#black cinema
@Jelly_Nah as Miss Parker from Friday.
Too hard to choose
la notte, 1961
michelangelo antonioni
Check out this great essay on Debbi Morgan’s career-best portrayal of frequently widowed 1960s Louisiana psychic Mozelle Batiste Delacroix in the richly evocative Southern Gothic melodrama Eve’s Bayou (1997, Kasi Lemmons; with co-stars Jurnee Smollett, Diahann Carroll and Samuel L. Jackson):
““We’re two of a kind, my brother and I,” Mozelle intones repeatedly, and it takes a formidable talent to play the sister of Samuel L. Jackson (at his most magnetic here, with no 12-letter words in sight). But Morgan actually upstages him. She has a way of gliding into a room as though on a dolly, and her reaction shots are so acute that the film uses them as punctuation. Her unsettlingly wide eyes flicker between emotions outsize and minute, and her sultry, worldly-wise voice sounds just as one imagines Ava Gardner’s did before the studio sanded down the Southern edges. She feels born of the bayous, as endemic to the region as Spanish moss… It’s worth considering Morgan’s turn not only as a great performance but as the kind of supporting work that’s hardly ever recognized—neither ingénue nor overdue, and not, like this year’s front-runners, a masquerading lead. It fuels the eternal hope that admirers of great performances, like Louis in Mozelle’s prophecy, “open their eyes and see that what they’ve been looking for is standing right in front of them.”” — Steven Mears, “On Debbi Morgan in Eve’s Bayou”,Film Comment (February 2016)
And see my previous post on this undervalued classic of black cinema here!
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to celebrate black history month i’d like to bring some light to this film, black girl (1966)
this true story was made as a film in 1966 by
Ousmane Sembène, and is thought to be the first saharan african film made by and african director to get international attention. above is featured Mbissine Thérèse Diop playing the role of a french made working for a white couple and dealing with the hardships of being a black woman in 60s france.
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
Yes, this flick is yet anotherpost-Taken action flick about a ruthless assassin. What makes this one different?
A Black woman smokin’ muhphuckas, then kickin’ back a Henny, that’s what!
Enjoy the full trailer of Taraji’s-assassinatin’-greatness here (complete with ‘70s Foxy Brown title font):
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Dir: Berry Jenkins, DoP: James Laxton
Based a novel by the magical James Baldwin ❤❤
Black Directors:
Moonlight (2016) Director: Barry Jenkins
Queen and slim (2020) Director: Melina Matsoukas
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) Director: Julius Onah
Belle (2013) Director: Amma Asante
Fruitvale station(2013) Director: Ryan Coogler
Monsters and Men (2019) Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Candyman (2TBC) Director: Nia DaCosta
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018) Director: Peter Ramsey (co-director with Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman)
submarine (2010) Director:Richard Ayoade
Love and Basketball (2000) Director: Gina prince-bythewood
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If beale street could talk
2018
Director: Barry Jenkins
Cinematography: James Laxton
Happy black history month!
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Black cinema:
Dear white people (2014) Director: Justin Simien
Do the right thing (1989) Director: Spike Lee
Black panther (2018) Director: Ryan Coogler
12 years a slave (2014) Director: Steve McQueen
Us (2019) Director: Jordan Peele
If beale street could talk (2018) Director: Barry Jenkins
Sorry to Bother You (2018) Director: Boots Riley
Creed 2 (2018) Director: Steven Caple Jr.
straight outta Compton (2015) Director: F. Gary Gray
blackkklansman (2018) Director: Spike Lee
Some of my favourite films by black directors
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