12 FILMS MEME

I've been tagged by Fletch over at Blog Cabins in a meme started by Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre. This was inspired by The Beverly Cinema's recent move to allow Diablo Cody to select 12 movies to run there.

So, I'm presenting my own imaginary picks, for my 12 film festival.

Here are the rules:

1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want.

2) Explain why you chose the films.

3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so I can have hundreds of links and I can take those links and spread them all out on the bed and then roll around in them.

4) The people selected then have to turn around and select 5 more people.


Well, I'd do Black Cult Movie week.
Each day has two films following the day's theme.

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Day 1 - Obrigado Brazil

City of God - This movie is one of my top 5 films of all time.

Black Orpheus - Multi-award winner, a colorful cinematic classic.




Day 2 - Black Director, White Wider Movie

The Negotiator - A typical Hollywood suspense thriller, that brings the entertainment goods.

25th Hour - Spike Lee's love story to New York. The score should have been Oscar nominated.




Day 3 - Ladies First

Daughters of the Dust - First widely released movie by a black female director... In the 90's. Sad, huh? It's haunting telling of lesser known parts of American history, with stunning visuals and strong female characters:



Talk to Me - Criminally underseen, last year's biopic of Petey Greene, should have garnered some Academy nods.

Day 4 - 70's Slavery: Beyond Roots

Mandingo - Hollywood, like the rest of the U.S. would rather forget than film stories about slavery, these days. Even Beloved made folks so uncomfortable, critics panned it (despite the fact that it really wasn't bad) ...It has NOTHING on this. Yeah, it's melodramatic, but 70's filmmakers were braver than we are today ...No flinching, coddling, or softening here.



Drum - Same here.

Day 5 - Modern Black, in Black and White

She's Gotta Have It - Spike Lee's first film, shows the promise in his well-written and dialogue and characters, interesting camera-work, and fully-fleshed out Black characters...Most notably, it's one of the few movies with a black woman at the center.

Killer of Sheep - A modern movie classic, "In 1990, Killer of Sheep was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."^{" -wikipedia}



Day 6 - Burn, Hollywood Burn


Hollywood Shuffle - I figure the best way to end my festival would be with a finger to the system that keeps financing the same old things, despite all the previous evidence of what could be.




Bamboozled - Ditto




And go...

Big Mike
Rachel
Movie Dearest
The Mad Hatter
Skullcave People

Have at it! ;)