Mubi's series Double Bill: Bill Gunn is showing July - December, 2020 in the United States.How daring to make a Black picture without a race problem. So daring that the critics stateside assailed Ganja & Hess (1973), so befuddled were they by the vision of director Bill Gunn. He took them famously to task in a New York Times op-ed, which pointedly condemned the whiteness of film criticism. Gunn died in 1989, but his gripe remains unfortunately pertinent today, and at this moment, when much of mainstream media attention afforded to Black films has taken the shape of anti-racist watch lists. These are useful as educational fodder, but less so on the front of appreciating and valuing films from Black directors absent from conversations about art and cinema today—including Gunn’s.Gunn acted in Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground (1982) and rubbed elbows with James Dean and Marlon Brando. He wrote the...
- 8/5/2020
- MUBI
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, a writer and National Public Radio (NPR) commentator who taught the world about the Gullah food and culture of coastal South Carolina, died on Saturday in the Bronx, NPR reports. She was 79. Grosvenor first gained attention with… Continue Reading →...
- 9/7/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
According to the UCLA Film & TV Archive, Julie Dash will direct a film based on the life of writer, poet, actress, culinary anthropologist Vertamae Grosvenor, a frequent contributor to NPR (producing award-winning documentaries like 1983's "Slave Voices: Things Past Telling," and "Daufuskie: Never Enough Too Soon"), who went on to host NPR's award-winning documentary series "Horizons" from 1988 until 1995, when it was discontinued. To be titled "The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl," the project received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, via the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of...
- 6/13/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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