From "Modern Lusts," Berghahn 2020, 340PPErnest Borneman not only wrote the greatest detective novel set in the movie-business, with one of the best titles, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937), but was also a screenwriter, editor, producer, distributor and director who worked closely with two cinema colossi, John Grierson and Orson Welles. He was also a painter, musician, revered jazz critic and historian of African-American life, a radical agitator and sexologist whose stated aim was to destroy the patriarchy. Modern Lusts, the first biography of this protean polymath, reveals a man who did everything, knew everyone, and remained in the forefront of avant-garde art and politics, Black liberation and sexual freedom, like some ultra-woke Zelig. Never in the field of human culture was so much done, so many met, now known to so few.Born in Berlin in 1915, Borneman attended Karl Marx school and by 15 had met Brecht, with whom he collaborated over the decades,...
- 12/23/2020
- MUBI
Just when we thought we'd seen it all from the Black Panther cast and crew, director Ryan Coogler left us in awe once again. During Sunday night's Bet Awards, Ryan and Michael B. Jordan accepted the award for best movie, but it was Ryan's moving speech that had the entire crowd applauding. After thanking everyone responsible for the film's immense success and giving a shout-out to Black Twitter, he had one request for his fans.
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"If you can travel to Africa, go," he said. "And if you can't go, teach your children about Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyatta, and all the amazing Africans that we attach to still as African Americans here today." Not only is he responsible for one of the most significant movie releases ever, but Ryan wants fans to learn about African history,...
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"If you can travel to Africa, go," he said. "And if you can't go, teach your children about Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyatta, and all the amazing Africans that we attach to still as African Americans here today." Not only is he responsible for one of the most significant movie releases ever, but Ryan wants fans to learn about African history,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Perri Konecky
- Popsugar.com
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