Tag: dolemite is my name

Staff Selects: The Best of 2019

Titles are hyperlinked to the contributor’s writing on the films as applicable. Henry Baime: 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire It’s hard to think of anything else as the film of 2019 when this one has defined so much of what I’ve done this year. I spent the last seven months chasing the film…

Dolemite is My Name

Blaxploitation is a subgenre that took prominence in the 1970s. There was a wave of black filmmakers and actors scraping together all of their resources to make films that they wanted to make, and if they got lucky, people would get to see it. Blaxploitation didn’t get very far from its original years at the…