Co-presented by Dusty Groove
In celebration of the beautiful new restoration of DREAD BEAT AN BLOOD, Franco Rosso’s portrait of dub poet and living legend Linton Kwesi Johnson, the Music Box is proud to present eight classic international gems, vibrating with reggae bass, beats, and power. Help us exercise the sound system in our new third theater with cult favorite’s like BABYLON, THE HARDER THEY COME, and ROCKERS, alongside rarely screened must-sees like REGGAE SUNSPLASH, and STEPPING RAZOR: RED X.
“Music is psychology. And if the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind and the body, then you ain't gonna feel it. Because reggae music is not something you hear, it's something you feel. And if you don't feel it, you can't know it. It is a spiritual music with spiritual ingredients for spiritual purposes.” ― Peter Tosh
Coming up in this Series
Babylon (1980)
Opens September 27
Never-before released in the U.S., Franco Rosso’s Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but the New York Film Festival deemed it “too contr... Read more
Burning an Illusion
Opens September 28
Out of the racially volatile climate of 1980s Thatcherite England, a period rent by police brutality and the criminal neglect of Afro-Caribbean and Af... Read more
Dread Beat an Blood
Opens September 25
“The regal dub poet” (Anderson Tepper, The New York Times) Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) is a living legend. Born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in r... Read more
The Harder They Come
Opens September 26
WITH A PIECE IN HIS HAND, HE TAKES ON THE MAN! The epochal cultural moment that first brought reggae to the international stage, made Jimmy Cliff a st... Read more
Lovers Rock
Opens September 25
One of the greatest party films in recent memory, Lovers Rock teleports spectators onto the sweaty dancefloor of a 1980 all-nighter in Ladbroke Grove,... Read more
Reggae Sunsplash
Opens September 26
Experience REGGAE SUNSPLASH as you never have, with a brand new 4K restoration of this iconic 70's music documentary. Set against the backdrop of Jama... Read more
Rockers
Opens September 27
In what is probably the best reggae movie ever made, drummer Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace stars as himself, a hustling musician who buys a motorbike in... Read more
Stepping Razor: Red X
Opens September 28
This documentary explores the life of the late Peter Tosh, reggae artist, Jamaican folk hero, prophet and radical political activist. Based on his per... Read more