Ripper Man

Maybe we should teach Oscar Micheaux in film classes instead of DW Griffith.

meg

Richer for being non-linear and trying to do everything at once, through geographical and temporal hops and detours between men and women, black and white, North and South, the parlor and the street. Richer, too, for allowing the deep complications of racial violence to…

K. Austin Collins

January 12, 2020 is exactly 100 years to the day of this films original, belaboured release, so I had no choice to revisit it. But seeing this for the first time in actually decent quality it's hard not to wonder aloud if there was a racial element in the tendency for…

Neil Bahadur

This film is a text book case of a great film rising above the limitations of its presentation. In short, a film this old, watched on YouTube, is never going to match the visual majesty of your arthouse greats on the silver screen, simply because between being a formerly…

Sally Jane Black

a very impressive, non-linear silent film about the complex relationships of different races and classes in the jim crow era. very beautifully drawn characters wrestling with ambition, segregation and a history of brutal, racist violence in different ways. some, like the…

Josh Lewis

I will not rest until this is on every american film history syllabus.

eely 👻

Oscar Micheaux tried to encapsulate the ills facing African American life circa 1920 in under 80 minutes. Raw, startling, confusing. One of only three of Micheaux's 20+ silent movies survive - who knows what film history has lost?

Will Sloan

absolutely devastating to think how this director made 22 whole films that are still lost and at this point will probably never be found he was so ahead of his time it's literally painful to imagine all the films he created that nobody will ever see again 😭

Evasive

CRITERION CHALLENGE 2021: 21. From the "Pioneers of African-American Cinema" collection Progress: 5/52 "It is my duty and the duty of each member of our race to help destroy ignorance and superstition." Long presumed a lost film until the 1993 restoration of a…

Richard Chandler