SundanceNow Doc Club, the streaming video subscription service that specializes in documentaries, has announced that online availability of its "Black Lives on Film" program of 11 documentaries, curated in honor of Black History Month. The lineup includes a number of films we've profiled on this blog over the years, including "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975," "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords," Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed" (available for the first time online), "King: A Filmed Record," "The Loving Story," "The Order of Myths" and several more. It truly is a solid group of documentary films, all of...
- 2/12/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
If you've been following our ongoing series Frame By Frame, you know that we recently spoke with Shari Frilot, senior film programmer of the Sundance Film Festival and chief curator of the Sundance New Frontier program. As a bonus to that conversation, Shari has curated a list of groundbreaking projects to come through the Festival, as well as projects that represent what New Frontier is about and the range of works that they show. Festival Films Stanley Nelson’s The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords This is the very first film I ever chased down and fought for. I thought the liberation story he was telling was fresh and incredibly important and I felt...
- 8/14/2014
- by Shari Frilot
- ShadowAndAct
"The agony and perverse ecstasy of unrequited love permeate Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea," writes Graham Fuller at the top of his interview with the director. Also in the new March/April 2012 issue of Film Comment: Jonathan Rosenbaum remembers Gilbert Adair (plus a few online exclusives: Adair on Mae West and his "Cliché Expert's Guide to the Cinema"), Anton Dolin examines "The Strange Case of Russian Maverick Aleksei German" (see, too, J Hoberman's 1990 piece for Fc on German) and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life tops the Reader's "20 Best Films of 2011" Poll — plus comments.
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film...
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film...
- 3/7/2012
- MUBI
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Laurens Grant's "Jesse Owens" as its Opening Night film on Thursday, April 12 in Durham, Nc. The film about the African American track and field star is produced and written by Full Frame Tribute honoree Stanley Nelson. Nelson will receive a tribute with a line-up of four of his titles: "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords," "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple," "A Place of Our Own" and "Sweet Honey in the Rock." Full press release reprinted below: Full Frame Announces Opening Night Film and 2012 Tribute Programming Honoring Stanley Nelson Durham, N.C., - March 6, 2012 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced the World Premiere of Laurens Grant’s “Jesse Owens” as its 2012 Opening Night Film on Thursday, April 12, at the Carolina Theatre. Produced and...
- 3/6/2012
- by Austin Dale
- Indiewire
Just got an email from California Newsreel, alerting us that the documentary, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, is available for free online previewing through the end of this month, so you’re encouraged to head over there and give it a look.
In short, the 1998 86-minute feature film “is the first film to chronicle the history of the Black press, including its central role in the construction of modern African American identity. It recounts the largely forgotten stories of generations of Black journalists who risked life and livelihood so African Americans could represent themselves in their own words and images.”
Stanley Nelson produced it, and Joe Morton narrates.
Click Here to go to the California Newsreel page where you can watch the film in its entirety! But hurry, because, as I said, it’s available only through the end of October!
In short, the 1998 86-minute feature film “is the first film to chronicle the history of the Black press, including its central role in the construction of modern African American identity. It recounts the largely forgotten stories of generations of Black journalists who risked life and livelihood so African Americans could represent themselves in their own words and images.”
Stanley Nelson produced it, and Joe Morton narrates.
Click Here to go to the California Newsreel page where you can watch the film in its entirety! But hurry, because, as I said, it’s available only through the end of October!
- 10/21/2010
- by Wale
- ShadowAndAct
Stanley Nelson, the legendary director of non-fiction television and film, returns to Sundance with his fourth film to be considered in the U.S. Documentary Competition (after "A Place of Our Own," "The Murder of Emmett Till," and "The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords"). "Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of ...
- 1/22/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Stanley Nelson, the legendary director of non-fiction television and film, returns to Sundance with his fourth film to be considered in the U.S. Documentary Competition (after “A Place of Our Own,” “The Murder of Emmett Till,” and “The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords”). “Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of …...
- 1/22/2010
- Indiewire
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