African American Cinema on DVD
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Live on the Sunset Strip
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 Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Richard Pryor, Julie Hampton, Jesse Jackson, Gene Cross Directed By: Joe Layton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Comedic genius richard pryor explores various topics as well as his own personal tragedies in this hysterical yet emotionally stirring concert performance. Special features: subitles in english and spanish production notes interactive menus theatrical trailer scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/27/2007 Starring: Richard Pryor Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R. |
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American Experience - The Murder of Emmett Till
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Publisher: PBS (Direct) Starring: Andre Braugher, Rose Jourdain, Clarence Strider Jr., Richard Heard, Pat Antici Directed By: Stanley Nelson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Comedic genius richard pryor explores various topics as well as his own personal tragedies in this hysterical yet emotionally stirring concert performance. Special features: subitles in english and spanish production notes interactive menus theatrical trailer scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/27/2007 Starring: Richard Pryor Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R. |
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Sheba, Baby
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Dick Merrifield Directed By: William Girdler Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Super sexy soul sister Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) is hotter than dynamite in a role she fills with fiery determination. Proving she's cool, tough and glamorousa female fantasy Wonder Woman (Los Angeles Times), Grier delivers a riveting, gutsy performance in this hard-hitting thriller that leaps from one death-defying scene to the next. Sheba Shayne is a private eye summoned to her hometown to help her father stop the mob from moving in on his loan business. But she gets too close to the fire, narrowly escaping the blast of a car bomb. |
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American Pimp
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Conan O'Brien, Dennis Hof, Rudy Ray Moore, Antonio Fargas, Carol Speed Directed By: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Urban auteur filmmakers, the Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents) hitthe mean streets with an "incredibly entertaining and charismatic" (Shout) expose on real-life pimps. A "snappy, stylish documentary" (The New York Post) containing "blunt, raw power and stylistic energy" (The Hollywood Reporter), American Pimp is "a primer on pimp craftand culture" (Shout) that takes you into the shadowy world of prostitution, "putting on the screen everything you ever wanted to know about pimps" (Nuart). Cutting straight to the heart of the world's oldest profession, this intimate portrait of infamous "mack-daddies" like Filmore Slim, C-Note, Gorgeous Dre and Rosebudd is eye-opening and shocking. From the dirty streets of New York, L.A. |
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Daughters of the Dust
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Publisher: Kino Starring: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula Hoosier, Umar Abdurrahamn Directed By: Julie Dash Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Working with a theme and history that's obviously dear to her heart, first-time writer-director Julie Dash's exquisitely alive film chronicles the last days of the Gullah, an Americanized West African people in danger of losing their identity. Dash makes up for some overly schematic dialogue and an occasionally pokey pace with some strong performances (particularly Cora Lee Day as the sternly matriarchal Nana) and an absolutely wonderful visual sense (kudos should also go to her ace cinematographer Arthur Jafa, whose dazzlingly sumptuous imagery surely inspired Jonathan Demme's later Beloved). A rapturously textured, wholly mesmerizing glimpse into the Gullah culture. --Andrew Wright. |
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Slaughter
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn, Cameron Mitchell, Don Gordon Directed By: Jack Starrett Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Ex-pro football hero Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra) is El Mucho Macho (Interview) in this fast-paced revenge fest highlighted by 'slick values and direction long on action (Variety)! Featuring hair-raising auto chases and bloody shootings at a lightning pace (Motion Picture Herald) and co-starring Rip Torn, Slaughter is an exercise in unmitigated mayhem (The Hollywood Reporter)! Ex-Green Beret Slaughter (Brown) sets out toget the mafia man who blew up his folks car with them still in it! But when he blows up a planeload of mob henchmanhe finds himself the pawn of Feds who were also on the trail. Ordered to tail the mob murderers to South America, Slaughter will use any means possiblefrom bedding a beautiful mafia babe (Stella Stevens) to blowing up a few vehicles of his ownto get his man! The appropriately titled Slaughter (New York Daily News) is one killer entertainment!. |
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Tongues Untied
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Publisher: Strand Releasing Starring: Marlon Riggs Directed By: Marlon Riggs Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Marlon Riggs`s portrayal of homophobia and racism caused controversy during Tongues Untied`s original 1991 airing on PBS`s P.O.V. series and contributed to the national debate about the National Endowment for the Arts funding for art with nudity, gay themes, and pointed political commentary. Riggs`s stories are fierce examples of homophobia and racism: the man refused entry to a gay bar because of his color; the college student left bleeding on the sidewalk after a gay-bashing; the loneliness and isolation of the drag queen. The stories also affirm the black gay male experience: protest marches, smoky bars, snap divas, humorous musicology, and vogue dancing. |
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G.
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell, Andre Royo, Andrew Lauren Directed By: Christopher Scott Cherot Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A tragedy-filled story of a young great gatsby-ish hip-hopper named summer g who falls for a middle-upper class sistah while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber summer g spends 10 years building a hip-hop empire & then moves to the hamptons where he finds the object of his affection. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Richard T Jones Chenoa Maxwell Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R. |
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Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
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Publisher: Pbs (Direct) Starring: Joe Morton Directed By: Amber Edwards Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A tragedy-filled story of a young great gatsby-ish hip-hopper named summer g who falls for a middle-upper class sistah while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber summer g spends 10 years building a hip-hop empire & then moves to the hamptons where he finds the object of his affection. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Richard T Jones Chenoa Maxwell Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R. |
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
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Publisher: First Look Pictures Starring: Mary Alice, Andre Rosey Brown, Mark Daniel Cade, Wing Chen, Kieu Chinh Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Dwayne and his sister are Vietnamese siblings who were adopted by an African-American couple. Now in their mid-20s, they both have chosen different paths, but when they learn that their biological mother is coming to Los Angeles, they eagerly await the reunion. This drama is both funny and moving in an emotionally rewarding journey through the tapestry of one group of immigrants searching for what it means to call themselves a family.. |
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