Uptight (Uptight!)

Uptight

“More fascinating as thought experiment than it is satisfying as finished film, Uptight is still a complicated, contradictory experience that’s worth the effort. How often do you come across something that’s an update of classic John Ford movie, this time substituting Irish revolutionaries for a Black Panthers-like group, co-written by Ruby Dee, starring many of the best black artists of the era, and directed by Jules Dassin, of all people, that explored the traumatized psyche of the Civil Rights Movement in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination? Exactly, this is a once in a lifetime confluence of talents and ideas that’s fascination outweighs its demerits.   The strangeness of Uptight’s existence doesn’t stop at its assembly of talent in front and behind the ca” read more