Interviews
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- Malcolm Lee -Director of The Best Man
- " Film is such a powerful medium that you just can't put anything out there. It's
influencing society and it also shapes the world view of us."
by Nasser Metcalfe
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- Nia Long - Up Close and Personal Part 1
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"I'm extremely passionate about our youth, and I'm putting together some
things in the next couple of years."
by Rachel
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- LL Cool J - Gets DeepPart 1
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"He's a God not worthy of worship and yet these people
worship him. So what's the best way to say that than to name him God, put it out there,
show that devilish behavior and let people make that judgement call."
by Rachel
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- Matt Mailer - Director of The Money Shot
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"The character Quinn is about the perpetuation of stereotypes. He is
looking to make his film interesting."
by Margretta Brown
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- Kwyn Bader - Director of BET's Loving JezebelPart 1
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"Part of what made me feel like I could make films was Spike making
them. I love the fact that he puts together a very precise vision in
his work and that has definitely influenced me."
by Blair Smith
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- Taye Diggs - Straight to the Point
- Taye Diggs ante ups to blackfilm.com's Nasser Metcalfe about Black box-office appeal and the idiom - "crossover."
by Nasser Metcalfe
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Articles
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- Cleopatra Jones: Black, Beautiful, and Bond
- "Cleopatra Jones was released later in the blaxploitation cycle and
therefore displayed most elements of previous blaxploitation films."
Blaxploitation commentary Part 3; by Chris Norton
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- Back Talk - Post your opinion online every month.
- WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT'S BEING DONE TO US? Part 2 A response to
Gordon Parks' ideologies on filmmaking and the contributions of
African-Americans to the mainstream American experience.
by N.Y.U. filmmaker, James Richards.
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- Industry Buzz
- Does Oprah ever stop working? Harpo Entertainment will debut with a magazine in the spring of
2000. (more)
by Shelby Jones
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- Community Update
- On Tuesday August 31, 1999, blackfilm.com hosted a private screening and
fundraiser for Booker T. Mattison's film, The Gilded Six Bits...
by Shelby Jones
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What We Are Reading
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- Black Picket Fences
- Black Picket Fences by Dr. Mary Patillo-McCoy
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Video Interviews
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For these digital interviews you will need Real Player. Real Player may be downloaded free at
real.com
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- Malcolm Lee
- The director of Universal Pictures' The
Best Man talks to blackfilm.com
following the
advance screening of his first studio released film.
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- John Singleton
- discusses Shaft and describes what the movie will and will not be.
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- Mel Jackson
- Soul Food's Mel Jackson tells blackfilm.com that he was discovered on a Chicago bus.
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- Kwyn Bader
- Loving Jezebel's Kywn Bader gets digital. Video interview by Blair Smith.
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