His long-suffering second wife, Della, was married to him for 22 years. Bassset would receive an Academy Award nomination for the role, losing, many feel, unfairly, to Holly Hunter in The Piano.
The set also includes an excerpt from Hurston’s “Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina, May 1940,” amazing footage that documents the religious practices of the Gullah people in Beaufort, S.C.) — Manohla Dargis, These two shorts from the earliest days of sound seem to prophesy the rise of music videos. The streaming giant just added the section as its own genre. The crew, meanwhile, becomes increasingly frustrated by the director’s erratic behavior, and in a series of heavy group-therapy-like meetings, inches toward mutiny. A steady crescendo of ridiculousness leads to — what else? When it came out, Sparkle was a box office flop, but grew in stature later on due to VHS and DVD, as well as its amazing soundtrack, sung wholly by Aretha Franklin. Well, at first it did lose, losing over $10 million for Motown Productions and Universal Pictures as it was then the most expensive movie musical ever made. Our selections for subsequent decades are exclusively the work of black directors. ", "Illinois film industry generated $473M in 2018", "8 Features That Center On Black Lives at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival", "Black Films and Artists Thrive at 2018 Toronto International Film Festival", "How 'First Purge' Takes a Hands-On Approach to Race", "Black Films and the Oscars: Despair Must Not Be the Only Route to Prestige", "The Hate U Give is equal parts coming-of-age drama and Black Lives Matter primer.
(It should be noted that as good as Bassett was, Hunter, playing a mute, never spoke a line in the film she won for.) Ms. Dunye’s film is a reminder that the impulse to tell new stories is often entwined with the longing to honor lost or neglected traditions. Set roughly two decades before the events of Treasure Island and during the, It depicts the life of Frederick the Great, Set in the borders between the regions of, Loosely based on The Gentlemen Highwaymen, Based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend of the, Set at the court of the mentally ill King.
DREAMGIRLS (2006) The film version of the acclaimed stage play that originated with Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jennifer Holliday and Loretta Devine, the film was expected to be Beyonce’s Oscar bid. — A.O. We compiled a list of the best of Black music’s movies, whether the movie was great because of a stellar soundtrack, or was just a great movie musical, or both. The fantasy film, based on the 1962 novel, features a mixed race girl, her brother, and her friend embarking on a search for her missing father. Smokey Robinson asked for an apology to Berry Gordy, whom he says was misrepresented by the Curtis Taylor, Jr. character. (1993) A fictionalized version of Tina Turner’s memoir I, Tina, the movie starring Angela Bassett and Larry Fishbburne was a critical and commercial success. adaptation of the 13th century Swedish ballad, On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of King Balam, based on the epic poem Padmavat by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Sultan, A dramatised documentary film charting the first real-life journey made by the Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta from his native Morocco to Mecca for the Hajj, A sequel to the 2010 miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, set in England during the 1300s, a public defender in a remote, rural province finds himself expected to defend a pig in a murder trial, depicting this tense, politically charged, the House of York and the House of Lancaster, are in violent conflict over the throne, Historical fantasy drama series that presents a fictional account of, Elizabeth of York's marriage to Henry VII, as well as his early reign, Based on the life of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, The series tells the story of Charles I or, Greek biographical film about the life of the Greek painter of the, It depicts real life events of Francesco and, Hungarian adventure film based on the eponymous novel by István Fekete.
The Gabby Douglas Story – This biographical drama tells the story of Gabby Douglas, the American gymnast who made history at the 2012 Summer Olympics by becoming the first black woman to win the Individual All-Around Championship. For Black History Month, we have selected 28 essential films from the 20th century pertaining to African-American experiences. Though Jackson said it was one of his greatest experiences, it was the last theatrical film Diana Ross ever made.
The second of three features he directed, reverently remade by Spike Lee (as “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” in 2014), is about vampires, but it’s less a horror film than a sensual, scholarly, magic-realist exploration of black history and black desire. Get started now. In this follow-up to “Silver Streak,” Skip (Wilder), a would-be playwright, and Harry (Pryor), a struggling actor, leave New York for sunnier climes and wind up incarcerated for a bank robbery they are far too sweet and inept to have committed. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or earlier. Kid ’n Play, find mischief and romance on the dance floor in Reginald Hudlin’s feature directorial debut.
For films pertaining to the history of East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, please refer also to the list of Asian historical drama films. FEB. 1, 2018. But the artistry of their performances still stood out. Scott, If Francine Everett — the charming and vivacious star of this all-black drama — had been born decades later, she might have been a name everyone remembers. Save FB … In that version, Sparkle (Irene Cara), Sister (Lonette McKee) and (Dolores) Dwan Smith are three 50’s era Harlem sisters who want to sing, but face all kinds of obstacles in the music business.
Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin, a.k.a. But Curtis Mayfield’s classic soundtrack for has become as popular if not more than the film it was created for. — A.O. Duane Jones as Duke and Seret Scott as Sara in Kathleen Collins’s 1982 film, which had its long-awaited theatrical debut at Lincoln Center in 2015. Filled with lilting visual beauty and spiked with instances of abrupt barbarism — a white sheriff shoots two black men in the back and faces no consequences — the film paints a bittersweet, richly textured and plangent picture of a young man whose life is irrevocably defined if never circumscribed by the color line. Each one is built around a performance of the title number by one of the great artists of the era: Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith. An African-American soldier (Harry Baird) stationed in France has an affair with a young Frenchwoman (Nicole Berger) during a short leave, and their story becomes a prism for a quintessential 1960s theme: the longing for liberation in the face of deeply entrenched, absurd impediments to its achievement. List of films about black girlhood; Little Man (2006 film) Live and Let Die (film) Looking for Langston; Losing Ground (1982 film) Scott, Denzel Washington dominates almost every frame of this electrifying epic, which traces the arc of 20th-century America through a single extraordinary life. [1], harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBerryBerry2015 (, Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. But it has given us some exceptional movies that deal with racial prejudice and civil rights. Beginning with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, and continues with the first ten chapters of the Book of Acts. June 11, 2020 Advertisement. — A.O. — A.O. Scott, A culture-war flash point in its time, this passionate, angry mix of documentary, memoir and poetry that was shown on PBS is a milestone in both New Black and New Queer cinema. “St. Based on a novel he wrote in French, “La Permission” (as it’s also known) filters the elliptical storytelling, the black-and-white cinematography and the existential moods of the French New Wave through the director’s free-spirited, politically astute sensibility. — Manohla Dargis, The nominal star of this classic weepie is Claudette Colbert. The genre beats may seem familiar but race changes everything and now, guided by Mr. Franklin’s sure hand, it is Mr. Washington walking down cinema’s mean streets not Humphrey Bogart. Divided into vignettes punctuated by intertitles, it turns on the Devil — a masked figure with horns and a cape — driving a train teeming with wickedness. Nearly everyone here may be headed straight to hell, but most look as if they’re having a swell time getting there. Scott, The moment that Parks — the photographer, novelist and filmmaker — called “action” on “The Learning Tree,” he broke decades of Hollywood apartheid. The story is focused on a college student who becomes a male stripper. Bill.”) With a mortgage to pay, Easy takes a dodgy job that turns him into an accidental shamus, and he is soon chasing down a mysterious beauty (Jennifer Beals) while crossing paths with very bad men. Thank you for subscribing! In the 1930s and '40s, great black actors like Theresa Harris and Clarence Muse were often marginalized in servile Hollywood roles. Historical comedy-drama during the reign of, British officer in India investigates the. — A.O.