Charles Lane is like the poet or thinker who is comfortably at the margin, and understans the pop world, but is not of it and has no desire or ability to enable it…the outsider artist is keenly aware of his place within the zeitgeist, it's just that he is less concerned with media hype than he is with his own ideas and expression.
Read MoreWhen such films like Terrorodome - films that feature Black people in various modes of actual de-colonization or revolt - are actually digested and taken in for what they are – we will be able to get somewhere. Films of this nature only shock still because the majority of film viewers are all too uneasy about seeing actual liberation on screen.
Read MoreNot that the great Duane Jones was calculated and distant; no he was cool in the classic manner of Black people being cool — and his distinguished life and career as an actor, lover of drama, and educator contains many lessons for us all. Especially this Halloween.
Read MoreIs this the end? Is cinema dead? Due to the constant brutalization of Black bodies, does, as our writer states, “the smart and polished and attractive images” supplied by Hollywood do, “nothing to counter or destroy the iconography of Black people held prisoner to the eye of the camera”? Read ahead to get Dennis Leroy Kangalee’s perspective.
Read MoreA review of our recent Film Club selection EXECUTIVE ORDER, now available for viewing on Amazon Prime
Read MoreNewton wrote that Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song "blows my mind because it is so simple and yet so profound." See our breakdown of his review, and Newton’s review presented in full text.
Read MoreGreat people are highly complex, a cauldron of seeming contradictions. What if those contradictions are not incongruous at all, however? What if they actually are - on the surface - who that person is?
Read MoreWe share special insight on why you should read these integral Black film books.
Read MoreThis film proves what ‘Visual Liberation’ could be. ..American radical filmmakers or those with a serious interest in progressive socially conscious movies if not actually revolutionary ones could learn A LOT by watching and studying the film.
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