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Christopher St. John is best known for his role as a radical in the original "Shaft," but "Top of the Heap" showed his fearless filmmaking . Why you should know his work.
It’s All About Almodóvar in this month’s issue. Plus Branagh on Belfast, excellent new animations Flee and Belle, Jean Renoir interviewed and the Black Film Bulletin’s tribute to Menelik Shabazz
*Here’s the moment Johnny Britt fans have been waiting for is finally here: The legendary singer and trumpet player has released his timely and much-anticipated song, “Peace Officer.” Malcolm Jamal Warner is written, produced, arranged, mixed and performed by Britt. With civil unrest in the nation and all over the world, Britt has written a song for this moment in history. In these unprecedented times of police shootings and injustice, Johnny looks through the eyes of the police officer behind the trigger… Britt and Warner, an Emmy-nominated, spoken word artist as well as actor and...
Top Of The Heap is an ACAB text for the ages Watch This o ffers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: To kick off Black History Month, we’re looking back on genre films by unsung or underappreciated Black filmmakers. Advertisement We first see Top Of The Heap’s beat cop protagonist George Lattimer as he surveys a muddy brawl between construction workers and hippies. “Bullshit!” he snarls before the frame freezes on a low-angle shot of him in riot gear. A title card appears: “Produced, Wr...
Of chicago, but inside his home was always an island of sanity, supportive, creative environment. what was different about your family? >> lupe: my mother and my father were very intelligent, and politically oriented, and active so, you know, i got book smart and street smart, you know. >> anthony: floyd webb is an old family friend. this is lupe's mom shirley as becomes quickly apparent, she is along with being an extraordinarily good cook and extraordinary and determined human being. man, this is so outrageously, delicious, wow. the whole time we're eating by the way people moving in and out...