Due to the very nature of the conflict worth exploring, there’s an unfortunate dearth of contemporaneous fiction films made about the Black experience in Jim Crow, pre-Civil Rights Act America. Few white filmmakers wanted to touch it. Fewer Black filmmakers...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a Home Video Hovel review. The most arresting credit in the opening titles of Daniel Mann’s For Love of Ivy isn’t the listing of the cast,...
The most arresting credit in the opening titles of Daniel Mann’s For Love of Ivy isn’t the listing of the cast, even though it includes Sidney Poitier, Beau Bridges and Carroll O’Connor. It isn’t even the notice that the music...
