"A Place of Our Own," by Stanley Nelson, is a film which some of you may already be familiar with as it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004. For those of you who are not familiar with it, the description reads: “In this cinematic love song to place and identity, director Stanley Nelson explores the rarely seen world of the black middle class and the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, where African Americans have vacationed for generations. Using wonderfully evocative photography and landscape cinematography, Nelson lets us into a side of black identity rarely incorporated into the larger lore of Americana. Through intimate interviews in...
- 2/10/2016
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
"A Place of Our Own," by Stanley Nelson, is a film which some of you may already be familiar with as it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004. For those of you who are not familiar with it, the description reads: “In this cinematic love song to place and identity, director Stanley Nelson explores the rarely seen world of the black middle class and the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, where African Americans have vacationed for generations. Using wonderfully evocative photography and landscape cinematography, Nelson lets us into a side of black identity rarely incorporated into the larger lore of Americana. Through intimate interviews in...
- 7/10/2014
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson is, without question, one of the most important documentary filmmakers working today. His many films, such as "Freedom Riders," "A Place of our Own," and "Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind" have explored various aspects of black life, politics and culture, and how they still resonate today with us. And now the Award winning, MacArthur Fellowship filmmaker continues, as he did with "Freedom Riders," exploring and telling the story of the Civil Rights Movement, with "Freedom Summer," which chronicles the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, when over 700 student volunteers from around the country...
- 6/25/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson is, without question, one of the most important documentary filmmakers working today. His many films, such as "Freedom Riders," "A Place of our Own," and "Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind" have explored various aspects of black life, politics and culture, and how they still resonate today with us.And now the Award winning, MacArthur Fellowship filmmaker continues, as he did with "Freedom Riders," exploring and telling the story of the Civil Rights Movement, with "Freedom Summer," which chronicles the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, when over 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a...
- 6/20/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders, The Murder of Emmitt Till, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple, A Place of Our Own and many other films) has returned again to the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960’s with his latest film Freedom Summer. The film chronicles the events during the violent and bloody summer of 1964 in Mississippi known as the Freedom Summer, when hundreds of student volunteers in league with local and national activists and organizers worked to push for voting rights, to bring down the racist segregationists policies and foundations of white supremacy in the nation’s most segregated state. Working together, they ...
- 5/20/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
A Place of Our Own, by Stanley Nelson, is a film which some of you may already be familiar with as it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004. For those of you who, like me, were not familar with it, the blurb on the website reads: "In this cinematic love song to place and identity, director Stanley Nelson explores the rarely seen world of the black middle class and the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where African Americans have vacationed for generations. Using wonderfully evocative photography and landscape cinematography, Nelson lets us into a side of black identity rarely incorporated into the larger lore of Americana. Through intimate...
- 2/25/2013
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
"The agony and perverse ecstasy of unrequited love permeate Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea," writes Graham Fuller at the top of his interview with the director. Also in the new March/April 2012 issue of Film Comment: Jonathan Rosenbaum remembers Gilbert Adair (plus a few online exclusives: Adair on Mae West and his "Cliché Expert's Guide to the Cinema"), Anton Dolin examines "The Strange Case of Russian Maverick Aleksei German" (see, too, J Hoberman's 1990 piece for Fc on German) and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life tops the Reader's "20 Best Films of 2011" Poll — plus comments.
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film...
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film...
- 3/7/2012
- MUBI
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Laurens Grant's "Jesse Owens" as its Opening Night film on Thursday, April 12 in Durham, Nc. The film about the African American track and field star is produced and written by Full Frame Tribute honoree Stanley Nelson. Nelson will receive a tribute with a line-up of four of his titles: "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords," "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple," "A Place of Our Own" and "Sweet Honey in the Rock." Full press release reprinted below: Full Frame Announces Opening Night Film and 2012 Tribute Programming Honoring Stanley Nelson Durham, N.C., - March 6, 2012 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced the World Premiere of Laurens Grant’s “Jesse Owens” as its 2012 Opening Night Film on Thursday, April 12, at the Carolina Theatre. Produced and...
- 3/6/2012
- by Austin Dale
- Indiewire
It's an annual event as well as a browse that could suck up an entire weekend: Senses of Cinema's worldwide poll of… well, they're not all critics, so let's just call them friends of cinema. You'll want to scroll up and down the whole thing, but take a look, too, at the best of 2011 according to Notebook editor Daniel Kasman and contributors Celluloid Liberation Front, Christoph Huber, Olaf Möller and Dan Sallitt as well as a major presence here in the Forum and elsewhere, David Ehrenstein.
London. This is the year we'll be seeing the results of Sight & Sound's poll of more friends of cinema regarding the greatest films of all time. It happens only once every ten years and in the magazine's pages, Graham Fuller argues a mighty case for the return of Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934) to the top ten. The film's opening today for an extended run at BFI Southbank,...
London. This is the year we'll be seeing the results of Sight & Sound's poll of more friends of cinema regarding the greatest films of all time. It happens only once every ten years and in the magazine's pages, Graham Fuller argues a mighty case for the return of Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934) to the top ten. The film's opening today for an extended run at BFI Southbank,...
- 1/20/2012
- MUBI
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (April 12-15) has chosen to highlight the career of Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson ("Freedom Riders," "A Place of Our Own") for its annual Full Frame Tribute. In addition, the festival has announced that this year's Thematic Program -- curated by filmmaker Ross McElwee ("Bright Leaves") -- will focus on family. Titles for both the Thematic Program and the Full Frame Tribute will be announced in March. ...
- 1/18/2012
- Indiewire
Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson will be the featured speaker on Tuesday, April 26, during a program on his latest documentary, “Freedom Riders,” from 2 to 4 p.m. in the theater at St. Louis Community College at Meramec, 11333 Big Bend in Kirkwood.
Jim Kirchherr of Ketc-tv (Ch. 9), the St. Louis PBS affiliate, will moderate the event. Following short clips of the film, Nelson will answer questions from the audience. The documentary airs on PBS from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, May 16 as part of the “American Experience” history series.
Based on Raymond Arsenault’s book, “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Nelson’s documentary is the first feature-length film about a band of nearly 400 civil rights activities – black and white, young and old, male and female, Northern and Southern – who risked their lives by deliberately violating Jim Crow laws and traveling together on buses as they journeyed through the Deep South.
Jim Kirchherr of Ketc-tv (Ch. 9), the St. Louis PBS affiliate, will moderate the event. Following short clips of the film, Nelson will answer questions from the audience. The documentary airs on PBS from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, May 16 as part of the “American Experience” history series.
Based on Raymond Arsenault’s book, “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Nelson’s documentary is the first feature-length film about a band of nearly 400 civil rights activities – black and white, young and old, male and female, Northern and Southern – who risked their lives by deliberately violating Jim Crow laws and traveling together on buses as they journeyed through the Deep South.
- 4/21/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stanley Nelson, the legendary director of non-fiction television and film, returns to Sundance with his fourth film to be considered in the U.S. Documentary Competition (after "A Place of Our Own," "The Murder of Emmett Till," and "The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords"). "Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of ...
- 1/22/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Stanley Nelson, the legendary director of non-fiction television and film, returns to Sundance with his fourth film to be considered in the U.S. Documentary Competition (after “A Place of Our Own,” “The Murder of Emmett Till,” and “The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords”). “Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of …...
- 1/22/2010
- Indiewire
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