I don't know much about Huey P. Newton at all. Up to the point when i seen this movie, if you told me the mans name I would have had no idea who he was, but now I do. I saw this movie the first time on tv. I was channel surfing and I came across this movie. After watching it for a sec. I could not turn the channel. Roger Guenveur Smith is absolutly wonderful in this movie. I was blown away. Such passion in his acting. I still don't know much about Huey P. Newton, but watching this movie has changed my perspective on what the Black Panthers were all about. Check this movie out. Its amazing......
GREAT FILM- AWFUL DVD
I reviewed this befroe and they would not put it up, why? I did not cuss, I merely suggested that something was quite foul smelling with the way this man is STILL being treated. I suggested that Spike Lee, could of sold his basketball tickets for the dough it would cost to at least put some chapter stops on this DVD. American wedding,the movie with all the white folks in it gets audio commentary, six documentaries,16 page booklet. But make a film about Huey Newton, and you get no booklet, no chapter stops, no biography, or documentaries. You could of jammed this DVD with hours of documentaries, and t.v. appearances that HUEY did but NO! Not even CHAPTER STOPS, poor huey.
This story is a strong representation of a book that captured the imagination of many urban African Americans in the late 1960s. The U.S. and local governments were actively moving against Black Americans in the same spirit as U.S. governments now move to implement Homeland Security. The movie and the book that it is based on reflect the reality based paranoia that many educated African Americans experienced. The Spook who sat by the Door is not meant to be realistic about how successful Black revolution was. It portrayed the narrowed range of realistic alternatives that African Americans face when your govenment has declared war on its own minorities. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ivan Dixon DVD Release Date: Released the 27 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee's striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera. Except for four quick glimpses of black-and-white autopsy photos, the picture stays clear from the bombing. Lee remains with the faces, the girls' friends, families, and the historic figures of the era. They've all grown up since the bombing but their memories haven't faded. The vital facts of the case are certainly here: the troubled history of Birmingham, the court proceedings, friends' last run-ins with the girls. What touches us deeper though are... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Maxine McNair - Chris McNair - Howell Raines - Wamo Reed Robertson - Wyatt Tee Walker Director(s): Spike Lee DVD Release Date: Released the 08 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This is an excellent film. It gives a straightforward narrative of Che's life, covering it from his time as a child in Argentina thru the Cuban Revolution, and onward to his death in Bolivia in 1967. I cannot say more; it is done very, very well.
The special feature section, where the filmmaker traces out Che's journey across Latin America isn't that great. It's interesting seeing some of the sights along the way, but I personally think he is too melodramatic in his narration. . .trying to make it seem like his journey with his camera crew is similarly arduous to the one Che made. . . Sadly, the short film stops somewhere in Chile, and we don't get to see Macchu Piccu or the Amazon or the Leper Colony. I wouldn't buy the film just to watch this.
Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm's lifetime, and how these two great... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Denzel Washington - Angela Bassett Director(s): Spike Lee DVD Release Date: Released the 18 January 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Spoken like a (...). How can this airbrain claim that black ppl bo-janglin, sa- sucking and samboing was a good thing cos they could pay their bills and it was just comedy? Sure, comedy at the expense of ppl suffering from such demeaning antics. I guess this idiot feels that slavery and degradation of a culture was in good taste and approved as being universally ethical. Aussie dude get yur head from down under ground cos u actin like a ostrich and it is not FUNNY! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Mark Daniels (III) DVD Release Date: Released the 14 August 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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