Is That Black Enough for You?!?

2022
R
2 Std. 15 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

1615

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.

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Der Kulturkritiker und Historiker Elvis Mitchell analysiert die Evolution und Revolution des Schwarzen Kinos – von dessen Anfängen bis hin zur einschneidenden Filmära der 70er.Der Kulturkritiker und Historiker Elvis Mitchell analysiert die Evolution und Revolution des Schwarzen Kinos – von dessen Anfängen bis hin zur einschneidenden Filmära der 70er.Der Kulturkritiker und Historiker Elvis Mitchell analysiert die Evolution und Revolution des Schwarzen Kinos – von dessen Anfängen bis hin zur einschneidenden Filmära der 70er.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

1615

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

Narrator
(Synchronisation)

Margaret Avery

Self

Harry Belafonte

Self

Charles Burnett

Self

Suzanne De Passe

Self

Antonio Fargas

Self

Laurence Fishburne

Self

Sheila Frazier

Self

Whoopi Goldberg

Self

Louise Archambault

Self
(as Louise Archambault Greaves)

Samuel L. Jackson

Self

Stan Lathan

Self

Roscoe Orman

Self

James Signorelli

Self
(as Jim Signorelli)

Glynn Turman

Self

Mario Van Peebles

Self

Billy Dee Williams

Self

Zendaya

Self

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Harry Belafonte: Not one picture that I turned down did I regret not doing. I didn't resent any of them. I'm glad others got an opportunity and went off and did it, but my initial... First and foremost, I'm an artist. I'm an actor. And I came out of a school with Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Rod Steiger, Tony Curtis, with a director that gave us no quarter. I'm not gonna do anything other than what I think is worthy of being done. And fortunately for me, I was a runaway success in the world at large because I had a globe so passionately approving of my presence in their midst that nobody could dismiss the fact that that thing on the horizon called Belafonte could really not be fucked with. Because anytime anybody came up and gave me an ultimatum, I said, "Fuck you. I'm going to Paris. I'll probably live there if I like, but I... I have a destination that answers your denial of what I could be."

Verbindungen
Features Ein Dummkopf und sein Geld (1912)

Soundtracks
Transmograpfication
Written by James Brown and Dave Matthews
Performed by James Brown

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Ausgewählte Rezension

5/10

Starts out interesting, but eventually peters out...

This documentary starts out interesting with lots of historic facts about the earliest black movies that were made, with lots of interesting interviews by big Hollywood names like Samuel L Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Bellafonte and Sidney Poitier.

The bad: but after an hour this documentary veers of into all sorts of directions, becoming disjointed and long in the tooth.

It is as if this director simply had no control over his urge to namedrop as many film classics as possible and then start analysing what was wrong with them.

Recommended watch for the first hour, but I fear not many will stay focussed till the very end, because this documentary unfortunately peters out after the first hour.