February 2023 Movies

•  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• Candyman (2021) Dir. by Nia Dacosta, tw: police violence
• Thomasine and Bushrod (1974)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Part One (1968)
• The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) Dir. by Radha Blank
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) I was named after Jessica Rabbit
• Cooley High (1975)
• Emma Mae (1976)
• Alma's Rainbow (1994) Dir. by Ayoka Chenzira
• Black Girl (1972)
• Souls of Sin (1949)
• Posse (1993)
• Decision to Leave (2022) tw: suicide. First movie I saw in a theatre since 2019
• Blood of Jesus (1941)
• Cleopatra Jones & the Casino of Gold (1975)
• Hurricane Season (2009) tw: Katrina aftermath footage
• Chameleon Street (1989)
• King Richard (2021)
• Sheba Baby (1975)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974) tw: Bill Cosby :(
• Race the Sun (1996)
• A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (1982)
• Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
• Harlem on the Prairie (1937)
• Shaft in Africa (1973)
• Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)
• Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
• Reet, Petit and Gone (1947)
• Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926)
• Clemency (2019) Dir. by Chinonye Chukwu
• Hit Man (1972) tw: rape
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) tw: discussion of rape
• Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)
• The Butler (2013)
• Neptune Frost (2021) Co-dir. by Anisia Uzeyman
• The Scalphunters (1968)
• Dope (2015)
• Greased Lightning (1977)
• I Am Not A Witch (2017) Dir. by Rungano Nyoni, tw: child death
• Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)
• The Emperor Jones (1933)
• Cornbread, Earl & Me (1975) tw: police violence
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) tw: child death
• Kimi (2022) tw: rape
• We Have a Ghost (2023)
• Like Cotton Twines (2016) Dir. by Leila Djansi, tw: rape, FGM, child death
• Sergeant Rutledge (1960) tw: discussion of rape
• Learn to Swim (2021) Canadian
• Bat*21 (1988)
• Rock City aka Sound of the City: London 1964-73 (1973)
• Bless Their Little Hearts (1983)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• Finding Kendrick Johnson (2021) tw: images of people murdered from racist violence
• Island in the Sun (1957)
• Queen & Slim (2019) Dir. by Melina Matsoukas, tw: police violence