IFC channel subscribers, at 8:35pm Est tomorrow, Tuesday night, you might want to tune in for this: the 1976 blaxploitation classic (although maybe forgotten), Brotherhood Of Death, about 3 black Vietnam veterans who become vigilantes against the Kkk-inspired racism prevalent in their Southern hometown. Shit gets raw, as the trio helps their community rise up and violently face down their white oppressors!
They just don’t make them like they used to, do they? I’d love to see a film like this produced and distributed widely today. If Quentin Tarantino can get away with the WWII revisionist Inglorious Basterds, I don’t see why Spike Lee (for example) couldn’t do something similar, with obvious appropriate changes of course – a lynching retribution pic perhaps.
Coincidentally, Tarantino is said to be a big fan of the film, and his support of it was reportedly one of the reasons it was released...
They just don’t make them like they used to, do they? I’d love to see a film like this produced and distributed widely today. If Quentin Tarantino can get away with the WWII revisionist Inglorious Basterds, I don’t see why Spike Lee (for example) couldn’t do something similar, with obvious appropriate changes of course – a lynching retribution pic perhaps.
Coincidentally, Tarantino is said to be a big fan of the film, and his support of it was reportedly one of the reasons it was released...
- 5/25/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
By Matt Singer
By this point, we're all familiar with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and "Superfly" and "Shaft," we know all about Pam Greer and Fred Williamson and Jim Brown. But the 1970s produced dozens and dozens of blaxploitation films beyond the handful that have come to stand-in for the entire genre. Many were formulaic, some were downright terrible, but a lot were a cut above. These four uniquely superb blaxploitation films, largely forgotten to history, deserve rediscovery by new audiences and fresh eyes.
"Across 110th Street" (1972)
Directed by Barry Shear
Some 30 years before the groundbreaking crime series "The Wire," an unassuming blaxploitation picture covered similar territory with much the same complexity, albeit on a much smaller scale and with significantly fewer critical accolades. Both were shot in real locations with local actors; both draw parallels between the structure and politics of the underworld and the police force. Often in "Across 110th Street,...
By this point, we're all familiar with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and "Superfly" and "Shaft," we know all about Pam Greer and Fred Williamson and Jim Brown. But the 1970s produced dozens and dozens of blaxploitation films beyond the handful that have come to stand-in for the entire genre. Many were formulaic, some were downright terrible, but a lot were a cut above. These four uniquely superb blaxploitation films, largely forgotten to history, deserve rediscovery by new audiences and fresh eyes.
"Across 110th Street" (1972)
Directed by Barry Shear
Some 30 years before the groundbreaking crime series "The Wire," an unassuming blaxploitation picture covered similar territory with much the same complexity, albeit on a much smaller scale and with significantly fewer critical accolades. Both were shot in real locations with local actors; both draw parallels between the structure and politics of the underworld and the police force. Often in "Across 110th Street,...
- 2/12/2009
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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