[3] February 10, 2012
Blaxploitation films were by, for and about African Americans. Made cheaply throughout the 1970s, they made stars of performers like Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree and became pop cultural icons.
[3] Blaxploitation films were by, for and about African Americans. Made cheaply throughout the 1970s, they made stars of performers like Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree and became pop cultural icons.
[5] The problem with Ronald Colman [6] (1891-1958) was that he made acting look too easy. In 1935 he was cast as Sidney Carton, the hero of M-G-M’s A Tale of Two Cities [7]. Colman’s performance is as impressive today as it was when first seen more than 70 years ago.
[9] It’s one thing to make a raunchy comedy. It’s another to tell a serious story about someone coping with a life-threatening disease. 50/50 [10] puts those two genres together so that they complement rather than cancel each other.
Bob Butler talks about the many film offerings at the Kansas City Public Library in the month of February!
Fox 4 movie critic Shawn Edwards helps the Library celebrate Black History Month with the four-part film series Too Good to Pass Over: A Celebration of Black Oscar Winners on Saturdays in March.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/movie-quiz-blaxploitation
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/movie-quiz-blaxploitation#comments
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-tale-two-cities-1935
[6] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172903/
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Ronald+Colman%22+title:%22A+Tale+of+Two+Cities%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-tale-two-cities-1935#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-5050-2011
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Jonathan+Levine%22+title:%2250+50%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16041#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/february-films-library
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16038#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/too-good-pass-over-celebration-black-oscar-winners
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16021#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=40
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=37
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=38
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=39
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=42
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=43
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=44
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=45
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=62