Tag Archives: BFI
Ghost Dog Day
In conjunction with England’s Black Star celebration of black actors in film and televison, BFI published an article in praise of Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai on Monday, and I couldn’t agree with its assessment of the genre-bending hip-hop-hit-man flick. This piece focus’s on Forrest Whitaker’s performance as the title character. [...]
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Tagged BFI, Black Star, England, Forrest Whitaker, Ghostdog: The Way of the Samurai, hit man, Jim Jarmusch, kung fu, mob
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Unfinished Kubrick
On November 28, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was re-released in remastered, digital form in the UK. I haven’t been able to confirm when it will be screening in the U.S. but I’m hoping that some form of BFI’s sci-fi celebration will be making its way to the states soon. While the spacefaring film [...]
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Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A.I., BFI, Napoleon, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, The Aryan Papers
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