Just as the merits of sex scenes are being debated and intimacy coordinators are becoming production necessities, Bridgett M. Davis’ boundary-breaking “Naked Acts” is landing a timely re-release.
“Naked Acts” first debuted in 1996 but was never widely available to audiences in theaters. Now, courtesy of Kino Lorber, Milestone Films, and legendary filmmaker Julie Dash, a 4K restoration of “Naked Acts” will play in cinemas nationwide.
The feature is written and directed by Bridgett M. Davis, and centers on twenty-something aspiring actress Cece (Jake-Ann Jones) who lands her first leading role in a low-budget independent film. The only catch? The part requires a nude scene. Cece is forced to confront her shelved trauma of surviving sexual assault, her life-long body image issues, and even her relationship with her mother, who was a famous Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal. Late Emmy winner Ron Cephas Jones stars as Cece’s supportive...
“Naked Acts” first debuted in 1996 but was never widely available to audiences in theaters. Now, courtesy of Kino Lorber, Milestone Films, and legendary filmmaker Julie Dash, a 4K restoration of “Naked Acts” will play in cinemas nationwide.
The feature is written and directed by Bridgett M. Davis, and centers on twenty-something aspiring actress Cece (Jake-Ann Jones) who lands her first leading role in a low-budget independent film. The only catch? The part requires a nude scene. Cece is forced to confront her shelved trauma of surviving sexual assault, her life-long body image issues, and even her relationship with her mother, who was a famous Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal. Late Emmy winner Ron Cephas Jones stars as Cece’s supportive...
- 6/5/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
It's arrived -- thanks in part to a successful Kickstarter campaign, this nearly comprehensive compendium of American 'Race Films' is here in a deluxe Blu-ray presentation. Pioneers of African-American Cinema Blu-ray Kino Classics 1915-1946 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 952 min. / Street Date July 26, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 99.95 Directed by Richard Norman, Richard Maurice, Spencer Williams and Oscar Micheaux
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Black Cinema History? We didn't hear a peep about any such thing back in film school. Sometime in the 1980s PBS would broadcast a barely watchable (see sample just below) copy of a creaky silent 'race movie' about a 'backsliding' black man in trouble with the law, the Lord and his wife in that order. The cultural segregation has been almost complete. It wasn't until even later that I read articles about a long-extinct nationwide circuit of movie theaters catering to black audiences, wherever the populations were big enough to support the trade.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Black Cinema History? We didn't hear a peep about any such thing back in film school. Sometime in the 1980s PBS would broadcast a barely watchable (see sample just below) copy of a creaky silent 'race movie' about a 'backsliding' black man in trouble with the law, the Lord and his wife in that order. The cultural segregation has been almost complete. It wasn't until even later that I read articles about a long-extinct nationwide circuit of movie theaters catering to black audiences, wherever the populations were big enough to support the trade.
- 8/6/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The fifth and sixth screenings of the ongoing L.A. Rebellion touring film series currently in Chicago, which have been, so far, a hugely success, takes place this Thursday May 16 and Saturday May 18th with two short films program, which will include several long unseen major works. On Thursday, the program of four short films will deal with black youth “as they struggle against the many restrictions placed on their life possibilities, from being railroaded into the military and dead-end jobs, to facing racism at school, to navigating the conflicting expectations of friends and family”. The four films that will be screened are Rich (S. Torriano Berry, 1982); Shipley Street ...
- 5/13/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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