Special This Is It Pics

"This Is it," Michael Jackson told his شائقین in London, announcing his forthcoming کنسرٹ tour. "This is the final curtain call." The curtain fell sooner than expected. What is left is this extraordinary documentary, nothing at all like what I was expecting to see. Here is not a sick and drugged man forcing himself through grueling rehearsals, but a spirit embodied سے طرف کی music. Michael Jackson was something else.

The film has been assembled from rehearsals from April through June 2009 for a کنسرٹ tour scheduled for this summer. The footage was "captured سے طرف کی a few cameras," an opening screen tells...