It really needn’t be said how much Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture winner “Oppenheimer” has brought the aftershock of the atomic bomb ripping through the public consciousness again.
So the current zeitgeist is as good as any for boutique distributor and arthouse restoration outfit Arbelos to uncover a lost 1961 gem: Peter Kass’ 1961 “Time of the Heathen.” Set in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bomb, the avant-garde drama was shot by American science-fiction artist Ed Emshwiller as cinematographer. The film’s bold visuals are on full display in the exclusive trailer, hosted by IndieWire, below for the re-release of “Time of the Heathen.” Arbelos will open the film at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center on May 10 and at LA’s American Cinematheque on May 12.
Kass, who died in 2008, was best known for his work as a theater instructor in New York, collaborating with the likes of Faye Dunaway,...
So the current zeitgeist is as good as any for boutique distributor and arthouse restoration outfit Arbelos to uncover a lost 1961 gem: Peter Kass’ 1961 “Time of the Heathen.” Set in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bomb, the avant-garde drama was shot by American science-fiction artist Ed Emshwiller as cinematographer. The film’s bold visuals are on full display in the exclusive trailer, hosted by IndieWire, below for the re-release of “Time of the Heathen.” Arbelos will open the film at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center on May 10 and at LA’s American Cinematheque on May 12.
Kass, who died in 2008, was best known for his work as a theater instructor in New York, collaborating with the likes of Faye Dunaway,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Chameleon Street, a true-crime comedy about the fraudster who purportedly passed as a lawyer, a surgeon and even a basketball-player, fell foul of a racist Hollywood. Can it now be a hit? We speak to its director
When he won the grand jury prize at the 1990 Sundance film festival for his debut picture Chameleon Street, Wendell B Harris Jr thought his film just might be a hit. “Gee,” he remembers thinking, “Hollywood is reaching out to me.” But despite the acclaim, Chameleon Street struggled to get a release. Harris never made another film.
Now, three decades later, things are a little different. Chameleon Street – recently hailed by the New Yorker as a masterpiece and one of the 20th century’s greatest independent films – was finally given a US streaming release in 2021, and is available for the first time in the UK, via Mubi and BFI Player. For Harris, this means...
When he won the grand jury prize at the 1990 Sundance film festival for his debut picture Chameleon Street, Wendell B Harris Jr thought his film just might be a hit. “Gee,” he remembers thinking, “Hollywood is reaching out to me.” But despite the acclaim, Chameleon Street struggled to get a release. Harris never made another film.
Now, three decades later, things are a little different. Chameleon Street – recently hailed by the New Yorker as a masterpiece and one of the 20th century’s greatest independent films – was finally given a US streaming release in 2021, and is available for the first time in the UK, via Mubi and BFI Player. For Harris, this means...
- 1/29/2024
- by Fergal Kinney
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s often said that one of the greatest injustices of American movies is that Wendell B. Harris Jr. failed to become one of the legendary progenitors of the indie cinema renaissance of the late 1980s and early ’90s. Or, rather, that a craven industry failed him. While it’s certainly true that he and so many other Black filmmakers of his generation deserved more than they were given, Harris’s reputation needs nothing more than Chameleon Street to secure his place among the greats. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, the film is a fleet, nimble, and knowingly slippery portrait of infamous con artist William Douglas Street Jr. (dazzlingly played by Harris), who at the height of his gamesmanship posed as a surgeon and, so legend has it, performed three dozen successful hysterectomies before being found out, and has spent large swaths of his...
- 10/26/2023
- by Eric Henderson
- Slant Magazine
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, yet criminally underseen for over three decades, Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man William Douglas Street Jr., the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. E
levated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class, and performance in American identity which has lost none of it’s relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, Chameleon Street is a lost masterpiece finally securing it’s rightful place in the independent film canon.
Chameleon Street is now available on Blu-ray from Arbelos Films.
Enter for your chance to win a Blu-ray of Chameleon Street, courtesy of Arbelos Films. Two...
levated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class, and performance in American identity which has lost none of it’s relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, Chameleon Street is a lost masterpiece finally securing it’s rightful place in the independent film canon.
Chameleon Street is now available on Blu-ray from Arbelos Films.
Enter for your chance to win a Blu-ray of Chameleon Street, courtesy of Arbelos Films. Two...
- 8/13/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
Hungarian filmmaker György Fehér's seldom seen 1990 masterpiece, Twilight, gets a 4K restoration treatment by the Hungarian Film Institute and distributed by Arbelos. The LA-based distribution and restoration company is known for their 4K rerelease of such classics as Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie, Matsumoto Toshio's Funeral Parade of Roses, and Wendel Harris's Chameleon Street, as well as fellow Hungarian master Béla Tarr's Satantango and Damnation. Fehér, who only directed two feature films during his lifetime, was a close collaborator on a number of Tarr's films and shared similar aesthetics. Shot by Miklós Gurban (Werckmeister Harmonies), the film is composed entirely of some 50 long tracking shots. And it is stunning. A retiring police inspector (Péter Haumann) is called in to investigate the murder of...
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- 4/17/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Arbelos, a Los Angeles-based boutique film distribution company, has acquired North American rights to the new 4K restoration of Béla Tarr collaborator György Fehér’s landmark but long unseen Hungarian masterpiece “Twilight” (“Szürkület”). The restored version of the film world premiered in the Berlinale’s Classics strand on Monday. Hungary’s National Film Institute handled the sale.
Fehér, who made only two theatrical features, shot the black-and-white film at the end of the 1980s. Based on the crime novella “The Pledge” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, it is the story of a retired detective who uses a girl as bait to try to catch a serial killer.
The 4K restoration, using the original 35mm camera negative and magnetic sound tapes, was carried out at Hungary’s National Film Institute. The color grading was supervised by the film’s cinematographer, Miklós Gurbán.
The film premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in...
Fehér, who made only two theatrical features, shot the black-and-white film at the end of the 1980s. Based on the crime novella “The Pledge” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, it is the story of a retired detective who uses a girl as bait to try to catch a serial killer.
The 4K restoration, using the original 35mm camera negative and magnetic sound tapes, was carried out at Hungary’s National Film Institute. The color grading was supervised by the film’s cinematographer, Miklós Gurbán.
The film premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in...
- 2/23/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
With the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in full swing, and our own Chris Bumbray covering the event, we wanted to know what film is your favorite of Sundance’s top prize: The Grand Jury Prize- Dramatic. From the very first winner (Old Enough) in 1984 to the most recent winner (Nanny) in 2022, let us know your favorite. If you’ve been to Sundance, please share your experience(s) in the comments section.
Favorite Sundance Grand Jury Prize WinnerNanny (2022)Coda (2021)Minari (2020)Clemency (2019)The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)The Birth of a Nation (2016)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)Whiplash (2014)Fruitvale Station (2013)Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)Like Crazy (2011)Winter's Bone (2010)Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (2009)Frozen River (2008)Padre Nuestro (2007)Quinceañera (2006)Forty Shades of Blue (2005)Primer (2004)American Splendor (2003)Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)The Believer (2001)Girlfight (2000)You Can Count on Me (2000)Three...
Favorite Sundance Grand Jury Prize WinnerNanny (2022)Coda (2021)Minari (2020)Clemency (2019)The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)The Birth of a Nation (2016)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)Whiplash (2014)Fruitvale Station (2013)Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)Like Crazy (2011)Winter's Bone (2010)Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (2009)Frozen River (2008)Padre Nuestro (2007)Quinceañera (2006)Forty Shades of Blue (2005)Primer (2004)American Splendor (2003)Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)The Believer (2001)Girlfight (2000)You Can Count on Me (2000)Three...
- 1/22/2023
- by Brad Hamerly
- JoBlo.com
After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.
Metrograph
The insanely packed “Lives of Performers” offers films by Almodóvar, Satoshi Kon, Bob Fosse, Cassavetes, Powell & Pressburger, Rivette—almost too much to count.
Film Forum
Miraculously rediscovered and restored, the Iranian film Chess of the Wind is now playing, while North by Northwest continues; Frankenstein screens on Sunday.
Bam
Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.
Roxy Cinema
Screen Slate has a weekend series of 35mm horror: Anguish and Popcorn on Friday and Sunday, and House of Wax and I Know Who Killed Me on Saturday. Halloween and...
Metrograph
The insanely packed “Lives of Performers” offers films by Almodóvar, Satoshi Kon, Bob Fosse, Cassavetes, Powell & Pressburger, Rivette—almost too much to count.
Film Forum
Miraculously rediscovered and restored, the Iranian film Chess of the Wind is now playing, while North by Northwest continues; Frankenstein screens on Sunday.
Bam
Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.
Roxy Cinema
Screen Slate has a weekend series of 35mm horror: Anguish and Popcorn on Friday and Sunday, and House of Wax and I Know Who Killed Me on Saturday. Halloween and...
- 10/28/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe're thrilled to announce Notebook magazine, a new biannual print-only publication dedicated to the art and culture of cinema, with original contributions by film artists, writers, curators, and archivists about a unique and eclectic array of cinematic subjects. Inside our pilot Issue 0 you'll find Apichatpong Weerasethakul reflecting on his personal journey and Wes Anderson on The French Dispatch and The New Yorker; explorations of moviegoing and odes to movie magazines; conversations between the cinema exhibitors of Milan's Cinema Beltrade and Dubai's Cinema Akil, as well as between directors Emma Seligman and Mike Leigh; movie posters from a milestone MoMA exhibition; sheet music handwritten by Nino Rota; new translations of writings by Yasujiro Ozu; and much more. This issue is printed in a limited edition and available for pre-order to Mubi subscribers only—get yours now,...
- 10/27/2021
- MUBI
After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.
Bam
Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.
Film Forum
4K restorations of North by Northwest starts up and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella have started; Ponyo screens on Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
Three by John Carpenter—The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog—screen this Friday, while prints of Poltergeist and Phantom of the Paradise show on Saturday.
Metrograph
“Get Crazy” offers Cold Water, a 4K restoration of Possession continues, and to celebrate Sisters with Transistors, the series “With Music By…” offers A Clockwork Orange and Forbidden Planet.
Film...
Bam
Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.
Film Forum
4K restorations of North by Northwest starts up and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella have started; Ponyo screens on Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
Three by John Carpenter—The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog—screen this Friday, while prints of Poltergeist and Phantom of the Paradise show on Saturday.
Metrograph
“Get Crazy” offers Cold Water, a 4K restoration of Possession continues, and to celebrate Sisters with Transistors, the series “With Music By…” offers A Clockwork Orange and Forbidden Planet.
Film...
- 10/22/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
“If you want to get a great production deal in Hollywood, all you have to do is be Black, male, and Not Wendell Harris.” This sentiment was used as a running joke throughout Hollywood in the early 1990s, a representation of the attitude the industry held for filmmaker Wendell B. Harris Jr. after the release of his debut film, Chameleon Street.
Unlike many who land in “director’s jail”, however, Chameleon Street wasn’t a big-budget flop or critical disaster. Winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, it seemed like the sky was the limit for the film and Harris Jr.’s career. Instead, he struggled to find distribution, eventually getting a deal from Warner Bros. for a quarter-million dollars so that they could have the remake rights for a remake that never happened.
Chameleon Street is inspired by the real-life story of William Douglas Street Jr.
Unlike many who land in “director’s jail”, however, Chameleon Street wasn’t a big-budget flop or critical disaster. Winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, it seemed like the sky was the limit for the film and Harris Jr.’s career. Instead, he struggled to find distribution, eventually getting a deal from Warner Bros. for a quarter-million dollars so that they could have the remake rights for a remake that never happened.
Chameleon Street is inspired by the real-life story of William Douglas Street Jr.
- 10/21/2021
- by Mitchell Beaupre
- The Film Stage
When Wendell B. Harris Jr. made his first — and, even three decades on, still only — film, “Chameleon Street,” he offered up a scrappy and brilliant debut venture. Based on the incredible true story of Black con artist William Douglas Street, Jr., a man of high intelligence but little formal education, the film follows its genius con man (played by Harris himself) as he sneaks into Yale, pretends to be a French foreign-exchange student, lands a job with “Time,” works as a lawyer, and even performs a stunning number of operations as a surgeon, before eventually being caught.
A witty and sardonic tale of a master impersonator with invigorating and humorous results, Harris served as the writer, director, sarcastic narrator, and star of “Chameleon Street.” The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989, where it took the Grand Jury Prize. And yet Harris’ career never followed the expected path of other lauded breakout filmmakers,...
A witty and sardonic tale of a master impersonator with invigorating and humorous results, Harris served as the writer, director, sarcastic narrator, and star of “Chameleon Street.” The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989, where it took the Grand Jury Prize. And yet Harris’ career never followed the expected path of other lauded breakout filmmakers,...
- 10/19/2021
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Fox Maxy's Maat Means Land (2020) MoMA has announced the lineup and schedule for “To The Lighthouse,” a thrilling carte blanche program by curator Mark McElhatten featuring new films by Nathaniel Dorsky, Ernie Gehr, Jodie Mack, Dani and Sheilah ReStack, and more, along with older films by Rivette, Joseph H. Lewis, Claire Denis, and Marguerite Duras.An essential annual list, Filmmaker Magazine's 25 new faces of film for 2021 includes Kate Gondwe (the founder of Dezda Films), filmmaker Fox Maxy, Omnes Films (the collective behind Tyler Taormina's Ham on Rye), and others. A24 and Emma Stone’s production company, Fruit Tree Banner, have come together to back Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow. The film, a follow-up to Schoenbrun's debut from this year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, follows...
- 10/13/2021
- MUBI
"I think, therefore I scam." Arbelos Films has revealed a new trailer for the 4K restoration of this award-winning indie comedy titled Chameleon Street, which originally premiered in 1989 at the Toronto Film Festival. it then went on to win the top Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, but has been forgotten ever since then. "Gloriously strange... a lost masterpiece of black American cinema." Wendell B. Harris Jr. stars in, and writes / directs, the film. William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution is to re-invent himself. He becomes a "chameleon", taking on whatever role suits the situation. From reporter to doctor to lawyer, he impersonates anyone he sees a need for and he can earn money being. Based on real people and real stories. This is a bit like Catch Me If You Can,...
- 10/10/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the great restorations of recent years, premiering in the 59th New York Film Festival’s Revivals section, is Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Chameleon Street. Originally debuting at the 1990 edition of the Park City festival, the film is both an enormously entertaining con man film and illuminating study of race. Following a con man from Detroit as he alters identities in an attempt to penetrate different pockets of American life that can be out of reach in a classist system.
Largely unavailable aside from an out-of-print VHS edition and a DVD released in 2007 (now also out-of-print), it has now been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative under the supervision of the director. Following its NYFF screenings, the film will now roll out in theaters––specifically beginning at Bam Cinemas beginning on October 22––and we’re pleased to debut the first trailer.
Largely unavailable aside from an out-of-print VHS edition and a DVD released in 2007 (now also out-of-print), it has now been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative under the supervision of the director. Following its NYFF screenings, the film will now roll out in theaters––specifically beginning at Bam Cinemas beginning on October 22––and we’re pleased to debut the first trailer.
- 10/7/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With Sundance in full swing, we’re looking back at some of the best directorial debuts that premiered at the festival.
House Party (1990)
House Party premiered at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, part of a pack of extremely promising debut features that also included Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, Hal Hartley’s The Unbelievable Truth, and Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street, which took home the top prize. (Apart from those debuts, the main competition also featured Charles Burnett’s To Sleep With Anger, which belongs in a class of its own.) Perhaps those highlights give an idea of why the 1990s tend to be seen as the festival’s golden decade as a taste-making institution. It commanded media attention, but still seemed to hold on to the idea ...
House Party (1990)
House Party premiered at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, part of a pack of extremely promising debut features that also included Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, Hal Hartley’s The Unbelievable Truth, and Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street, which took home the top prize. (Apart from those debuts, the main competition also featured Charles Burnett’s To Sleep With Anger, which belongs in a class of its own.) Perhaps those highlights give an idea of why the 1990s tend to be seen as the festival’s golden decade as a taste-making institution. It commanded media attention, but still seemed to hold on to the idea ...
- 1/27/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Given how much Tambay and other writers for this blog have talked about “Chameleon Street,” urging that it’s a film we all must see, I finally watched it for the first time over the July 4 weekend. It’s been on my… Continue Reading →...
- 7/7/2016
- by Christopher Murray
- ShadowAndAct
Wendell B. Harris, Jr's woefully under-seen and under-appreciated feature film debut "Chameleon Street" is a title that has been written about numerous times on this blog since it was created in 2009. I've read and watched several interviews with the man, so much that I could probably recite his struggles in getting that film made and released, from memory. I actually interviewed Wendell myself for the very first time in 2009, via the S&A livecast (embedded below), during the very early days of the site when we had a podcast; it was maybe one of the most interesting and memorable interviews I'd done. This was around the time when there was some...
- 4/5/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Read More: 20th Stony Brook Film Festival Welcomes 'Best of Enemies,' 'Wildlike' and More Brooklyn's BAMcinématek revealed plans for a six-week-long retrospective screening series that is scheduled to begin in mid-July. Focused exclusively on independent American cinema from the 1980s, the program will feature over sixty films, along with special guests such as directors Ross McElwee and Rob Nilsson. Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle" (1987), a comedy about an African American actor (Townsend) struggling with the limitations of racial representation in Hollywood, will open "Indie 80s" on July 17. The series will conclude on August 27 with a screening of "Chameleon Street" (1989), which follows actor-director Wendall B. Harris, Jr. as he camouflages himself at hospitals, newspapers and court, faking as an expert in a wide range of professions in order to escape his tedious life. Other notable titles include Rob Reiner's classic...
- 6/12/2015
- by Sara Itkis
- Indiewire
Kickstart This: Wendell B. Harris Jr ('Chameleon Street') Returns w/ 'Yeshua vs. Frankenstein in 3D'
Wendell B. Harris Jr is a name that I hope most of you are already familiar with, given how much it's been mentioned on this blog over the last 5 years. The brainchild behind one of the most impressive feature film debuts of the last 25 years (aka "Chameleon Street," a film that, sadly, many still have yet to see), who struggled to get other film projects financed after that, despite the acclaim his feature debut attracted, is back, after over 2 decades, with another feature film. I'll save the lengthy formal intro (google-search "Shadow and Act" and "Wendell B. Harris Jr." together for all our previous posts on him to catch up), and just get right to the...
- 9/4/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
"Chameleon Street" is one of the most slept on films to come out since the late eighties. Wendell B. Harris wrote and directed this film and he based it on the life of a con man named Douglas Street. He took the film to Sundance in 1990 and won the Grand Jury Prize, but ended up leaving without a major distribution deal. If you haven't seen it, buy it, don't rent it. Like "Killer of Sheep," you will have to see it more than once to fully appreciate it. If you've never heard of the film, maybe you've heard of Mos Def and Talib Kweli. On their first album together, the self-titled "Black Star" album, they sampled "Chameleon Street" for the intro...
- 7/29/2014
- by Qadree
- ShadowAndAct
As Tambay said three weeks ago here in his item about the recent London BFI screening of Wendell B. Harris' 1989 film Chameleon Street...you haven't seen it yet? I agree with him 100%. Seriously? You claim to be so serious about black films and Harris' film is one of the most fascinating and unique independent black films ever made. And yet you have't seen it? Why sir! You are a fraud! But seriously, it's a truly incredible film and if you're in the Chicago area, you'll have an opportunity to see it soon when the Black Cinema House in Chicago will screen the film on Saturday March 9th starting at 7Pm. The film will be introduced...
- 2/22/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
So you still haven't seen Wendell B. Harris' Chameleon Street, despite all the yapping we've done about it on this blog over the last 3 years? No? Why not? It's on DVD. It should also be on iTunes. Oh, I see... you're one of those purists, and you refuse to see it if it's not in a theatrical setting, on a nice large screen, and won't see it in any other format? Well, alright. I've got some great news for you then... if you live in London anyway. I know... there always has to be a catch! Brit film critic Ashley Clark is presenting a special screening of Chameleon Street at the BFI Southbank in London, on February 16. But...
- 2/1/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
BrandChannel.com is a site that lists all product placement found within #1 studio feature films, going back to 2001.
Something to pay attention to next time you sit down to watch a movie, and to later discuss, when you and your pals go to Starbucks afterward and order cappuccinos, oblivious of the fact that you might be doing so because a character in the movie you just saw was drinking one
For example… Limitless, last week’s number 1 movie, featured brands that include: adidas, Apple, At&T, Bentley, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Dell, Google, Ibm, Levi’s, Louis Vuitton, Maserati, Mercedes, New York Post, Percocet, Red Bull, Smartwater, St. Regis Hotel, Trump, and Two Men and a Truck.
Several “high end” brands there. I haven’t seen the film however. But since you’re technically supposed to be able to tell who the target audience of the film is, by looking at the brands featured in the film,...
Something to pay attention to next time you sit down to watch a movie, and to later discuss, when you and your pals go to Starbucks afterward and order cappuccinos, oblivious of the fact that you might be doing so because a character in the movie you just saw was drinking one
For example… Limitless, last week’s number 1 movie, featured brands that include: adidas, Apple, At&T, Bentley, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Dell, Google, Ibm, Levi’s, Louis Vuitton, Maserati, Mercedes, New York Post, Percocet, Red Bull, Smartwater, St. Regis Hotel, Trump, and Two Men and a Truck.
Several “high end” brands there. I haven’t seen the film however. But since you’re technically supposed to be able to tell who the target audience of the film is, by looking at the brands featured in the film,...
- 3/27/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Chameleon Street is one of the most slept on films to come out since the late eighties.
Wendell B. Harris wrote and directed this film and he based it on the life of a con man named William Douglas Street Jr. Wendell took the film to Sundance in 1990 and won the Grand Jury Prize, but ended up leaving without a major distribution deal. If you haven’t seen it, buy it, don’t rent it.
Like Killer of Sheep, you will have to see it more than once to fully appreciate it.
If you’ve never heard of the film, maybe you’ve heard of Mos Def and Talib Kweli. On their first album together, the self-titled Black Star album, they sampled Chameleon Street for the intro to the song Brown Skin Lady.
Chameleon Street (Brown Skin Lady Sample)
Chameleon Street makes references to quite a few other films, but...
Wendell B. Harris wrote and directed this film and he based it on the life of a con man named William Douglas Street Jr. Wendell took the film to Sundance in 1990 and won the Grand Jury Prize, but ended up leaving without a major distribution deal. If you haven’t seen it, buy it, don’t rent it.
Like Killer of Sheep, you will have to see it more than once to fully appreciate it.
If you’ve never heard of the film, maybe you’ve heard of Mos Def and Talib Kweli. On their first album together, the self-titled Black Star album, they sampled Chameleon Street for the intro to the song Brown Skin Lady.
Chameleon Street (Brown Skin Lady Sample)
Chameleon Street makes references to quite a few other films, but...
- 3/18/2011
- by Qadree
- ShadowAndAct
And so it all comes to an end… the inaugural Act Now: New Voices In Black Cinema Film Festival. An auspicious start for the Act Now Foundation family, enabled by the hard work of its eclectic staff.
The challenge – putting together a worthwhile 5-day film festival, with virtually no budget, and little time – was met with aplomb. Aaron Ingram and his team came through triumphantly. The programming, like the ActNow staff, was diverse, bold, demanding, and showed good aesthetic judgment – leaving the chaff out of the festival.
5 days in the cold and frigid temperatures of a New York winter, snow and crowded ice-covered streets and sidewalks, didn’t seem to prevent friends, family, neighbors, collaborators and more from the Act Now Film Festival experience. Sold-out or near sold-out screenings weren’t uncommon. We all reveled in the excitement of the moment; the movies of the moment.
The reason why this...
The challenge – putting together a worthwhile 5-day film festival, with virtually no budget, and little time – was met with aplomb. Aaron Ingram and his team came through triumphantly. The programming, like the ActNow staff, was diverse, bold, demanding, and showed good aesthetic judgment – leaving the chaff out of the festival.
5 days in the cold and frigid temperatures of a New York winter, snow and crowded ice-covered streets and sidewalks, didn’t seem to prevent friends, family, neighbors, collaborators and more from the Act Now Film Festival experience. Sold-out or near sold-out screenings weren’t uncommon. We all reveled in the excitement of the moment; the movies of the moment.
The reason why this...
- 2/11/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Must-See Screening Tonight At Bam In Brooklyn, NYC Of “Chameleon Street” + Clips, Interviews , More…
Screening Tonight at 9:30Pm, as part of the ActNow New Voices In Black Cinema Film Festival, at BAMCinematek here in Brooklyn, NY, is the little-seen, must-see riveting drama, Chameleon Street, written, directed by and starring Wendell B. Harris Jr.
It’s our closing night film, as well as what you could call our throwback, retro selection. Though, as I implied, it still feels fresh, since it just hasn’t been seen as widely as I (and other fans of the film) think it should have.
Tickets are $12 and can be purchased in advance Here.
So, if you’re in the NYC area, and are free to attend tonight’s 9:30Pm screening, you’re all Strongly encouraged to do so. You won’t be disappointed!
We’ve talked about the film many times on this blog. I’m certainly a big fan, and I’ve included some of the...
It’s our closing night film, as well as what you could call our throwback, retro selection. Though, as I implied, it still feels fresh, since it just hasn’t been seen as widely as I (and other fans of the film) think it should have.
Tickets are $12 and can be purchased in advance Here.
So, if you’re in the NYC area, and are free to attend tonight’s 9:30Pm screening, you’re all Strongly encouraged to do so. You won’t be disappointed!
We’ve talked about the film many times on this blog. I’m certainly a big fan, and I’ve included some of the...
- 2/9/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Inspired by tonight’s ActNow New Voices In Black Cinema Film Festival closing night throwback screening of Wendell B Harris Jr’s Chameleon Street, I thought about other films that centered around black men (or women) who, using primarily their intellect and wit, con their way into what we could deem white Americana, and do so successfully… mostly anyway; near perfect cons of the white-collar variety.
I couldn’t think of many others. I was almost immediately reminded of Will Smith in 6 Degrees of Separation, based on a play of the same name, about a charismatic, young, gay black man who cons his way into the homes of several of New York’s elite – all of them white – using, much like Douglas street in Chameleon Street, charm, intelligence, with a little luck on his side, as well as the gullibility of his victims.
His con was a different kind of...
I couldn’t think of many others. I was almost immediately reminded of Will Smith in 6 Degrees of Separation, based on a play of the same name, about a charismatic, young, gay black man who cons his way into the homes of several of New York’s elite – all of them white – using, much like Douglas street in Chameleon Street, charm, intelligence, with a little luck on his side, as well as the gullibility of his victims.
His con was a different kind of...
- 2/9/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Well, here we go… ActNow New Voices In Black Cinema (which Curtis & I are curators of) will debut its inaugural film festival from February 4th through the 9th, with all screenings held at BAMcinèmatek, here in Brooklyn, NY, and I’ll obviously most certainly be there!
Tonight, Saturday, February 5th, you’re strongly encouraged to check out the festivals 2 offerings – first, at 6:50Pm, Ava DuVernay’s minimalist drama I Will Follow, will screen. Ava will be present for a Q&A to follow the screening, moderated by Ralph Scott.
And then at 9:30Pm, I’ll be introducing a riveting documentary on Sly Stone, of the band Sly & The Family Stone, titled Coming Back For More. Director Willem Alkema will also be present for a Q&A session after the screening.
For tickets info, go to our page on Bam’s website, which you can access Here. They are available for purchase Now,...
Tonight, Saturday, February 5th, you’re strongly encouraged to check out the festivals 2 offerings – first, at 6:50Pm, Ava DuVernay’s minimalist drama I Will Follow, will screen. Ava will be present for a Q&A to follow the screening, moderated by Ralph Scott.
And then at 9:30Pm, I’ll be introducing a riveting documentary on Sly Stone, of the band Sly & The Family Stone, titled Coming Back For More. Director Willem Alkema will also be present for a Q&A session after the screening.
For tickets info, go to our page on Bam’s website, which you can access Here. They are available for purchase Now,...
- 2/5/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Well, here we go… ActNow New Voices In Black Cinema (which I and Curtis are co-curators of) will debut its inaugural film festival from February 4th (this Friday) through the 9th (next week Wednesday), with all screenings held at BAMcinèmatek, here in Brooklyn, NY, and I’ll obviously most certainly be there!
The five-day festival celebrates up-and-coming Back filmmakers with new narrative features and documentaries programmed alongside classics like Wendell B. Harris, Jr.’s lauded Chameleon Street.
The full lineup of 8 feature films and a shorts program follows below (just about all of these titles – except Heart Of Stone and Money Matters – have been previously profiled and/or reviewed on this blog, and I make note of that where necessary; “Q&A” should be self-explanatory; for tickets info, go to our page on Bam’s website, which you can access Here):
Friday, February 4
2pm: Heart of Stone – Q & A...
The five-day festival celebrates up-and-coming Back filmmakers with new narrative features and documentaries programmed alongside classics like Wendell B. Harris, Jr.’s lauded Chameleon Street.
The full lineup of 8 feature films and a shorts program follows below (just about all of these titles – except Heart Of Stone and Money Matters – have been previously profiled and/or reviewed on this blog, and I make note of that where necessary; “Q&A” should be self-explanatory; for tickets info, go to our page on Bam’s website, which you can access Here):
Friday, February 4
2pm: Heart of Stone – Q & A...
- 1/31/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
director Wendell B. Harris Jr.
As most of you know, Tambay and I are curators of an independent Black film series that has recently expanded into a five-day festival as well – ActNow: New Voices in Black Cinema.
The festival itself starts next Friday, February 4th and runs until Wednesday February 9th, and while we’re showing mostly new cinema the closing film is what we’ve dubbed one of the ‘New Black Classics’, a film most of you are intimately familiar with, Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street (see Quadree’s ’09 fantastic writeup if you’re unfamiliar).
With most of our lineup, ActNow’s blogger Tanya St. Louis has interviewed the directors or producers of the films, and her first is with the esteemed Mr. Harris himself.
Please read it below and help spread the word about this important new film festival.
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Wendell B. Harris Jr. is the...
As most of you know, Tambay and I are curators of an independent Black film series that has recently expanded into a five-day festival as well – ActNow: New Voices in Black Cinema.
The festival itself starts next Friday, February 4th and runs until Wednesday February 9th, and while we’re showing mostly new cinema the closing film is what we’ve dubbed one of the ‘New Black Classics’, a film most of you are intimately familiar with, Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street (see Quadree’s ’09 fantastic writeup if you’re unfamiliar).
With most of our lineup, ActNow’s blogger Tanya St. Louis has interviewed the directors or producers of the films, and her first is with the esteemed Mr. Harris himself.
Please read it below and help spread the word about this important new film festival.
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Wendell B. Harris Jr. is the...
- 1/29/2011
- by Curtis the Media Man
- ShadowAndAct
Many of you may already have heard from Tambay about a new film festival in Brooklyn, NY that both he and I are curators for – ActNow: New Voices in Black Cinema festival (February 4-9).
Now some argue: Who needs another film festival? And to a degree that’s true. But this festival is an extension of our existing quarterly screening series of the same name at BAMcinématek in which we’ve shown Idris Elba’s Legacy, for the first time in the USA outside of the festival circuit, the Bill Withers documentary Still Bill, well before it gained more prominence at bigger venues like IFC Cinemas, and most recently the wonderful Clark Johnson starring indie Nurse.Fighter.Boy
We’ve found that the Black film audience in NYC is grossly underserved and deserve excellence over slapstick spectacle and boldness over standard fare, and so we pick films that show how film explores...
Now some argue: Who needs another film festival? And to a degree that’s true. But this festival is an extension of our existing quarterly screening series of the same name at BAMcinématek in which we’ve shown Idris Elba’s Legacy, for the first time in the USA outside of the festival circuit, the Bill Withers documentary Still Bill, well before it gained more prominence at bigger venues like IFC Cinemas, and most recently the wonderful Clark Johnson starring indie Nurse.Fighter.Boy
We’ve found that the Black film audience in NYC is grossly underserved and deserve excellence over slapstick spectacle and boldness over standard fare, and so we pick films that show how film explores...
- 1/26/2011
- by Curtis the Media Man
- ShadowAndAct
Well, here we go… ActNow New Voices In Black Cinema (which I’m a co-curator of) will debut its inaugural film festival from February 4th through the 9th, with all screenings held at BAMcinèmatek, here in Brooklyn, NY, and I’ll obviously most certainly be there!
The five-day festival celebrates up-and-coming Back filmmakers with new narrative features and documentaries programmed alongside classics like Wendell B. Harris, Jr.’s lauded Chameleon Street.
The full lineup of 8 feature films and a shorts program follows below (just about all of these titles – except Heart Of Stone and Money Matters – have been previously profiled and/or reviewed on this blog, and I make note of that where necessary; “Q&A” should be self-explanatory; for tickets info, go to our page on Bam’s website, which you can access Here):
Friday, February 4
2pm: Heart of Stone – Q & A
4:30pm: Sus (my review w...
The five-day festival celebrates up-and-coming Back filmmakers with new narrative features and documentaries programmed alongside classics like Wendell B. Harris, Jr.’s lauded Chameleon Street.
The full lineup of 8 feature films and a shorts program follows below (just about all of these titles – except Heart Of Stone and Money Matters – have been previously profiled and/or reviewed on this blog, and I make note of that where necessary; “Q&A” should be self-explanatory; for tickets info, go to our page on Bam’s website, which you can access Here):
Friday, February 4
2pm: Heart of Stone – Q & A
4:30pm: Sus (my review w...
- 1/15/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
It’s Armond White day here on Shadow And Act… but this was too interesting to pass up.
A few days ago I received an email from Wendell B. Harris Jr, writer/director/star of Chameleon Street, referencing last year’s kerfuffle between White and the publicity team for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, which we covered on this blog. In case you missed it, in a nutshell, Armond White was barred from press screenings of Greenberg, by publicist Leslee Dart, who rejected White’s invitation to a screening of the movie, thanks to Armond’s alleged bias against and hostility towards not just Baumbach’s films, but Baumbach himself, essentially suggesting a personal vendetta on White’s part.
In Armond’s review of Baumbach’s 1997 film Mr. Jealousy, some interpreted his words to mean that he wished the filmmaker’s mother had aborted him!
And who is Noah Baumbach’s mother?...
A few days ago I received an email from Wendell B. Harris Jr, writer/director/star of Chameleon Street, referencing last year’s kerfuffle between White and the publicity team for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, which we covered on this blog. In case you missed it, in a nutshell, Armond White was barred from press screenings of Greenberg, by publicist Leslee Dart, who rejected White’s invitation to a screening of the movie, thanks to Armond’s alleged bias against and hostility towards not just Baumbach’s films, but Baumbach himself, essentially suggesting a personal vendetta on White’s part.
In Armond’s review of Baumbach’s 1997 film Mr. Jealousy, some interpreted his words to mean that he wished the filmmaker’s mother had aborted him!
And who is Noah Baumbach’s mother?...
- 1/12/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Two of our favorite people – Wendell B. Harris Jr, and Armond White This took place last month, after the screening of Chameleon Street at Bam Cinemateque in Brooklyn, NY. Unfortunately, the entire conversation wasn’t captured, and the camera/sound work is shaky (Bam doesn’t allow recording inside its theaters, apparently), but what’s there is still worth watching (thanks FoxBrownFox for the tip):...
- 8/17/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Well, here we are in the third and final week of our our Amacoast giveaway!
Thanks to all of you who took part in last week’s Shadow And Act/Amacoast Discount Voucher Giveway promotion. The correct answer to last week’s question was, of course, Chameleon Street.
The winner of last week’s voucher was Martina, who wins a voucher to the tune of $20, £20 or €20 to spend on Amacoast.com or Amacoast.co.uk.
Who/what is Amacoast? Amacoast.com is an on-line Black film retailer, which currently stocks over 2,000 DVD titles, across 35 categories, making it a ‘one stop shop’ for access to new and old black films. Set up in November 2009 by 24 year old British-Nigerian entrepreneur Dele Aro, Amacoast.com was conceived to counteract the ‘lack of’ and/or ‘access’ (both in the USA and UK) to broad representation of black images in mainstream media.
Amacoast offers free...
Thanks to all of you who took part in last week’s Shadow And Act/Amacoast Discount Voucher Giveway promotion. The correct answer to last week’s question was, of course, Chameleon Street.
The winner of last week’s voucher was Martina, who wins a voucher to the tune of $20, £20 or €20 to spend on Amacoast.com or Amacoast.co.uk.
Who/what is Amacoast? Amacoast.com is an on-line Black film retailer, which currently stocks over 2,000 DVD titles, across 35 categories, making it a ‘one stop shop’ for access to new and old black films. Set up in November 2009 by 24 year old British-Nigerian entrepreneur Dele Aro, Amacoast.com was conceived to counteract the ‘lack of’ and/or ‘access’ (both in the USA and UK) to broad representation of black images in mainstream media.
Amacoast offers free...
- 8/16/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
So you still haven’t seen Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street, despite all the yapping we’ve done about it on this blog over the last year? No? Why not? It’s on DVD. Oh, I see… you’re one of those purists, and you refuse to see it if it’s not in a theatrical setting, on a nice large screen, and won’t see it in any other format?
Well, alright. I’ve got some great news for you then… if you live in New York anyway
Bam Cinemateque in Brooklyn will be hosting a special screening of Chameleon Street, tomorrow, Tuesday July 6th, at 9:30Pm. But wait, that’s not all… Wendell B. Harris, Jr. himself will be present for a Q&A chat after the screening!
So, get your asses over there tomorrow night, because, if you listened to my podcast interview with Wendell early last year,...
Well, alright. I’ve got some great news for you then… if you live in New York anyway
Bam Cinemateque in Brooklyn will be hosting a special screening of Chameleon Street, tomorrow, Tuesday July 6th, at 9:30Pm. But wait, that’s not all… Wendell B. Harris, Jr. himself will be present for a Q&A chat after the screening!
So, get your asses over there tomorrow night, because, if you listened to my podcast interview with Wendell early last year,...
- 7/6/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Tambay alerted the S&A audience of BAMcinématek’s Contraband Cinema week showings of She’s Gotta Have It, Eldridge Cleaver and Chameleon Street here in NYC. But there are some other great films also showing in this series – docs mostly – that you should check out.
Tomorrow, Saturday July 3rd is what looks to be an interesting flick about the fantastic and notable (also difficult and confusing, but that’s subjective) bi-racial sci-fi writer Samuel Delany, writer of The Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren, and Return to Nevèrÿon series:
The Polymath or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
Sat, Jul 3 at 7pm
Q&A with author and film subject Samuel R. Delany and director Fred Barney Taylor
Science fiction author Samuel R. Delany reminds his readers that revolution is both personal and political. Taylor’s film mirrors Delany’s life as a queer, biracial man whose writings rock the...
Tomorrow, Saturday July 3rd is what looks to be an interesting flick about the fantastic and notable (also difficult and confusing, but that’s subjective) bi-racial sci-fi writer Samuel Delany, writer of The Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren, and Return to Nevèrÿon series:
The Polymath or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
Sat, Jul 3 at 7pm
Q&A with author and film subject Samuel R. Delany and director Fred Barney Taylor
Science fiction author Samuel R. Delany reminds his readers that revolution is both personal and political. Taylor’s film mirrors Delany’s life as a queer, biracial man whose writings rock the...
- 7/2/2010
- by Curtis the Media Man
- ShadowAndAct
What’s Boley? I don’t know. It’s a question that came up on my twitter feed, a question posed by none other than filmmaker Wendell B Harris Jr., writer, director, and star, of the seminally subversive Chameleon Street.
Despite being a 1990 Sundance winner, Chameleon Street gained Mr Harris a name but never a Hollywood directing gig and the film never had distribution. Until now, that is. Some 20 years later, it’s now available on iTunes, so I suggest you give it a look if you’re not familiar with it already.
As described on Harris’ website, “Chameleon Street is a psychological comedy that uses the real-life story of Douglas Street, an infamous Michigan-born imposter, to explore the myth of the American Dream, the paradox of African-American male identity, and the movie medium’s uncanny ability to get under the skin of American Society. It is the quintessential story...
Despite being a 1990 Sundance winner, Chameleon Street gained Mr Harris a name but never a Hollywood directing gig and the film never had distribution. Until now, that is. Some 20 years later, it’s now available on iTunes, so I suggest you give it a look if you’re not familiar with it already.
As described on Harris’ website, “Chameleon Street is a psychological comedy that uses the real-life story of Douglas Street, an infamous Michigan-born imposter, to explore the myth of the American Dream, the paradox of African-American male identity, and the movie medium’s uncanny ability to get under the skin of American Society. It is the quintessential story...
- 4/23/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
I’m always amazed when I run into folks (as I did earlier today) who consider themselves cinema savvy – specifically black cinema savvy – but haven’t seen, and in some cases, haven’t even heard of Chameleon Street! Gtfooh! By the way, a source very close to Wendell B Harris Jr tells me that he’s constantly fielding directorial projects, but it’s a matter of finding one that he actually likes, and that really fits!
- 4/22/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Marsha Warfield is 56 today. Remember her from the popular 80s sitcom series Night Court, playing the uncompromising Rosalind ‘Roz’ Russell, the bailiff? (I need to revisit that show). Marsha continued to work through 1999 (at least that’s where her IMDb resume ends), doing mostly TV, appearing in shows like Hanging With Mr Cooper, Empty Nest, Mad About You and Living Single. I have no idea what she’s been up to since then.
Wendell B. Harris Jr. is also 56 today. His name has been mentioned more than a few times on this blog; he’s even passed through once or twice; so I doubt I need to reintroduce him, especially for those of you who’ve been around. Wendell’s seminal 1989 debut Chameleon Street is a favorite of mine, and the story behind its production, release and influence is one worth knowing, especially for all you filmmakers out there. I...
Wendell B. Harris Jr. is also 56 today. His name has been mentioned more than a few times on this blog; he’s even passed through once or twice; so I doubt I need to reintroduce him, especially for those of you who’ve been around. Wendell’s seminal 1989 debut Chameleon Street is a favorite of mine, and the story behind its production, release and influence is one worth knowing, especially for all you filmmakers out there. I...
- 3/5/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
I doubt Wendell B. Harris Jr and his film, Chameleon Street, are in need of an intro on this blog.
Here’s the press release:
Actor/Writer/Director Wendell B. Harris, Jr. continues efforts to keep his award-winning film, Chameleon Street, among the not-forgotten gems of cinematic history by kicking off 2010 with a launch of his critically-acclaimed film among new releases on iTunes. Chameleon Street is debuting in the iTunes catalog and joins an elite group of films negotiated through aggregate firm TuneCore, as it celebrates twenty years since its’ winning entry at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
Chameleon Street is a psychological comedy that uses the real-life story of Douglas Street, an infamous Michigan-born imposter, to explore the myth of the American Dream, the paradox of African-American male identity, and the movie medium’s uncanny ability to get under the skin of American Society. It is the quintessential story of...
Here’s the press release:
Actor/Writer/Director Wendell B. Harris, Jr. continues efforts to keep his award-winning film, Chameleon Street, among the not-forgotten gems of cinematic history by kicking off 2010 with a launch of his critically-acclaimed film among new releases on iTunes. Chameleon Street is debuting in the iTunes catalog and joins an elite group of films negotiated through aggregate firm TuneCore, as it celebrates twenty years since its’ winning entry at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
Chameleon Street is a psychological comedy that uses the real-life story of Douglas Street, an infamous Michigan-born imposter, to explore the myth of the American Dream, the paradox of African-American male identity, and the movie medium’s uncanny ability to get under the skin of American Society. It is the quintessential story of...
- 2/11/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
- If you had to define the history of American Independent Film with a select few titles you’d want to mention Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 film. Sundance Institute announced today that Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (Sundance Film Festival Audience Award Winner) and Wendell B. Harris's Chameleon Street (1990 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize Winner) have been selected for the Festival's From the Collection screenings. sex, lies, and videotape / U.S.A. 1989 (Director/Screenwriter: Steven Soderbergh)—Steven Soderbergh's ground-breaking debut film about a man who films women discussing their sexuality, and his impact on the relationship of a troubled married couple. The Oscar-nominated film won the Audience Award at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is credited for its pivotal role in revolutionizing the independent film movement in the early 1990s. In 2006, sex, lies, and videotape was added to the United
- 12/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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