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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Dutchman (1967)


















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Based on the play by Amiri Baraka. A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl's advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, drops his "white" disguise, and launches a wild and bitter counterattack on her and on the entire white race.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Three Six Mafia: Choices - The Movie (2001)


















Starring:
  • Isley Nicole Melton
  • Paul Beauregard
  • Cassie Betts
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Shot largely in Three 6 Mafia's hometown of Memphis, TN, Choices examines the conflict between right and wrong and is based on the life of an ex-convict and the choices that he makes trying to get his life on the right track.

Mandabi (1968)

















Starring:
  • Makhouredia Gueye
  • Ynousse N'Diaye
  • Isseu Niang
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A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.