Michele's Movie Talk

Painting from Frederick Douglass Series (1939) by African American Artist Jacob Lawrence. Copyright restricted. See http://www.jacoband...

 Discussion of course work for Black Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement in relation to a number of current films, including Eyes on the ...

The Main Cast of The Newsroom HBO Several years ago, not sure how many--maybe it was 1999 when my niece began boarding at Choate Rosemar...

-->      Based on the novel by Edna Ferber, Show Boat was turned into a successful and innovative Broadway show by Jerome Ker...

I can't remember what age I was when I first began to read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and as have most people, I have see...

"I started imparting wisdom about men--wisdom gathered from working more than half a century on one concept: how to be a man.  I al...

 Written as program notes initially for a production of Blues for Mr Charlie at the New Haarlem Arts Theatre at the City College of Ne...

Viola Davis, the real star of The Help (2009)     The novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett, a bestseller and a big favorite with black...

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Publicity for 1927 Silent Version of Uncle Tom's Cabin http://blackandbluespeople.blogspot.com/search/label/Slavery This is a lin...

The production of Melvin Van Peeble's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song by the Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, which can be found at...

Julie & Julia (2009), Director: Nora Ephron The thing that was really a revelation to me this particular year, with all the usual tryin...

This is a real great movie directed by Kasi Lemmons, made in 2007 about a dj named Petey Greene who really made D.C. sit up and notice.  Bea...

The HBO film recently screened is intriguing although there are many questions left unanswered so far as I am concerned.  From 1936 through ...

At the following link: http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/micheaux/program.html , you will find the program of a film series exhibited at t...