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Dec 18, 2020 · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Directed by George C. Wolfe. With Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman. Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
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- Drama, Music
- George C. Wolfe
- 2020-12-18
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Dec 7, 2023 · Casting Bayard Rustin is a critical filmmaking choice. After seeing Colman’s performance, one can’t imagine anyone else but him in the role. You previously collaborated with him in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, where he played a supporting role. How did you come to make him your leading man in Rustin? It was an organic process.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the 1982 play of the same name by August Wilson. The film stars Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts.
Nov 3, 2023 · In “ Rustin ,” producer and director George C. Wolfe turns the spotlight on Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. The film reunites Wolfe with his “Ma...
Feb 12, 2021 · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe will direct Rustin, a movie about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.
Ma Rainey sings with the voice of the rural, Black south; her flashy persona and ravaging blues a conduit and a salve for the joy and pain of generations. But the musical winds are ever-shifting, and brash trumpeter, Levee, burns for a more progressive sound – whatever the cost may be.
