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Oscar Micheaux Is the Black Trailblazing Filmmaker You Need to Know — Film Forum Is Here to Show You...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe 17-film retrospective "Oscar Micheaux and the Birth of Black Independent Cinema" kicks off at...
Dame Helen Mirren remembers the Queen as the ‘nation’s leading star’ at Baftas
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoDame Helen Mirren has remembered the Queen as the “nation’s leading star” as she lead a special...
'Pioneers' of Black cinema to be featured at Gateway Film Center
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBlack filmmaker Oscar Micheaux contained multitudes: He was an artist of the first order, a...
Indiana University professor unearths earliest footage by Black film company from 1916
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople can watch what the Library of Congress has just now affirmed to be the earliest surviving footage from a Black film company. This short clip was hidden in plain sight for years until ...
‘Sidney’ Director Reginald Hudlin On Impact Of Sidney Poitier: “He Changed The Global Image Of Black...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen the late Sidney Poitier embarked on a movie career in the early 1950s, he entered an industry...
Jean-Luc Godard, Pioneering French Filmmaker, Dies
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJean-Luc Godard in 2010. (Photo: The Image Gate via Getty Images) Jean-Luc Godard, one of the world’s most revered film directors, known for his radical...
Gerth: Oldham County's favorite son was a racist, and residents are honest about it
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhat do you do when your most famous resident is the greatest white supremacist filmmaker this side...
Can There Be Redemption for Nate Parker?
The Root via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1999, actor Nate Parker (Red Tails, The Birth of a Nation) was accused of raping an 18-year-old freshman as a student at Pennsylvania State University...
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is a brilliant synthesis of Martin Scorsese's filmography
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMartin Scorsese has finally brought it all home. Though most famous for his crime films centered...
Southwest Ohio's first movie stars: The Gish sisters, silent film idols in Hollywood's infancy
Journal-News, Hamilton, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 14—Lillian and Dorothy Gish, sisters who came to fame in the early age of the silver screen, have roots in the Miami Valley. Lillian was born in Springfield on Oct. 14, 1893, to James Leigh ...