Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
2015
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Synopsis
Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood) reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter, director, and actor whose 1940s melodramas centered on sinners and saints—Beale Street mamas and storefront preachers, crime bosses and upwardly striving lawyers and soldiers—who are tempted by jazz and sex and then set back on the glory road to salvation. - MoMA
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Festival History
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016 generic
- Viennale 2015 generic
