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Spike Lee started the last resurgence in Black cinema. After She's Gotta Have It, along came
John Singleton, The Hughes Brothers, The Hudlin Brothers, and the meteoric rise of Denzel and
Wesley. Hollywood started taking note of the box-office appeal offered by Black actors and
directors. At the end of the millennium, Malcolm D. Lee is poised to take the reigns and
re-ignite a resurgence in Black cinema. With the assistance of Spike and a solid educational
background, Malcolm brings us The Best Man. Could it be this year's best film?
Breaking ground with Malcolm are young directors such as Kwyn Bader (BET's Loving
Jezebel), Booker T. Mattison, and Stacey Holman. Actors on the rise are Nia Long, LL Cool
J, Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut and Mel Jackson. This month blackfilm.com celebrates this New
Generation of filmmakers as they bring us some new style. Thanks for bringing us more than the
old-school, gang-bangin in the hood flicks. Big ups to Spike for being in the pit to help get
this thing going again.
"You've got to watch a lot of movies. You have to analyze a lot of
movies. You've got to do a lot of writing and be critical."
"Part of what made me feel like I could make films was Spike making
them. I love the fact that he puts together a very precise vision in
his work and that has definitely influenced me."
"I'm extremely passionate about our youth, and I'm putting together a
couple of things in the next couple of years."
"He's a God not worthy of worship and yet these people worship him. So
what's the best way to say that than to name him God, put it out there,
show that devilish behavior and let people make that judgement call."
Straight to the Point - Taye Diggs ante ups to blackfilm.com's Nasser
Metcalfe about Black box-office appeal and the idiom - "crossover."
WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT'S BEING DONE TO US?
The Best Man is a very entertaining movie about a successful group of
college friends who's lives are slightly interrupted and ultimately
brought closer by two events; a wedding and a book release.
Who would have thought that when Ice Cube lyrically blasted the line
"*%# the police " that in 1999 he would be considered a very good actor?
Blue Streak smoked the competition with a $19 million opening weekend.
And, even more important, it was pretty funny. Lawrence proves that he
is a master of keeping at a joke 'til he finally gets a laugh out of
you.
Malcolm Lee, the director of Universal Pictures' The
Best Man talks to blackfilm.com following the
advance screening of his first studio released film.
Morris Chestnut Talks about staring in The Best Man.
John Singleton discusses Shaft and
describes what the movie will and will not be.
Soul Food's Mel Jackson tells blackfilm.com
that he was discovered on a Chicago bus.
Loving Jezebel's Kywn Bader gets digital.
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