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It's 1980 in the Notting Hill section of London in "Lovers Rock," the second of director Steve McQueen's Amazon Prime series of five Small Axe movies about life in Caribbean
Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis in August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” streaming on Netflix. Photo courtesy of Netflix. Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being white, get to know Wilson’s characters from the outside looking in, film adaptations like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” should be a clarion call for all of us to listen actively, experience deeply, break some bread, and renew our commitment to those ever-elusive concep...
Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman have brought history to life (Opinion) CNN 12/21/2020 Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph © David Lee/DSC_1314/David Lee/Netflix Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020): (L to R) Michael Potts as Slow Drag, Chadwick Boseman as Levee and Colman Domingo as Cutler. Cr. David Lee / Netflix "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," which represents the late "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman's final cinematic performance, is a deft celebration of the blues that showcases the grandeur and travails of creating art as an expression of dignity in a world scarred by Jim Crow ...
comments How strange and wonderful it is to notice that even though Viola Davis' true face is hidden under a layered cake of makeup and gleam in Netflix's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," her co-star Chadwick Boseman is equally unrecognizable at first. In the late actor's final performance for the screen – he succumbed to cancer last summer at the age of 43 – everything we have come to associate with him disappears inside Levee, a gifted trumpeter demanding recognition in a world that would have him scrape for leftovers. Levee is ravenous for fame, but every stage he shares with Ma Rainey is ...
Film critic Sean Burns rounds up the films to watch this holiday season: "Let Them All Talk," "Tenet," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "To the Ends of the Earth," "Sylvie's Love" and "The Midnight Sky." (Courtesy) Back when I worked at a movie theater there was nothing I dreaded more than the eight days between Christmas and New Year’s. Attendance-wise it was like a week of understaffed Saturday nights, with a lot of the year’s most prestigious titles launching, and a trip to the cinema being an activity that families who have been spending far too much time together over the holidays can all...