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28 ott 2022 · At first, “Is That Black Enough for You?!?” is almost unfocused in its freewheeling structure, moving back and forth through the history of Black cinema in a way that feels more personal than chronological. Of course, the never-hesitant Mitchell isn't afraid to take big swings at the canon almost immediately, noting the casual racism in so ...
10 ott 2022 · Review: Elvis Mitchell’s Intoxicating Deep Dive into the Black Cinema Revolution of the ’70s. A critic's movie-love documentary artfully celebrates and deconstructs the decade when African ...
12 ott 2022 · Elvis Mitchell’s Is That Black Enough for You?!?, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and lands on Netflix Nov. 11, is the kind of work that tries to free us from this purgatory of ...
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.
16 nov 2022 · So: is Is That Black Enough for You?!? —the new Netflix documentary from film historian and writer Elvis Mitchell—“black enough for you?”. It is for me and I hope for you: the film offers an updated, earnest, and impressively detailed analysis of African American cinema. While Mitchell takes 1970s cinema generally, and Blaxploitation ...
11 nov 2022 · The documentary title Is That Black Enough For You?!? comes from many different sources.. The phrase is a reference to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem, co-written and directed by Ossie Davis ...
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 ...
