Sidney Poitier

  • Movie News

Is That Black Enough For You?!? Doc Knows Black Cinema Was Never ‘Underground’ — It Was Always Right Here

Film critic and historian Elvis Mitchell's new Netflix documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? rewrites a false narrative about Black cinema…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Sidney: Oprah Winfrey Says Seeing Sidney Poitier Win 1964 Oscar Gave Her Hope of ‘Something Bigger’ (Exclusive Video)

Oprah Winfrey remembers watching television and seeing Sidney Poitier win the Oscar for best actor in 1964 for his movie…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

In 1967, Sidney Poitier Launched Three Sub-Genres of Film

Reading the Bible, or Shakespeare, there's sometimes a tendency to say, "This isn't so great — I've heard this story…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich Remembered

Hollywood legends Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich have died; Mike Judge teases a return to Beavis and Butt-Head a decade…

2 years ago
  • Acting

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017: Maltin Modern Master Denzel Washington Reflects on His Career

Few names inspire as much respect as Denzel Washington's. Audiences know him from, well, countless stellar performances in virtually all…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Penetrating Images: I Am Not Your Negro Remixes James Baldwin with America’s Tradition of On-Screen Racism

When Raoul Peck was eight, his family fled Haiti for the Congo to escape the tyranny of then-dictator François Duvalier.…

7 years ago