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‘A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks’ Trailer: New Doc Looks At The Career Of Legendary Photographer

November 4, 2021 3:11 pm

Since filmmaker John Maggio jumped from PBS's "Frontline" to HBO, he's remade himself into a documentarian par excellence. 2017's "The Newspaperman" tackled the storied life and career of Washington Post journ...

Gordon Parks: The Overlooked Films Of A Legendary Black Artist [Be Reel Podcast]

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Noah Ballard

August 12, 2020 3:05 pm

News, Podcasts

Only in a career as pioneering and storied as Gordon Parks' could an achievement like "first Black director of a Hollywood studio movie" fall into the second paragraph. Yet, Parks' significance as a photog...

Claire Denis Is Using Quarantine To Write A Script & Watch Films From Michael Mann, Nagisa Oshima & More

Charles Barfield

April 28, 2020 11:45 am

News

Clarie Denis, like just about every other filmmaker on the planet dealing with COVID-19, finds herself at home right now, not able to continue the work she wanted to do for her next feature. But that doesn’t m...

RIP Issac Hayes (1942 – 2008)

Rodrigo Perez

August 11, 2008 12:33 pm

News

Stax Soul icon and blaxploitation funk composer Issac Hayes passed away this weekend at the age of 65. The "health fanatic" and former voice of the "South Park" character Chef was found dead next to a treadmill...

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