Mini-Me is home from school today (start of the long President’s Day weekend/vaca), but for Baby Girl it was business as usual–preschool. So…I’m twisting Mini-Me’s locs, and we are watching Le Mozart Noir based on Christina’s recommendation. The film introduces my budding violinist to Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph de Bologne, a swashbuckling […]
My favorite cinephile (and dear friend), Tambay Obenson, penned the following editorial for NPR. I’m also categorizing this post as “Black to Future”, because Tambay is most definitely one to watch.
Calling for Autonomous, Black-Owned Film Companies
This week, we have a submission from blogger Tambay Obenson. He’s a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York, who […]
For the first time in forever, I treated myself to a Saturday matinee courtesy of Netflix. Just watched Ousmane Sembene’s “Black Girl” (1966), and “Borom Sarret (The Wagoner)” (1963). Both films are meditations on post-colonial reality in Africa: Surprise! Independence didn’t magically herald financial and social stability. If you don’t know about the Senegalese […]
