Is film the optimal medium for presenting history?
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Quantity has replaced quality in many aspects of life, in particular the arts - high or low. In the peculiar and singular realm of Black cinema it is less about canons or exhaustive ouvres. Kangalee explores how the power of singular works can surpass a dredge of mediocre and sometime meaningless works.
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Todd Haynes’ new documentary “The Velvet Underground” dismisses the exceptionalism of super-producer Tom Wilson, whitewashing his accomplishments from a seminal period of rock n’ roll. There’s little doubt on how that happened, but we explore further.
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The producer responsible for the greatest rock & roll single is still a mystery nearly six decades later. Ishmael Reed often iterates that Black people have to be paranoid to survive. Nothing prepares one for the atrocious behavior of those who “cover up” the crime of dwindling and exiling an artist’s influence, contributions, and impression left behind.
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Within the Black tradition of filmmaking, mentorship has always been a necessity. The understanding of the power that images have on the masses, the de facto “one at a time” hiring practices, and the lack of initiative by the studios to fund Black projects paired with their funding of hateful and harmful images - fuels this urgency.
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Gordon Parks being depicted as the "Father" of Blaxploitation Cinema is atrocious lies and makes his work and legacy "easy" and "pat" for movie academics and white kids in the suburbs
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Kathleen Collins’ The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy gives us an urge to be free, to literally want to run and “find ourselves.”
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In pt 2, Dennis Leroy Kangalee explores Billy Dee Williams’ personal iconography, his search for a director who can channel him correctly, Billy Dee’s psychedelic mind expansions, and, oh yeah, Star Wars.
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Our blog contributor Jacob Gray, who recently completed the first-ever THUH FILM FESTIVAL, chats with Luminal founder Curtis Caesar John about film programming and a life in cinema
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Dennis Leroy Kangalee explores how and why actor Billy Dee Williams is our most underrated matinee idol
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With life, liberty, and property being denied to Black Los Angelenos in the 1950’s, famed actress Hattie McDaniel fought for the rights of her people.
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Our review of the wild ride that is Janicza Bravo’s ZOLA. But is it worth watching?
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