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How did one decade change American cinema - and culture - forever? Elvis Mitchell explores the history of Black representation and the cultural impact of wit...
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Among many other things, the film offers a radical, essential watchlist for budding appreciators and connoisseurs of film and the movies, one that foregrounds works shaped by black artists: writers, producers, activists, directors, performers, bands, musicians, comedians, athletes, historians, and novelists. It is an extensive list that covers the 1920s up until 1979, and Mitchell nods towards ...
From celebrated writer and film historian Elvis Mitchell, IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!? is both a documentary and deeply personal essay. The film examines the craft and power of cinema from a ...
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7. Okt. 2022 · The film provides insight into the history of Black representation going back to the earliest days of cinema, and the cultural impact of witnessing unapologetic Blackness. Produced by Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, Angus Wall and Ciara Lacy, IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!? marks Mitchell’s directorial debut.
Is That Black Enough for You?!?, written and directed by former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell, is an essential documentary about Black cinema of the late 1960s and 1970s [but also taking note of some important precursors]. Here, Mitchell resurrects and reappraises a breathtaking array of classic American films, and gives them a new context, examining the “blaxploitation ...
10. Nov. 2022 · In one sense, yes, one must in a film about Black artistry. Yet the trite nature of these brief moments exposes something far worse than the fact that not nearly enough progress has been made in ...
28. Okt. 2022 · LarsenOnFilm. The doc works best when Mitchell, who narrates, gets past the facts and lets his acutely observant critical voice merge with his memories, as when he recalls seeing Spook on the big screen with friends as a teenager in Detroit. His education then, is ours now.
