The Contenders:
Cabaret
The Emigrants
The Godfather (winner)
Pete ‘n’ Tillie
Sounder
Showing posts with label Sounder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sounder. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2019
Monday, November 20, 2017
Friday, March 3, 2017
Friday, June 3, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Sharecropping
Film: Sounder
Format: Streaming video from Hoopla Digital on The Nook.
Sounder is very much a “black experience” movie, taking place in the South during the Great Depression and concerning the trials of a dirt-poor black sharecropping family. We start with father Nathan Lee Morgan (an Oscar-nominated Paul Winfield) out hunting with oldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks). The raccoon they are hunting gets away despite their best efforts and the efforts of their dog, Sounder. It’s soon evident that this failure of hunting means no meat for the family for another day. So it’s a surprise when there’s meat cooking the next morning, and mother Rebecca Morgan (an also Oscar-nominated Cicely Tyson) asks no questions.
Format: Streaming video from Hoopla Digital on The Nook.
I don’t do a lot of blogathons. It’s not because I don’t have a desire to participate in them; instead it’s that the way this blog functions, they don’t normally fit into the sort of posts I do here. I’m pretty solidly focused on movie reviews and more specifically on Oscar movies and the occasional horror film. I don’t do perspectives on actors’ careers or focus on film movements or genres. When Wendell Ottley announced the Acting Black Blogathon some time ago, I wasn’t sure if I’d jump in or not. However, this was a blogathon that could potentially fit into what I do. But what do I know about the black experience? In a lot of ways, I’m the least “diverse” guy I know. I’m a middle-aged, heterosexual white guy. My experience has been the default experience shown in movies for years, and so there’s a bit of concern on my part that I might not have a great deal to say.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)