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Black Westerns
An often overlooked aspect of the western genre is the emergence of the Black-led films born around the Civil Rights era and continuing throughout the century. With essential context from guest programmer and film scholar Mia Mask, The Criterion Channel is now presenting a series of these works, including Rutledge (1960), Duel at Diablo (1966), The Learning Tree (1969), El Condor (1970), Skin Game (1971), Black Rodeo (1972), Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Legend of Black Charley (1972), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974), Posse (1993), Buffalo Soldiers (1997), and Rosewood (1997).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan)
Following her breakout with Jackie Chan in Police Story and before her iconic roles in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Olivier Assayas,...
Black Westerns
An often overlooked aspect of the western genre is the emergence of the Black-led films born around the Civil Rights era and continuing throughout the century. With essential context from guest programmer and film scholar Mia Mask, The Criterion Channel is now presenting a series of these works, including Rutledge (1960), Duel at Diablo (1966), The Learning Tree (1969), El Condor (1970), Skin Game (1971), Black Rodeo (1972), Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Legend of Black Charley (1972), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974), Posse (1993), Buffalo Soldiers (1997), and Rosewood (1997).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan)
Following her breakout with Jackie Chan in Police Story and before her iconic roles in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Olivier Assayas,...
- 3/12/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
New hire brings close to 20 years of experience in arthouse film.
Clemence Taillandier has joined Kino Lorber as director of theatrical sales after working for the past year as a virtual cinema consultant and theatrical booker.
Taillandier brings close to 20 years of experience in arthouse film distribution and audience development, booking and promotion, and has worked in theatrical sales and bookings for boutique distributors such as Zeitgeist Films, Film Movement, Music Box Films, and Good Deed Entertainment.
She reports to Kino Lorber senior VP theatrical, non-theatrical distribution and acquisitions Wendy Lidell.
Taillandier’s recent role in virtual cinema consultancy dovetails...
Clemence Taillandier has joined Kino Lorber as director of theatrical sales after working for the past year as a virtual cinema consultant and theatrical booker.
Taillandier brings close to 20 years of experience in arthouse film distribution and audience development, booking and promotion, and has worked in theatrical sales and bookings for boutique distributors such as Zeitgeist Films, Film Movement, Music Box Films, and Good Deed Entertainment.
She reports to Kino Lorber senior VP theatrical, non-theatrical distribution and acquisitions Wendy Lidell.
Taillandier’s recent role in virtual cinema consultancy dovetails...
- 3/11/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Against the star-spangled, quilted backdrop of what looks like it could be a friendly, amateur Fourth of July talent show, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, and the company of the Fta Show raise their fists and middle fingers to the United States Armed Forces. They’re accompanied by the raucous cheers from thousands of enlisted service members who make up a fraction of the reported 64,000 total GI attendees over the course of the Fta Show’s tour through U.S. military bases in Hawai’i, the Philippines, and Japan. At each station they delight in having an outlet to tell their employers to screw off and set the date to get them back home.
It’s hard to call an anti-Vietnam doc anyone’s idea of a good time, which is the exact expectation F.T.A—the film, the show it documents, and the stars of both—so brilliantly subverts to its advantage.
It’s hard to call an anti-Vietnam doc anyone’s idea of a good time, which is the exact expectation F.T.A—the film, the show it documents, and the stars of both—so brilliantly subverts to its advantage.
- 3/10/2021
- by Shayna Warner
- The Film Stage
By 1971, America's involvement in Vietnam had steamrolled onward in full combat-&-bombing mode for six solid years, just about as long as the U.S. has currently been occupying Iraq. They're different wars, but similar enough to make the evidence presented in the long-censored, long-buried, long-bootlegged film "F.T.A." (1972) all the more astonishing: it was then, more than midway through the first Nixon term, that a couple of full-on movie stars (Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda) helped gather together a band of lefty anti-war musicians, actors and activists, and devised a cheesy vaudeville show to act as counterpoint to the Bob Hope pro-war paradigm. And then they toured, but not at home for other activists or mere American voters, but on or around military bases, for G.I.s, beginning at Fort Bragg (which wasn't filmed) and ending up bouncing around the Pacific Rim from one installation to another. The delighted...
- 3/3/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Jane Fonda's controversial '70s docu-film where she was featured actively opposing the Vietnam War is set to be released on DVD.
Fonda was a prominent political activist in the 1960s, opposing America's conflict in the Asian country. She teamed up with Donald Sutherland and Fred Gardner in April 1970 to form the Fta (Free The Army) tour, an anti-war road show.
Their protests were made into a movie that contained strong criticism of the war of by service men and women.
The film, called "F.T.A.," was released in 1972 but was pulled from theaters a week later. Director Francine Parker blamed pressure from the Nixon White House for making the film "disappear."...
Fonda was a prominent political activist in the 1960s, opposing America's conflict in the Asian country. She teamed up with Donald Sutherland and Fred Gardner in April 1970 to form the Fta (Free The Army) tour, an anti-war road show.
Their protests were made into a movie that contained strong criticism of the war of by service men and women.
The film, called "F.T.A.," was released in 1972 but was pulled from theaters a week later. Director Francine Parker blamed pressure from the Nixon White House for making the film "disappear."...
- 2/12/2009
- icelebz.com
Jane Fonda's controversial documentary opposing the Vietnam War is to be released on DVD - 37 years after it was pulled from cinemas and withdrawn from circulation.
The actress emerged as a prominent political activist in the 1960s, opposing the longrunning American conflict in the country.
Fonda teamed up with Donald Sutherland and Fred Gardner in 1970 to form the FTA (Free The Army) tour, an anti-war road show, and their protests were filmed for the documentary.
The movie hit cinemas in 1972, the same week Fonda made a controversial trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam, visiting opposition forces.
A week after its release, the film was removed from theatres, with director Francine Parker blaming pressure from the White House for making the movie "disappear".
But now the film will be available to watch for the first time since its limited release, with Docudrama Films planning to release it in a DVD format later this year, according to New York Post gossip column PageSix.
The actress emerged as a prominent political activist in the 1960s, opposing the longrunning American conflict in the country.
Fonda teamed up with Donald Sutherland and Fred Gardner in 1970 to form the FTA (Free The Army) tour, an anti-war road show, and their protests were filmed for the documentary.
The movie hit cinemas in 1972, the same week Fonda made a controversial trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam, visiting opposition forces.
A week after its release, the film was removed from theatres, with director Francine Parker blaming pressure from the White House for making the movie "disappear".
But now the film will be available to watch for the first time since its limited release, with Docudrama Films planning to release it in a DVD format later this year, according to New York Post gossip column PageSix.
- 2/12/2009
- WENN
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