Must-See Movies for the Black and/or "Feminist" Talented Tenth

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >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

Well, all of the above -- not just _G. I. Jane_ -- are trite, and 
_that_ is the point!  _The Matrix_ & _Fight Club_ are somewhat more 
complex ("ironic") & visually interesting -- but trite nonetheless.

Yoshie