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Nov 16, 2022 · Elvis Mitchell’s new Netflix documentary Is That Black Enough You?!? is a whirling exploration of a specific slice of Black movie history. Its main point of interest is the 1970s and its borders.
Nov 11, 2022 · The documentary title Is That Black Enough For You?!? comes from many different sources.. The phrase is a reference to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem, co-written and directed by Ossie Davis ...
Written and directed by Elvis Mitchell, a film critic, producer, radio show host and passionate cineaste, Is That Black Enough for You?!? provides a remarkable history of African American cinema. The documentary, which Mitchell narrates in a high-spirited tone, gets underway in Hollywood's golden age but primarily focuses on the delights of ...
Nov 16, 2022 · With so much ground to cover, and all of it covered thoroughly, Is That Black Enough for You?!? feels a but rushed near the end. Mitchell argues that the end of the Blaxploitation era came about when its signature movements were paid homage by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever as “an off-white take on Black cool” that hit the mainstream.
With Is That Black Enough for You?!? (the title referencing a recurring line from Ossie Davis’s 1970 benchmark Cotton Comes to Harlem ), Mitchell takes a personal and panoramic approach, expressing his own experiences as a viewer while detailing the cinematic and political histories that led to this extraordinary flowering of a newly ...
Film critic Elvis Mitchell examines the craft and power of African American films released from the landmark era of the 1970s.-----#wickednesday #documentary...
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Oct 28, 2022 · While vast in its scope, “Is That Black Enough for You?!?” can’t quite hold up to the weight and breadth of all its material, specifically in the final third, where its pace becomes slightly ...
