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JUNE 2000 - JUST GETTING STARTED! blackfilm.com a weekly? Yes We Are. With the dynamic pace of show-business merging with the horsepower of the internet, providing you with more timely information is important to blackfilm.com. We hope that you will make our site your official stomping grounds on the web. We are testing the service this week and will return each and every week with new materials for you and about you. Did we bite?

In this edition of Features, check out our Q&A with the multi-talented composer Terence Blanchard. Terence's film scoring is so legendary that Time Out New York called Blanchard, "the jazz generation's premier film-scoring machine." With that said, please read what he told blackfilm.com.

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
 

Terence Blanchard
Q & A WITH TERENCE BLANCHARD
Terence's film scoring is so legendary that Time Out New York called Blanchard, "the jazz generation's premier film-scoring machine." With that said, please read what he told blackfilm.com.
Interviewed by Lee Moore.

John Amos
JOHN AMOS - BEFORE COSBY, JAMES EVANS WAS THE FIRST DAD OF BLACK LIFE.
"When I would pose arguments about J.J.'s role being too stereotypical, I was regarded as a negative factor. It ultimately reached a point where it was inflammable, I mean, spontaneous combustion could happen at any minute."
Interviewed by Margretta Browne.

Wendell Pierce
PIERCE IS FIERCE
I moved to NY to study at The Juilliard School. While living with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, I studied at school during the day and went to the jazz clubs at night. I learned to act from Jazz musicians because they understood how…
Interviewed by Shelby Jones.

Wendell Pierce
SPIDERMAN IS COMING TO THE BIG-SCREEN THANKS TO THE PEN OF WRITER/DIRECTOR DAVID KOEPP
Writing parts for Blacks and Latinos, as well as casting them…is of enormous concern to me, and to most other writers I know… not out of any PC thing, but just because…
Interviewed by Shelby Jones.

TRAILBLAZER OF THE MONTH
As African-Americans involved in film there are so many people we owe our current artistic freedom to. If it weren't for people like Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee and the many pioneers in between where would we be?

Our Trailblazer for the month is Laron Batchelor, partner Starpower.

Interviewed by Sekou

REGGIE ROCK BYTHEWOOD - BEING HONEST AND ALL ABOUT THE ART
After writing and directing his own plays, and completing the prestigious Disney Writers Fellowship, his first job as a television writer was on the highly praised A Different World. This experience was rewarding to him because...
by Nasser Metcalfe

 


ARTICLES
 

BLACK FILM PLUS WHITE FILM CRITIC EQUALS?
There are some who purport that film is just film, that ostensibly there is no significant difference between films that feature predominantly white casts and films that feature predominantly black casts. Wouldn't that be nice?
by Sekou

THE GHETTO MATRIX
Like the Matrix in the movie, the ghetto matrix was developed to protect, maintain and enrich itself. It has evolved to be self-perpetuating, requiring little upkeep to stay functioning. It is not in the creators interest for the people to escape. The inhabitants are discouraged from leaving both physically and mentally
by James Richards

COMMENTARY
When Gwyneth Paltro said, "And the Oscar goes to Kevin Spacey," my hopes sank like the Titanic. My mind wondered if there is any real American Beauty for how could Denzel not win?
by Shelby Jones

JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, THE OSCARS WENT TO…
BEST PICTURE: American Beauty
BEST ACTOR: Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
BEST ACTRESS: Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry

THE OSCAR'S…DON'T YOU JUST LOVE EM?
We received numerous letters expressing dissatisfaction with the Oscar choices...Here is a snippet of what you had to say.

 


INDUSTRY FEATURES
 

MAKE THE BOX OFFICE
No Will Smith yet, but Big Momma Is In The House, Gone in Sixty is number one and the mission is still on.

BLOWING A SPOT FILM FESTIVAL: NO ORDINARY FESTIVAL
Nearly 400 people attended Cinema Shorts:A Woman's Perspective 2000, a three day film and video festival which highlighted the work of emerging women directors with a special emphasis on Latin American and African American women films.
by Latrice Dixon.

 

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