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Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (514 movies items)"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★ NOTES: Screened as part of the Sidney Poitier season, the transport system screwed me over and I came in just as the film was about to start, so I couldn’t know the source of the print. Impressively clean print until midway through the film, in which it takes a couple of hits of damage, loses stability for a while and is a little less clean from then on. DATE: January 19th 2025 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank"
My trips to the cinema 2025 (178 movies items)"SCREENING: 35mm, Sidney Poitier: His Own Person DATE: January 19th CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank"
Sidney Poitier - Movies I've Viewed
Cinematic Firsts (214 movies items)" *Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. *Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black actor to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. *Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black actor to be nominated for an Academy Award acting category. *Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. *Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American actor to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. *Si"
Anautix' Movie Diary 2022
“James Baldwin famously derided this as white liberal wish fulfillment, and he wasn’t off the mark. Stanley Kramer’s cinema at its most essential elements is just that, well-intentioned if sanctimonious liberal guilt/fantasy. The Defiant Ones is another entry in that canon as it literalizes elements of racism by shackling the races together in a chain gang. Never mind reality when there’s an elaborate metaphor to explore racial tensions during the civil rights movement. It’s a long-form fable that starts out like The Fugitive, car crash that leaves two prisoners chained together on the run with the law in hot pursuit, before providing a series of moralizing episodes that explore a host of issues. Some of them are great and some of them are heavy-handed in their treatment, more” read more
