
I was recently watching King Vidor's classic 1929 film, Hallelujah! . I had only seen a short clip of it in an introductory film class as a college freshman, but the power of that one scene stayed with me for almost five years; I have no idea why I didn't rent it sooner. It's one of the two predominantly black cast films released that year (the other being Paul Sloan's Hearts in Dixie ) and a first for mainstream cinema. Yes, this is a problematic film, some would say a racist film (of the best intentions), but like [...]