In a world devoted to the instant and the new, Bob Marley, dead for more than 30 years, could be a dusty musical footnote. Instead, the enormous popularity of the transcendent reggae superstar shows ...

Kevin Macdonald shot “Marley,” but I think we can be certain he did not shoot the deputy. Macdonald, the veteran documentarian whose nonfiction classics include “Touching the Void” and “One Day in ...

Studio One recording engineer Bob Andy describes the birth of reggae as a happy accident in the new Bob Marley documentary “Marley.” When engineers ran a ska beat through a studio tape machine it ...

In a world devoted to the instant and the new, Bob Marley, dead for more than 30 years, could be a dusty musical footnote. Instead, the enormous popularity of the transcendent reggae superstar shows ...

YOU STILL HEAR his songs on the radio and most people you come across know him, but do you really know who Bob Marley was? Maybe not. That’s why Kevin Macdonald’s comprehensive documentary on the life ...

What's the difference between an authoritative documentary and a definitive one? About 30 minutes. So goes the joke that "Marley" director Kevin Macdonald told at the South by Southwest Film Festival, ...

The Oscar-winning director's new documentary on the reggae legend screened Sunday night at the Paramount Theatre. By Jay A. Fernandez Kevin Macdonald’s Marley documentary screened at the SXSW Film ...

died of cancer at the horribly young age of 36, and he has become more famous and influential in the decades since his passing than he ever was in his lifetime. This point is made quite subtly and ...

Magnolia Pictures appears to have another strong documentary on its 2012 slate. The distributor bowed Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Marley at 42 locations Friday 4/20 (a coincidental date?) to ...

Whenever an artist’s family authorizes a documentary, there’s a worry that it’s going to be a rosy, public-relations piece. “Marley’’ is not that. It’s an outstanding, warts-and-all look at reggae ...

“Marley” is scheduled for theatrical release in North America and the U.K. on April 20, and worldwide release in the summer of 2012. By Karen Chu HONG KONG – Kadokawa Pictures has acquired from ...