Institute and Platts-Mills before his death last October.
AIR MAIL • That 70s Movie
Largely improvised by an unruly teenage cast, the 1970 black-and-white film Bronco Bullfrog gets a shiny new restoration
OBSERVER • Before ‘Quadrophenia,’ The Jam, Or The Sex Pistols There Was ‘Bronco Bullfrog’
The British 1970 film — a black and white neorealist look at kids in the streets — echoed through music and the movies of Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino
THE NEW YORKER • Goings On About Town—Movies ‘Bronco Bullfrog’
The British filmmaker Barney Platts-Mills’s recently rediscovered first feature, from 1970, is a raw and sensitive drama about working-class London teens facing formidable walls of social exclusion.
THE NEW YORK TIMES • ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers
Barney Platts-Mills’s 1969 feature about aimless East End teenagers in love comes to Film Forum after a cinematic rediscovery.
BROOKLYN VEGAN • UK “suedehead” subculture film ‘Bronco Bullfrog’ gets new 2K restoration, in theaters this spring
British director Barney Platt-Mills' 1970 film Bronco Bullfrog is a protopunk cult classic that's set in the mod-related "Suedehead" subculture.