"The Life and Death of the Black Movie" special - 1981 - reviews - Sneak Previews Ebert & Siskel
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2019
- This is "The Life and Death of the Black Movie" special episode by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" from 1981.
Movies featured are:
Coffey
Fort Apache, The Bronx
Nighthawks
Brubaker
The Devil and Max Devlin
The Blues Brothers
The Hunter
Stir Crazy
Lilies of the Field
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Shaft
Sounder
Superfly
Slaughter
Claudine
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Blacula
Buck and the Preacher
Malcolm X
Wattstax
The Great White Hope
Lady Sings the Blues
The Wiz
Penitentiary 
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Two film critics who REALLY cared about movies and how they influence our society. They didn't have to do this special but they did because they wanted to point out inequality on the screen
You can't manufacture or legislate cinematic talent into existence. The most Hollywood can do is create multiple platforms for everyone to be able to tell their stories, but they can't create the talent and imagination to get them there out of thin air.
I'm white and Shaft, Sounder and Superfly are mainstays in my movie collection!
Good taste has no colour!
I remember watching this with my father when it originally aired on our St. Louis PBS station.
I always liked Yaphet Kotto. He always played a good part no matter what he was in.
Alonso Mosley , FBO!
Sorry FBI.
He was good. RIP to him. Loved him in Midnight Run in 1988.
Interesting and thoughtful clip. Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Freddie’s Dead’ from the ‘Superfly’ soundtrack makes me smile every time I hear it. Thanks for uploading!
Should be noted that "The Blues Brothers" had trouble finding places to show, in certain spots, because theatre owners didn't want to book a "Black Film" Belushi went on an interview rampage over it.
I had no idea ! I love BB !
Where did you hear that?
Thanks for the info.
5 years later it would all change with Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It”, followed by Robert Townsend’s “Hollywood Shuffle” in 1987 (co-starring Keenan Ivory Wayans, who himself would create several classics along with his brothers).
N these 2 always supported BLACK FILMMAKERS and actors. They fought for spike lee ESPECIALLY with DO THE RIGHT THING and MALCOLM X
It changed way before that; In 1984 when Beverley Hills Cop became a smash hit, a film written for a white actor called Sylvester Stallone, who decided not to make it. I would say that film paved the way for the black blockbuster. Before then, Hollywood still thought that a black star could not "carry a movie" on their own. Then the likes of Spike & co. solidified the lower budget success of black movies. Alas that fizzled out in the 1990s after movies like, Just Another Girl on the IRT... :-/
Exactly are going to mention Spike Lee kind of brought back the black Cinema especially the success of do the right thing and then we had John Singleton Boyz in the Hood and then the Hughes Brothers Menace to Society after that the black Cinema took off and Eddie Murphy had a hand in that two in the early 80s
@@bobrew461 Eddie Murphy was #1 box-office by 1987 I believe.
In an interview, Spike Lee said Black movie audiences were startled by the kissing scenes in She's Gotta Have it because they weren't even showing a Black couple kissing in movies for years prior.
Remember loving the movie Sounder as a little boy. Was very sad when Paul Winfield passed away. He was a great actor.
1981: The year BEFORE Eddie Murphy hit BIG - with 48 Hours and then Trading Places
(still one of the best comedies of that decade)
Damn. "Penitentiary." I've been wanting to know for DECADES which movie clip I heard that dialogue: "Being at the wrong place at the wrong time" and "I don't box. I kill". This has been a pebble in my shoe for so long that my foot got used to it and the callus absorbed it. And now, here it is, I can't believe it.
You my STUFF!!!
@@1986SSMONTECARLO It's also in the DIE HARD movie.
How ahead of their time...They would be so happy this past decade
Well, sort of but what would they say about too much blacks winning Oscars. Was cause they earned it or because they were black?
@@chicovoylez3216 they would never have made a comment like that
Sounds like something you're thinking of
@@chicovoylez3216 I think they would champion the actors that won them. They tend to usually see potential and champion the actors that end up winning any Oscars.
@@chicovoylez3216 I think their point is that there is a diverse audience for different movies. It's not right to only put out movies for white audiences. But, in those days, the big studios had all the power. It's a totally different picture now. I'm super excited to see Nope this weekend. How many Black directors were making blockbuster movies with Black leads in 1981? Zero.
Amazing that a few years later there would be a resurgence of black films, thanks to Spike Lee.
Sounder is amazing!
Gene Wilder and Rich Pryor were absolute comedy dynamite together!
The biggest star of 80’s would be Eddie Murphy so things did change
They forgot Cab Calloway had a huge pt in Blues Bros. Aretha Franklin ,Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, & James Brown had small pts
In 1981 the Blaxploitation films had faded hard, corny as most were and tired stereotypes growing old, but I don't believe the black actors faded due to anything other than a lack of intrinsically captivating actors. That was soon to change, and changing as this was made--Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, the Wayans, Will Smith, Mario Van Peebles, Lawrence Fishburn, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, and many other fine talents were just on the cusp of breakouts. Most of their films weren't just "black", but all-audiences, and the American public proved that they LOVED these actors by coming out in droves to see their excellent films. Put any black actor in a crappy screenplay and they'll fade as fast as any other race.
C Jackie Brown
Then Madea showed up and went all Gangsta on the white people box office
They probably would admire Tyler Perry as a mogul and as an actor, but would feel he would need to hire other screenwriters and directors.
Oh look at how "high-minded" S and E are here.
Bill Cosby....if they could only see the future.
do realize Roger's wife was blk?
Maybe just maybe. skin color is not infinitely utterly fascinating to everybody in the entire world.... Chinese want to see Chinese Indians wanna see Boliwood.. People want to be entertained assortively primarily. Groups of People need to write and make the movies they want to see.
Most of the country isn't a NY Italian or jew, but There are a lot of movies about them. I am white but you can't deny that blackness is a big part of the country's history and ongoing makeup. Culturally, politically what have you...
Shut up
If they only knew! Today they’d need to do a show on the life and death of the white movie!
They probably would love what’s happened today. The reality is that while they had their TV programs, Hollywood has made the same kinds of movies for decades. Siskel & Ebert would champion the talent that has gotten notice by the press and the awards bodies. They probably would feel that most of the public’s lack of willingness to broaden their taste is the problem, as well as studios being obsessed with making sequels, remakes, and reboots, even with so-called “Oscar bait.”
You’re an absolute idiot, and I also guarantee you’re poor
I TRULY MISS THEM. In a lame SJW SOY BOY FEMITERRORIST WORLD today we are lost without men keeping it real to their opinions. They always supported diversity n indie black FILMMAKERS. Kudos to beinf brave makin an episode like this where they are hints away from EDDIE MURPHY, SPIKE LEE and DENZEL
It helped that Sneak Previews was on PBS rather than on broadcast syndication, where commercial sponsors were a concern.
You sound psychotic
Please. The Wiz flat out SUCKED. Diana Ross as Dorothy? GTFO!
So all Black actors are "Helpers" when they COSTAR in a movie with a white actor? That is the most condescending thing I have ever heard a movie critic say. It just sounds so demeaning and racist. How did he get away with this? Yaphet Kotto COSTARS in the Academy Award nominated "Brubaker." Kotto has more dialogue than most of the white actors in the film. Billy Dee Williams plays Stallone's partner in the cop movie "Nighthawks", why does Siskel refer to him as "Stallone's helper?" Somebody should have done a show on how racist Siskel was.
Oh get off your soapbox. If he was a racist he wouldn't have been addressing the whole black/white actor concept to begin with. You're just some leftist wing nut looking to complain. Make me sick. I should vomit in your eye.
Siskel wasn’t saying that at all to demean black actors. He was saying that clearly in defense of them, in how the white studio CEO’s at the time likely saw them as.
He wasn't the one being racist OR condescending on this show! The film producers were! While Yaphet and Billy Dee eventually became well-known on the big and small screen, they didn't have "star power" at the time. Yaphet had to play a Bond villain in "Live and Let Die" and Billy Dee had to play a "frenemy" to Han Solo in "Empire Strikes Back" to get any "mainstream attention" from white AND black moviegoers. Do your homework before you decide to attack a man who's seen more movies in a week than most of us have in a year...