August 1, 3pm, 2021 Uptight (1968) Jules Dassin, 1h 44 min Free online Screening and Discussion Intended as an updated version of The Informer, the first film in our series, Uptight (also known as Up Tight!) is a 1968 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. Based also on the novel The Informer by Liam…(Read More)
August 15, 3pm, 2021 Captain Thomas Sankara, 2012 ? 1h 41m LANGUAGE French with English subtitles Register for Free Screening and discussion A portrait composed of archives of Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso between 1983 and his murder in 1987. Ready to liberate his country and transform the mentalities of his fellow citizens, contesting the…(Read More)
Depicting Black Militancy August 29, 3pm, 2021 Intruder in the Dust (1949) Clarence Brown, 1h 27m Register for Free Online Screening and Discussion Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is a strong, proud African-American man accused of murder in 1940s small-town Mississippi. As the town’s white residents prepare to lynch him, a teenage boy…(Read More)
Sun., Sept 26, 3pm, 2021 Top of The Heap (1972) Christopher St. John • Drama • 94m Free Screening & Discussion: Christopher St. John in-person online With much akin to Abel Ferrara’s “Bad Lieutenant” with striking similarities, Top of the Heap is a 1972 American drama film directed by and starring Christopher St. John.[2…(Read More)
Say Amen Somebody, US 1983, Sat, Sept 21, 2019, 1:45 pm 210 W 87th St, Chicago, IL Please try to purchase tickets in advance https://www.studiomoviegrill.com/ticketing/start/say-amen-somebody/chatham/2019/09/12/01/05/pm Call me join us for a screening and lively discussion of the legacy of…(Read More)
DCP, color, 118 min. Director: Bill Duke. Production: Public Forum Productions, Ltd. Producers: Elsa Rassbach, George Manasse. Screenwriters: Leslie Lee, Elsa Rassbach, Ron Milner. Cinematographer: William Birch. Production Designer: Maher Ahmad. Editor: John N. Carter. Music: Elizabeth Swados. Cast: Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder. Rich in characters and…(Read More)
Sat, Dec 1, 7pm | Fanon: Black Skin/White Mask w/Lumumba: Death of A Prophet Chicago Filmmakers 5720 North Ridge Avenue 7:00pm -10:00pm Buy Tickets NOW! Frantz Fanon: ‘Black Skin, White Masks’, 1996, UK, 70 minutes” Director: Isaac Julien Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of the life and work of…(Read More)
Black World Cinema Screening Saturday, Nov 23, at Connect South Shore. 6-8pm 2226 E 71st St. Dark Stars: on the Trail of the unseen, discovering the surreal, the magical and political. Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon (1984) Director: Luc De Heusch Presents the history of research on the Dogon since the…(Read More)
To Wound the Autumnal City: AFROFUTURISM Films 2 @Chicago Filmmakers Zombies, Apocalypse and Dystopias October 13, 2018, 7:30 pm Chicago Filmmakers 5720 N. Ridge Ave. (enter from Hollywood side) “It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.” ? Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren AFTERMATH…(Read More)
Grow Greater Englewood & Black World Cinema, Chicago present FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING Thursdays, Aug 16th, 20 & Sept 6 58th and Halsted, on the Englewood Trail Cinema up top, on the ENGLEWOOD TRAIL Films! Food! Fun!! Edutainment! We playin’ it like a video DJ(VJ) Black Panther Animated Series Every Week Short Films, Local Filmmakers…(Read More)