Punkcast's video: BABYLON USA Premiere Post-Screening Q A w Brinsley Forde Dennis Bovell

PUNKCAST3919-01 NYU Punk Professor and West London vetaran Vivien Goldman in coversation with lead actor Brinsley Forde and music director Dennis Bovell at the US Premiere of Babylon at BAM, Brooklyn March 8 2019. Banned from the New York Film Festival for “being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension” (Vivien Goldman, Time Out) and never released in the US, Franco Rosso’s incendiary 1980 film follows a young dancehall DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of landmark British reggae group Aswad) in Thatcher-era South London as he pursues his musical ambitions while battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Written by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia) with beautiful, smoky cinematography by two-time Oscar winner Chris Menges (The Killing Fields), Babylon is fearless and unsentimental, tempered by the hazy bliss of the dancehall and set to a blistering reggae, dub, and lovers rock soundtrack anchored by Dennis Bovell. https://www.bam.org/film/2019/babylon https://www.facebook.com/babylonthemovie/ https://www.instagram.com/babylonthemovie/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/movies/babylon-review.html