Tara Bitran | The Hollywood Reporter The University of Chicago professor will present Silent Sunday Nights starting Sept. 15. Beginning Sunday, Sept. 15, Turner Classic Movies will have a fifth host to introduce the uncut and uninterrupted films of the Silent era:...
By Cynthia Littleton | Variety HBO is developing a biopic of pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux that has Tyler Perry on board to star. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are shepherding the project for Sony Pictures TV through their Storyline Entertainment...
from Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson Updating this list as I do once a year (I forgot to do it last year; so there was a lot to research and catch up on) to keep you all up-to-date on where each project stands going into the new year, including 18 new additions… There...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims We’ve certainly talked a lot about this new Kino Lorber five-disc Blu-Ray/DVD set, “Pioneers of African-American Cinema,” but we wouldn’t be doing it if it wasn’t so vital and important. Nearly 500 independently produced black films...
A little-known chapter of film history, the “race film” - funded, written, produced, directed, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color – flourished from the 1920s into the 1940s. Previously circulated only in poor-quality 16mm prints, these newly restored...
Nearly 500 ‘race films’ were produced in the US between 1915 and 1952 but lost due to a combination of neglect and poor preservation, yet a new project shines spotlight on the early 20th-century films of Oscar Micheaux and others By Ashley Clark | The Guardian...
https://youtu.be/ao5V-XhXS-c Director: Bayer L. Mack Featuring: Oscar Micheaux Synopsis: Oscar Micheaux was a towering figure even by today's standards. He was not only America's preeminent black filmmaker for three decades, but also the country's most prolific;...
By Neil Graves | New York Post It’s taken three years, dozens of phone calls and hundreds — maybe a thousand — pieces of documents, but Grant Harper Reid can now say he knows all there is to know about his granddad. Reid’s grandfather was showman Leonard Harper, a...
https://vimeo.com/10396511 Director: Pearl Bowser, Bestor Cram Writer(s): Clyde Taylor Starring: Toni Cade Bambara, Robert Hall, Elton Fax, Pearl Bowser, Carlton Moss, Frances E. Williams, Dorothy Delfs, Olive Delfs, Shingzie Howard, St. Clair Bourne, Herb Jeffries,...
Director: Oscar Micheaux Writer(s): Oscar Micheaux (novel "The Wind from Nowhere" and screenplay) Starring: William Byrd, Leroy Collins, Verlie Cowan, Frances De Young, Vernon B. Duncan, Edward Fraction, Harris Gaines, Jessie Johnson, Barbara Lee, Yvonne Machen,...
https://youtu.be/kjrd2C3f6Y0 Director: Oscar Micheaux Writer(s): Oscar Micheaux Starring: Cora Green, Larry Seymour, Hazel Diaz, Alec Lovejoy, Carman Newsome, Amanda Randolph, Trixie Smith, Nat Reed, Sammy Gardiner, Dorothy Van Engle, Doli Armena, Columbus Jackson,...
https://youtu.be/TVbz2ad_y5E Director: Oscar Micheaux Writer(s): Oscar Micheaux (adapted from Naomi, Negress!) Starring: Jacqueline Lewis, Ethel Moses, Alice B. Russell, Trixie Smith, Charles Thompson, Carman Newsome, Gloria Press, Alec Lovejoy, Columbus Jackson,...