Based on a stage play of the same name. An aspiring writer struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother struggles with the opposing voices that exist inside of modern woman’s head. | Country: Canada | Language: English
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Patricia Rozema Retrospective: I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) 4K Restoration
Posted on July 6, 2024
Rozema’s mesmerizing debut feature. Aspiring photographer Polly lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle, who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle’s paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary, she realizes Gabrielle isn’t exactly who she appears to be. | Country: Canada | Language: English
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Micheaux’s final surviving film. Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight. | Country: United States | Language: English
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A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder. | Country: United States | Language: English
Read MoreThe Complete Oscar Micheaux: Body and Soul (1925) with short film The Darktown Revue (1931)
Posted on July 6, 2024
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin. | Country: United States | Language: English
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Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl’s fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. | Country: United States | Language: English
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A Story of the Ku Klux Klan. Directed by the first African American full feature-length director, Oscar Micheaux. | Country: United States | Language: English
Read MoreThe Complete Oscar Micheaux: Ten Minutes to Live (1932) with Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
Posted on July 6, 2024
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she’ll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that. A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother—a lawyer—don’t like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage. | Country: United States | Language: English
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Micheaux’s earliest surviving feature, and the earliest surviving feature of any African American director. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children. | Country: United States | Language: English
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An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local crime boss. | Country: United States | Language: English
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