18 août 2008
New Orléans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival - Cinéma Première Presents - Charles Burnett, Welcome to the Big Easy !
Thursday August 7
At The Prytania
5339 Prytania, New Orleans, LA 70115
http://www.theprytania.com/
Opening
Director Dr. Jean Montès
Featuring Johnaye Kendrick, Vocals. Amy Thiaville, Violin 1. Kate Withrow, Violin 2. Richard Woehrle, Viola. Sarah Montès, Cello. Allen Nisbet, Bass. Jean Montès, Congas
Molto is a chamber orchestra of eclectic professional and semi-professional musicians committed to bringing audiences into the experience of making quality and one-of-a-kind live performances. Embracing a fusion of compositions from baroque to contemporary, from jazz to world music, Molto also fosters the development of new sounds of the 21st century. More committed, more daring, more passionate… Molto, a fresh and unique experience of uncompromising artistry!
An accomplished conductor, performer, and educator, Dr. Jean Montès is passionate about challenging and stimulating audiences and musicians alike. He seves as Director of Orchestral Studies and Coordinator of Strings at Loyola University in New Orleans, Artistic Director of the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra (GNOYO), and frequently travels across the US, to his native Haiti, and beyond in his work with young musicians.
A New Orleans Premiere with the Director
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
Director Charles Burnett
Cast Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Joel Haikali, Chrisjan Appollus, Obed Emvula
Charles Burnett's Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation tells the rise to power of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), a prominent leader in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, and that country's first president. Opening when Nujoma was 16 years old and the country is under constant oppression from South Africa, the young man learns that he is the direct descendant of royalty. He sets off as a young man to live with an aunt, and befriends a religious man (Danny Glover) who has maintained a low profile after legal troubles stemming from a suspicious car accident. Eventually Nujoma, in the face of severe racism, forms the SWAPO political movement that, with the assistance of some foreign governments, eventually earns Namibia its independence. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Director Charles Burnett
From All Movie Guide: Along with Spike Lee, Charles Burnett was among the most crucial African-American cinematic voices to emerge during the final decades of the 20th century; unlike Lee, however, Burnett earned little mainstream recognition for his work and has remained largely a non-entity even within the bounds of the black filmgoing community. Motivated to action by years of one-dimensional black stereotypes and story lines in Hollywood features, Burnett has endeavored to bring to the screen a deeply personal, realistic portrayal of contemporary African-American existence, drawing his inspiration from the work of the Italian neorealist movement. Unfortunately, consistent victimization at the hands of studios and distributors has repeatedly conspired to silence his unique voice, and while younger and less accomplished black filmmakers rose to commercial success in his wake, Burnett himself has remained at best a highly regarded cult figure throughout his career.
Friday August 8
At Ashé
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70113
http://www.ashecac.org/
Close Up
Charles Burnett and Michael T. Martin in Dialogue
Our communities, our world are at risk. What does it mean
to be a filmmaker in these times?
Michael T. Martin is Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University Bloomington, where he edits the journal, Black Camera. He teaches courses on African American, "Third World," and postcolonial cinemas, and on black diasporic formations. He is most recently the editor of Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality (1995), of New Latin American Cinema: 2 vols (1997), and co-editor of Redress for Historical Injustices in the Unted States (2007).
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/
Quiet as Kept: New Short on Hurricane Katrina
Director Charles Burnett
Running Time: 6 Minutes - Country: USA
Filmmaker Charles Burnett takes the helm for this sobering documentary short concerning a former New Orleans family who has been relocated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and enters into a seriocomic discussion concerning their possible evening plans. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Director Charles Burnett
African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. She already has enough on her hands contending with her grown live-in son Richard Brooks and his real-estate agent wife Sheryl Lee Ralph. Glover ingratiates himself by reminding family of their Southern roots; less positively, he drinks a great deal, brings suspicious-looking cronies into the household. When Butler suffers a stroke, Glover assumes charge of the house--whereupon his charm evaporates and disaster follows. But Glover isn't really the villain of To Sleep With Anger: everyone in the film is depicted in all-too-human shades of gray. This effort by African American writer/ director Charles Burnett was the first of his films to attract widespread critical notice, almost 13 years after he created the seminal Killer of Sheep. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Running Time: 105 Minutes - Status: Released - Country: United States
Genre: Drama
5339 Prytania, New Orleans, LA 70115
http://www.theprytania.com/
Opening
Director Dr. Jean Montès
Featuring Johnaye Kendrick, Vocals. Amy Thiaville, Violin 1. Kate Withrow, Violin 2. Richard Woehrle, Viola. Sarah Montès, Cello. Allen Nisbet, Bass. Jean Montès, Congas
Molto is a chamber orchestra of eclectic professional and semi-professional musicians committed to bringing audiences into the experience of making quality and one-of-a-kind live performances. Embracing a fusion of compositions from baroque to contemporary, from jazz to world music, Molto also fosters the development of new sounds of the 21st century. More committed, more daring, more passionate… Molto, a fresh and unique experience of uncompromising artistry!
An accomplished conductor, performer, and educator, Dr. Jean Montès is passionate about challenging and stimulating audiences and musicians alike. He seves as Director of Orchestral Studies and Coordinator of Strings at Loyola University in New Orleans, Artistic Director of the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra (GNOYO), and frequently travels across the US, to his native Haiti, and beyond in his work with young musicians.
A New Orleans Premiere with the Director
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
Director Charles Burnett
Cast Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Joel Haikali, Chrisjan Appollus, Obed Emvula
Charles Burnett's Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation tells the rise to power of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), a prominent leader in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, and that country's first president. Opening when Nujoma was 16 years old and the country is under constant oppression from South Africa, the young man learns that he is the direct descendant of royalty. He sets off as a young man to live with an aunt, and befriends a religious man (Danny Glover) who has maintained a low profile after legal troubles stemming from a suspicious car accident. Eventually Nujoma, in the face of severe racism, forms the SWAPO political movement that, with the assistance of some foreign governments, eventually earns Namibia its independence. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Director Charles Burnett
From All Movie Guide: Along with Spike Lee, Charles Burnett was among the most crucial African-American cinematic voices to emerge during the final decades of the 20th century; unlike Lee, however, Burnett earned little mainstream recognition for his work and has remained largely a non-entity even within the bounds of the black filmgoing community. Motivated to action by years of one-dimensional black stereotypes and story lines in Hollywood features, Burnett has endeavored to bring to the screen a deeply personal, realistic portrayal of contemporary African-American existence, drawing his inspiration from the work of the Italian neorealist movement. Unfortunately, consistent victimization at the hands of studios and distributors has repeatedly conspired to silence his unique voice, and while younger and less accomplished black filmmakers rose to commercial success in his wake, Burnett himself has remained at best a highly regarded cult figure throughout his career.
Friday August 8
At Ashé
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70113
http://www.ashecac.org/
Close Up
Charles Burnett and Michael T. Martin in Dialogue
Our communities, our world are at risk. What does it mean
to be a filmmaker in these times?
Michael T. Martin is Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University Bloomington, where he edits the journal, Black Camera. He teaches courses on African American, "Third World," and postcolonial cinemas, and on black diasporic formations. He is most recently the editor of Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality (1995), of New Latin American Cinema: 2 vols (1997), and co-editor of Redress for Historical Injustices in the Unted States (2007).
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/
Quiet as Kept: New Short on Hurricane Katrina
Director Charles Burnett
Running Time: 6 Minutes - Country: USA
Filmmaker Charles Burnett takes the helm for this sobering documentary short concerning a former New Orleans family who has been relocated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and enters into a seriocomic discussion concerning their possible evening plans. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Director Charles Burnett
African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. She already has enough on her hands contending with her grown live-in son Richard Brooks and his real-estate agent wife Sheryl Lee Ralph. Glover ingratiates himself by reminding family of their Southern roots; less positively, he drinks a great deal, brings suspicious-looking cronies into the household. When Butler suffers a stroke, Glover assumes charge of the house--whereupon his charm evaporates and disaster follows. But Glover isn't really the villain of To Sleep With Anger: everyone in the film is depicted in all-too-human shades of gray. This effort by African American writer/ director Charles Burnett was the first of his films to attract widespread critical notice, almost 13 years after he created the seminal Killer of Sheep. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Running Time: 105 Minutes - Status: Released - Country: United States
Genre: Drama
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