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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971
Blacksploitation had to begin somewhere. If only Melvin had enough money, talented crew to help him and a less self-rindulgent reverance, the first film wouldn't be like the first crepe--only for the the hungriest, undecerning appetite. Of great historical value and a mark of tremendous courage and tenacity, still an aesthetic mishmash. The black audiences upon release were ecstatic to see a film about them saying fuck you to white power. That alone gives it an extra star.
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Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Year: 1971
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The Tempest 2010
2010--Short take--Stretching out my neck, once again, I'm going to call this one of the more incorrectly critically maligned films of recent years. Julie Taymor isn't for everybody, I know, and her straightforward approach to Shakespeare's first play, Titus, most likely set critics against the outside-of-the-lines aesthetic that drives this production but it works, damnit, and that's what counts to this Caliban. I've seen this in film and stage umpteen times but never with such playful abandon as what Julie…
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Losing Ground 1982
Kathleen Collins is the 2nd Black woman to direct a feature film. If both of those specifics weren’t pertinent, I don’t believe this film would be screening on any platform. It’s bad.
Collins was a professor of film studies. An academic, she proved unable to transform into artist.
A professor of philosophy is her stand in and she’s so busy sounding like an academic she fails to sound like a real person. That’s true of all the characters There’s…Translated from by
