>George Tillman Jr., _Men of Honor_ (starring Cuba Gooding Jr.), 2000
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>William Friedkin, _Rules of Engagement_ (starring Samuel Jackson), 2000
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>John Singleton , _Shaft_ (starring Samuel Jackson), 2000
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>David O. Russell, _Three Kings_ (with a bit of Ice Cube), 1999
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>Kevin Rodney Sullivan, _How Stella Got Her Groove Back_ (based on the
>novel by Terry McMillan & starring Angela Bassett), 1998
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>Barry Sonnenfeld, _Men in Black_ (starring Will Smith), 1997
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>Theodore Witcher, _Love Jones_ (Larenz Tate, Nia Long, etc.), 1997
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>Ridley Scott, _G. I. Jane_ (starring Demi Moore), 1997
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>David Fincher, _Seven_ (starring Morgan Freeman), 1995
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>John Singleton, _Boyz N the Hood_ (starring Laurence Fishburne & Cuba
>Gooding Jr.), 1991
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>Yoshie
I'm surprised you left out "The Matrix" by the Waschowski Brothers. Brilliant fucking political film, with Fishburne as St. Paul to Keanu Reeves's Second (or was it First?) Coming. And keeping on the white boy tip, try Fincher's "Fight Club," a much misunderstood, anti-consumerist masterpiece. Everytime I see those corporate towers implode at the end as the Pixies sing "Where Is My Mind," I fairly weep.
Disagree about "G.I. Jane" though -- unless you include it as kitsch.
DP