Discussing Stir Crazy
Alper Kavak: Sidney Poitier’s first directorial entry into the 1980s was Stir Crazy, a quirky and lighthearted buddy comedy thatContinue Reading
Tag: Sidney Poitier
The Films of Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was nothing less than groundbreaking. The first Black actor to rise to prominence in America, Poitier’s career occurredContinue Reading
Old School from a New Perspective: Devil in a Blue Dress
Director Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress opens with a shot of a Black neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles.Continue Reading
The Righteous Anger of Watermelon Man
Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) is a racist. He may cover it up in “jokes” or off-color comments that he triesContinue Reading
Revolution on the Silver Screen
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streetsContinue Reading
