The T.A.M.I. Show, the 1964 youth-concert explosion has just been released on DVD for the first time. It’s an electric surge of ’60s rock-and-soul energy that will leave you bopping, laughing, and generally awed at the fervor of the moment it captures. Performers include Chuck Berry, James Brown and the Flames, The Rolling Stones, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and The Beach Boys, along with several other major stars of the day all on the same bill for a show that runs nearly two hours.
"Coca-Cola made headlines earlier this year when the corporation tried to shut down screenings of this film, directors Carmen Garcia and German Gutierrez’s documentary — and it’s not hard to see why. The film follows a pair of U.S. lawyers attempting to tie the soft-drink giant to the kidnapping, murder, and torture of union leaders and their families in South America, and there will no doubt be viewers who walk away pledging never to burn their tongues on Coke’s product again.
"Much of The Coca-Cola Case takes place in Colombia, a country attorney Daniel Kovalik calls the “trade union murder capital of the world, by far.” He claims 4,000 assassinations of union members have been carried out in that country in the past 24 years, including eight at Coke’s franchise bottling plant. Kovalik and colleague Terry Collingsworth have spent almost 10 years trying to hold the company’s U.S. headquarters accountable, and the documentary’s draw comes from the lingering, far-fetched possibility they could actually succeed.