October 16, 2019
SAMSON (SAMPSON)
DescriptionDescription Wajda's Samson is a transposition of the Biblical story of the muted prisoner who, after suffering temptation, brings death gloriously upon himself and his captors. Samson (played with a spare, haunting authority by the French actor, Serge Moulin) is in the filmmaker's terms a shy young Jew who is taunted for the crime of...
October 16, 2019
SANKOFA
DescriptionDescription An epic production on black slavery, Sankofa was produced, written, directed and edited by Haile Gerima. The film links directly to the Ethiopian-American director's previous work as another statement on African history and its relevance to black society today. The theme is contained in the title: Sankofa, referring to an elderly, white-painted drummer on...
October 16, 2019
THE PROMISED LAND (ZIEMIA OBIECANA)
DescriptionDescription One of Wadja's greatest films, now beginning to be more widely recognized, "The Promised Land is adapted from a novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, written at the turn of the century, treating the drama of nature and the philosophy of peasant life. A prophetic vision of the industrial revolution impinging on the pastoral life of...
October 16, 2019
A RAGE IN HARLEM
DescriptionDescription Directed by African American Bill Duke, and starring an all black cast, A Rage in Harlem is a hard-hitting opportunity for fine performers. A deal about to go sour opens the film, as Slim (Badja Djola) and his trusted sidekicks meet with other underworld criminals to pass over a stolen trunk of gold ore....
