Everything she was saying about Spike was spot on but then we got to Waiting to Exhale… it’s S***?!

Trading Places should definitely be on here

missing the forest for the trees...
anyway,

• Tongues Untied
• Residue (2020)
• Buck and the Preacher

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My thinking behind it is that I want this list to operate as a bit of a timeline for the black experience through film. So that means that films like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, which is directed by Stanley Kramer, make the list due to its significance within the history of black people on film.

Overall, I want most films here to be written and directed by black people but some films are iconic, significant, or important regardless of that fact.

Why so?

I’d put Truck Turner, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling, Within Our Gates, and Touki Bouki

some of the order bothers me from a chronological standpoint (i.e. Boyz N the Hood being put after New Jack City) but this is an excellent list. i need to dive into a lot of these older classics

Baby Boy doesn’t either

i feel like A Low Down Dirty Shame should be on here also. i had never seen a Black noir film before that and i don’t think there’s been anything like it since. but i would love to be corrected on that

hell White Chicks doesn’t have a Blu ray either WTF

i need to rewatch Claudine

Sorry for bumping this but gotta say that Drylongso is so good.

Shame that Cauleen never tackled anything feature length again. She has it in her for sure

imma check it out, i've heard great things

add boxing day (2021) and rye lane

+1 on Rye Lane
Possibly my fav film of the past few years

ooohhh good picks! haven't seen boxing day but really enjoyed rye lane

some newer s*** like
Judas & the black messiah
The Book of Clarence
Sinners, right?

judas for sure.

sinners will definitely enter the canon. coogler is on a roll.

the book of clarence... hmmm this film was a headscratcher for me. I much more preferred, jeymes samuel's The Harder They Fall.

how did you feel about it?

I really liked both the harder they fall and the book of clarence, personally, but I can see how it may not really enter the cannon like that. It may have been a bit drawn out, but I enjoyed the hero's journey type of story that it was.

What is black film canon?

basically the most influential, historic, and culturally relevant films in history.

I respect that. I didn't hate the film and appreciated the ambition but yea.. just didn't fully hit for me

Tyler Perry needs to be in here if we being real..

Specifically Dairy Of A Mad Black Woman.

edit - I see you got Why Did I Get Married. Madea still needs a spot.

I’m considering Madea’s Family Reunion but that’s may be my bias talking. What do you think?

Dairy of a mad black woman yea I get that.