Mal ,'Ariel'
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Antoine Fuqua's had an interesting time of it -- he didn't come out of the gate with a "black" movie -- his first was The Replacement Killers. His movies, although I only really like the one with Denzel, are pretty diverse racially. As opposed to the obsessed Spike Lee, the or the black-project homing device that is John Singleton.
Can't, off the top of my head, think of any other current black directors. I'm not quite ready to include Mario Van Peebles in that group.
There's someone else with a non-ghetto movie recently, isn't there? I can't think who either, which is why I'm all Fuqua on the brain. Also I read an interesting profile of him in the Boston Globe a couple of weeks ago.
They could take a cue from MIIB and call the I, Robot sequel II, Robot.
Well, Clark Johnson from Homicide: Life on the Street directed S.W.A.T., right? I didn't see that movie but I thought it was non-ghetto. Before that, I recall he had a decent stint as a director of TV shows. Perhaps it's too early to see how he'll fare as a feature film director, with only one theatrical release under his belt.
There was also a black female director--err, also an actor-turned-director, whose name I'm blanking on right now--who made Eve's Bayou, which I liked quite a bit. But that was several years ago.
We, Robots?
Heh. I'm trolling through IMDB, and this is one of the blackest resumes I found.
I wouldn't call Singleton or Lee ghetto -- Lee especially has too much bougie in him. But it is about race for him, it seems. For Singleton, it seems less about race, more just stories with black folk in.
I kind of meant the black movie ghetto, not movies about the ghetto. But yeah.
Also, yeah Clark Johnson! I fucking loved SWAT.
Also, yeah Clark Johnson! I fucking loved SWAT.
It was really loud. But it was fun.
Didn't the Hughes brothers make From Hell? British period movies are evidently the only way african-american directors "cross over". One of them did the pilot for the US Touching Evil, also. Good show, but nary a person of color. Except for punchline psychiatrist, who only appeared in the pilot.