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SF MOMA Modern Cinema & Entertainment News Courtesy of San Francisco Black Film Festival XX
July 21, 2018

News Courtesy of San Francisco Black Film Festival originally posted July 20, 2018. San Francisco Black Film Festival XX, celebrating its 20th Anniversary shares news of SF MOMA's Modern Cinema, Equalizer 2, Blackkklansman and Diddy's Cry of Cruel "Black Panther!"  Check it out.
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July 20, 2018
 
 
Entertainment News Courtesy of 
San Francisco Black Film Festival Celebrating Year XX
 
SF MOMA
Modern CinemaBlack Powers: Reframing Hollywood, 
Now thru July 29, 2018 Phyllis Wattis Theater
 
San Francisco-For the sixth season of Modern Cinema, SFMOMA and SFFILM present a decades-spanning program exploring African American filmmakers
Film Series was kicked off by Paul D. Miller, DJ Spooky who introduced Oscar Micheaux's 1925 silent film "Body and Soul" starring Paul Robeson with a musical score by DJ Spooky.Photo by Jackie Wright, Wright Enterprises
navigating inside the Hollywood machine and operating outside its boundaries. Black Powers: Reframing Hollywood features work from pioneers such as Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Bill Gunn, whose films of the 1970s were revolutionary and counter to prevailing ideas about Blackness, alongside the resistance-fueled Black independent film movement coming out of the LA Rebellion. Continuing into the 1980s, the series explores the relationship-driven films of Spike Lee and Kathleen Collins that shone a light on a variety of experiences in Black America and inspired a new wave of independent filmmaking. The big budget hits and independent classics of the 1990s paved the way for contemporary directors like Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, and Ryan Coogler, whose films were met with wide acclaim in Hollywood and beyond, demonstrating a full spectrum of compelling stories directed by a growing list of African American filmmakers.
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"Watermelon Woman" by Cheryle Dunye
Introduced by Cheryl Dunye
"Cheryl Dunye plays a version of herself in this witty, nimble landmark of New Queer Cinema. When the fledgling filmmaker becomes obsessed with the 'most beautiful mammy' spied in a 1930s movie, she embarks on a documentary about this 'Watermelon Woman,' along the way unpacking LGBT and Black film history and finding parallels between that Depression-era actress and herself. This is social critique at its most charming and audacious." 
 
House Party by Reginald Hudlin
TICKETS FOR TONIGHT 8:30 P.M.
[Hip-Hop stars] Kid 'n Play defined a generation of teenage schemers and style icons. In this classic '90s teen film, Play's (Christopher Martin) parents are out of town, and he's planning the house party to end all house parties.
"Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
Tickets Saturday, July 21 1:00 p.m.
Based on his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, The Learning Tree established Gordon Parks as the first black director of a major Hollywood studio film. "His victory...in directing The Learning Tree was a victory for all of us," observed the director Melvin Van Peebles of the movie's seminal role in African American culture. 
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Remaining Schedule Through July 29, 2018
 
CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR LONDON BREED
LONDON BREED CONGRATULATED SF CHARLIE WALKER FOR HIS FILM "AMERICA"S STILL THE PLACE" THAT PREMIERED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO FILM FESTIVAL AS JACKIE WRIGHT INTERVIEWED FOR JOHNNIE BURRELL'S WWW.INTERNATIONAL MEDIATV.COM.
MAYOR BREED THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE ARTS...
DENZEL IS BACK
SPIKE LEE & JORDAN PEELE'S 

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