“She learned about movies by seeing ones she liked three or four times, studying them frame by frame.” Douglas Martin New York Times article on Frederica Sagor Mass “I would work so hard on some of the scripts and the minute I’d turn it in, someone else would take credit for it…Unless you wanted to [...]
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Archive for February, 2012“We’re a great country. We’ve got great stories. And for the most part, the great stories of people of color have not been told.” Spike Lee (at the NYC Premier of Red Tails) “Americans trust black people when we sing, dance or tell jokes. It’s when we stop laughing that people get itchy.” Author Charles [...] “Pioneer, visionary, ‘father of film technique,’ primitive poet, social agitator, king of screen sentiment and melodrama—all are apt descriptions of David Wark Griffith, the first of the great film directors.” Frank Beaver On Film, A History of the Motion Picture “It is unfortunate that the reputation of pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith will forever be stained [...] |
