tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post111067838978393153..comments2024-02-08T05:04:18.484-08:00Comments on J'S THEATER: Diary of a Mad Black Woman: An Afro-Christian Bourgeois FantasyJohn Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1110771604257504122005-03-13T19:40:00.000-08:002005-03-13T19:40:00.000-08:00You make an excellent point, Rogue, but I do remem...You make an excellent point, Rogue, but I do remember Danny Glover and others talking it up, yet it and its director, Charles Burnett, who has consistently made outstanding films, got so little studio backing or support. But Burnett is fairly soft-spoken and not a media hound, so I mean, are we to blame him in part? I don't want to, but must we all be topflight salespeople as well. Outside of its director, the film, which fell outside the media's usual frameworks for black films, too little critical discussion. How do we change that? It's a real problem. <BR/><BR/>I think I proposed it as a counterweight to this film, which has provoked vehement support, from what I can tell, because it's a "black" film and its director is Black, and less from any real sense of being a work of any quality--either as art or entertainment. Or both. How to get around Hollywood--that remains a question. In my fantasy world, all children would get to see Burnett's "The Killer of Sheep," among other films, by 9th grade, as a way of countering the influence of Hollywood's/the media conglomerates' warping of the notion of what good films are and can be--and also as a counter to the steady industrialization of our consciousnessess, our imaginations, our imaginaries.John Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1110740541352350012005-03-13T11:02:00.000-08:002005-03-13T11:02:00.000-08:00I appreciate what you're saying here, John, and I'...I appreciate what you're saying here, John, and I'm glad you can be at least ambivalent about <I>Diary</I>, because I haven't felt that I could even go see it. But I don't know where you're going with <I>To Sleep with Anger</I>. Certainly, it does not strive to be 'accessible', in the way that <I>Diary</I> does, but can we say that the people don't love it when it seems that they haven't even been given the chance? I mean, I never saw Danny Glover promoting it on Oprah (or Arsenio, or whatever). So the question is how to get the kind of complex, beautiful films we love past the entertainment industry's way of doing things . . .<BR/><BR/>--moAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com