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“Harder They Fall” Comes to Netflix

The Tennessee Tribune 04 Nov 2021

By Ron Wynn ... But director Jeymes Samuel doesn’t want anyone to deem this film something odd or unusual ... The legendary Oscar Micheaux included Westerns in his host of films over a century ago ... Oscar-winning actress Regina King plays Buck’s partner in crime Treacherous Trudy ... ....

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The Black Horror-Movie Canon Is So Much More Than ‘Get Out’

The Daily Beast 31 Oct 2021

Since its beginnings with directors like Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams (also of Amos ’n’ Andy fame), Black horror has been forced to overcome behind-the-scenes hurdles like those Crain met during Blacula ... The Black horror canon dates back to the silent era, with Oscar Micheaux’s horror-inflected race film The Dungeon.

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The Harder They Fall: 'Raising hell' in Netflix's all-black Western

BBC News 26 Oct 2021

"Oscar Micheaux was making black Westerns a century ago, and the big screen saw notable examples via Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte in Buck and the Preacher and Mario Van Peebles' Posse ... Netflix has not yet won best picture at the Oscars, and this won't be the film which does.

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Book World: A panoramic history of Black cinema, from forgotten auteurs to 'Black Panther'

The Philadelphia Tribune 24 Oct 2021

In 2016, Oscars host Chris Rock joked ... Oscar Micheaux, a self-taught Black author turned filmmaker ... Poitier broke racial ground with his roles in movies such as “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”; won a best-actor Oscar for “Lilies of the Field”; and by the early ‘70s got to direct his own string of crowd-pleasing comedies.

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Columbus native Wil Haygood examines history of Black actors in films in his new book

The Columbus Dispatch 11 Oct 2021

From there, Haygood dove into cinema’s earliest days, researching maverick Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and trying to understand pioneering Black actors such as Hattie McDaniel, whose Oscar win for “Gone With the Wind” did not grant her access to a wider variety of parts.

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Lights! Cameras! Action! Academy Museum features Hollywood history, hoopla and inclusivity

People's World 01 Oct 2021

As two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks noted during his in-person remarks at the Sept ... (See the attached video of the author waving “his” Oscar and mouthing an acceptance speech.) ... Another gallery is dedicated to the silent era’s pioneering African-American filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux, and the racist history of minstrelsy is explained.

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Melvin Van Peebles wrote the do-it-yourself playbook for Black filmmakers

The Philadelphia Tribune 01 Oct 2021

Black Americans have long played a role in the financial success of Hollywood ... The film was screened at the 1967 San Francisco International Film Festival, where it had been retitled, “The Story of a Three-Day Pass.” It was the first film released in the United States and directed by a Black filmmaker since Oscar Micheaux’s “The Betrayal” in 1948.

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Melvin Van Peebles, Godfather of Black Cinema, Dies

Nashville Pride 30 Sep 2021

Much like Black film pioneer Oscar Micheaux, Van Peebles’ films were celebrated and condemned for exploring controversial topics and for what some critics called technical issues. Using a distribution technique like Micheaux, Van Peebles rented out theaters in Black cities and showed his films to sold out audiences keeping all of the profits.

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Go inside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles

The Willoughby News-Herald 29 Sep 2021

There’s also a section highlighting filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, who was the son of slaves and a prominent Black filmmaker in the early 20th century who wrote and directed more than 40 films ... “Homesteader,” which reads “Oscar Micheaux’s Great Photoplay,” above the title of the film.

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Go inside the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles

East Bay Times 27 Sep 2021

There’s also a section highlighting filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, who was the son of slaves and a prominent Black filmmaker in the early 20th century who wrote and directed more than 40 films ... “Homesteader,” which reads “Oscar Micheaux’s Great Photoplay,” above the title of the film.

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Chicago-born filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles made his feature debut outside America. He had to.

Finger Lakes Times 25 Sep 2021

Essential Films.” ... Like Illinois-born Oscar Micheaux before him — the key Black filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century is the subject of a new documentary premiering locally next month at the Chicago International Film Festival — Van Peebles made a career despite every closed door and racially prescribed limitation imposed on his ambitions.

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The Academy Museum Finally Arrives: Inside the New $484M Temple of All Things Movies

The Hollywood Reporter 23 Sep 2021

By also including Bruce Lee costumes and Oscar Micheaux film clips, “we wanted to show that there’s not one narrative encompassing the history of moviemaking.” ... OSCAR STATUETTES ... McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar but forced to sit at a segregated table at the ceremony in L.A.

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Hollywood ignored women. Academy Museum's female curators aren't making the same mistake

Finger Lakes Times 22 Sep 2021

When Jaffe was researching the Black author, film director and independent producer Oscar Micheaux, who is considered the most successful African American filmmaker of the early 20th century, she learned that Micheaux's wife, Alice B ... "So with Oscar Micheaux, we went out of our way to honor Alice B.

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The Oscars are a lousy gauge of film history. The Academy Museum is already doing ...

The Los Angeles Times 21 Sep 2021

As you pause to admire a Winsor McCay drawing or read about the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Alice Guy-Blaché, you may marvel at the range of film history the curators have sought to compress into some 250,000 square feet of viewing space.

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‘Dune,’ ‘French Dispatch,’ world premieres about ‘Mayor Pete’ and Harold Washington add to the Chicago ...

Finger Lakes Times 21 Sep 2021

CHICAGO — This year’s Oct ... 13 at the Music Box Theatre ... 13 ... The festival’s annual Black Perspectives series this year includes, among others, “Citizen Ashe,” about the tennis champion and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe, and “Oscar Micheaux — The Superhero of Black Filmmaking,” chronicling a key 20th century Chicago screen pioneer. ——— ... ———. .