Posted on Mar 4, 2023
Black History Month is over, but these movies are forever
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"Last month, I had the good fortune of revisiting one of my creative projects I'm most proud of: The Black Film Canon, a collection of great and culturally significant films by Black directors as voted on by esteemed film critics, scholars, and filmmakers. Not long after it was originally published in Slate in 2016, my co-author Dan Kois and I were already talking about updating the list – mere months later came the releases of Moonlight and Get Out, just for starters. (Fun fact/humble-brag: When I interviewed Barry Jenkins about Moonlight for my old podcast Represent he deemed our inclusion of his debut feature Medicine for Melancholy in the canon as "the highlight of [his] life." Fortunately, I'm pretty sure he's had several moments since then that have far surpassed this honor.)
Seven years later, Dan and I finally got around to expanding the list, and we published The New Black Film Canon earlier this week as a collaboration between Slate and NPR. We asked a bunch of experts, including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Robert Townsend and W. Kamau Bell, to send us their top five Black-directed movies released since 2016; we also sought out suggestions for any pre-2016 films they felt we missed out on the first time around. Some of the picks we received were hardly surprising – as you might've guessed, the aforementioned Get Out and Moonlight came up on our participants' lists over and over again)".
"Last month, I had the good fortune of revisiting one of my creative projects I'm most proud of: The Black Film Canon, a collection of great and culturally significant films by Black directors as voted on by esteemed film critics, scholars, and filmmakers. Not long after it was originally published in Slate in 2016, my co-author Dan Kois and I were already talking about updating the list – mere months later came the releases of Moonlight and Get Out, just for starters. (Fun fact/humble-brag: When I interviewed Barry Jenkins about Moonlight for my old podcast Represent he deemed our inclusion of his debut feature Medicine for Melancholy in the canon as "the highlight of [his] life." Fortunately, I'm pretty sure he's had several moments since then that have far surpassed this honor.)
Seven years later, Dan and I finally got around to expanding the list, and we published The New Black Film Canon earlier this week as a collaboration between Slate and NPR. We asked a bunch of experts, including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Robert Townsend and W. Kamau Bell, to send us their top five Black-directed movies released since 2016; we also sought out suggestions for any pre-2016 films they felt we missed out on the first time around. Some of the picks we received were hardly surprising – as you might've guessed, the aforementioned Get Out and Moonlight came up on our participants' lists over and over again)".
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Seven years later, Dan and I finally got around to expanding the list, and we published The New Black Film Canon earlier this week as a collaboration between Slate and NPR. We asked a bunch of experts, including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Robert Townsend and W. Kamau Bell, to send us their top five Black-directed movies released since 2016; we also sought out suggestions for any pre-2016 films they felt we missed out on the first time around. Some of the picks we received were hardly surprising – as you might've guessed, the aforementioned Get Out and Moonlight came up on our participants' lists over and over again).
But among the happy outcomes of curating a list like this are the surprises and discoveries that accompany it; while I studied film in college and grad school and have made it a point throughout my career to seek out as many kinds of Black films as possible, there are plenty of movies I still haven't seen or haven't even heard of. How is it that it took me so long to watch RaMell Ross' mesmerizing documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening? Well, thanks to it landing on several of our participants' lists, I finally have."...
..."Seven years later, Dan and I finally got around to expanding the list, and we published The New Black Film Canon earlier this week as a collaboration between Slate and NPR. We asked a bunch of experts, including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Robert Townsend and W. Kamau Bell, to send us their top five Black-directed movies released since 2016; we also sought out suggestions for any pre-2016 films they felt we missed out on the first time around. Some of the picks we received were hardly surprising – as you might've guessed, the aforementioned Get Out and Moonlight came up on our participants' lists over and over again).
But among the happy outcomes of curating a list like this are the surprises and discoveries that accompany it; while I studied film in college and grad school and have made it a point throughout my career to seek out as many kinds of Black films as possible, there are plenty of movies I still haven't seen or haven't even heard of. How is it that it took me so long to watch RaMell Ross' mesmerizing documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening? Well, thanks to it landing on several of our participants' lists, I finally have."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Colonizer - Black Panther (2018)
I HATE BRITISH PEOPLE FOR A REASON
My wife had a laugh at this movie because she always calls white people colonizers here in Canada which is true. But I like how the sister of the king of wakanda said it right before this video kicked in, 'oh great Another Broken white guy!'
He's the token white guy who really helps out at the end. I'm glad because of so much of the African-American Community is racist against white people just like the 1619 critical race Theory BS.
I wish they would talk about historical movies like The Tuskegee Airmen Or Glory or other movies talking about African Americans succeeding and sometimes dying like in the movie devotion in which the first black Marine Corps aviator who survived hazing going through Flight School be friends his wingman and his wingman wins the Medal of Honor crashing his plane. We all bleed red. I would think they would focus more on movies that make a difference though I do admit that wakanda and Wauconda forever were awesome movies and box office smashes!!
https://youtu.be/uV6iBcFeu70
He's the token white guy who really helps out at the end. I'm glad because of so much of the African-American Community is racist against white people just like the 1619 critical race Theory BS.
I wish they would talk about historical movies like The Tuskegee Airmen Or Glory or other movies talking about African Americans succeeding and sometimes dying like in the movie devotion in which the first black Marine Corps aviator who survived hazing going through Flight School be friends his wingman and his wingman wins the Medal of Honor crashing his plane. We all bleed red. I would think they would focus more on movies that make a difference though I do admit that wakanda and Wauconda forever were awesome movies and box office smashes!!
https://youtu.be/uV6iBcFeu70
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