A current documentary airing on Netflix from former New York Times film critic, Elvis Mitchell (who I saw about 20 years ago when he moderated a screening of American Psycho at the Brooklyn Academy of Music). Using the blaxploitation movement of the 1970's as an entry into his thesis, using coping clips & interviews of the actors of the period (sadly many are archival since may have passed) where it was a ripe time to see black faces on the screen (albeit in various degrees of quality) which has not been seen, in this vast capacity, since. If you've never delved into the movement a lot of the films are great fun & some may even achieve the status of art (my favorite of the period is still Trouble Man starring Robert Hooks w/a score by Marvin Gaye) so what are you waiting for?
Review of Is That Black Enough for You?!?
