“Documentary On Reggae Legend Lee Scratch Perry In Theaters In March” and other filmic links…
Shadow And Act: “Titled The Upsetter, named after Perry’s 1969 album, and directed by indie filmmakers Adam Bhala Lough (The Carter, Bomb The System) and **Ethan Higbee **(The Anti-Fascist), the film, which THR says has been in the works for some 7 years, will make its open on Friday, March 25th at **Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent **theater, where it’ll play for a 1-week run, before traveling to Portland, Long Beach, New York, Boulder, Houston, Boston, Detroit, and a few other cities, in successive weeks, each also for 1-week runs.”
“Francis Ford Coppola, copyfighter”
Cory Doctorow: “I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep, he said, ‘I was so happy when this young person took from me.’ Because that’s what we want. We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that’s how you will find your voice.”
“Penning Hollywood: A White Boy’s Game”
Shadow And Act: “I wasn’t quite sure about his sentiments. In fact I found it quite puzzling and a bit of a contradiction in itself. It’s either we are well represented and profitable or not. If we are well and evenly represented and the audience wants to see these characters and stories, why would it be hard to present studios with screenplays that feature a WOC protagonist? Why would a woman of color as lead not be bankable? Also, the films he mentioned were big productions based on biopics and featuring in front and behind the lens, highly established artists. In a way, they are the exception and a very narrow one at that.”
“Water Sculpture movie”
David Pescovitz: “Artist Shinichi Maruyama created this magical and elegant Water Sculpture Movie.”
“Bill Cosby’s forgotten ‘militant’ documentary”
Shadow and Act: “And you have to consider that this was a very daring thing for Cosby to do at the time. He was the co-star of one of the most popular TV shows at the time, I Spy, and was considered by many to be a “safe and non-threatening” black man. So, for him to show his angry, militant outrage against racism and how black people had been portrayed in films, and their massive contributions throughout history ignored, was shockingly radical.”