BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The problem with List - Black 100 Films from the Black Movie Hall of Fame DTSTAMP:20250810T233807Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:451-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n I have said multiple times\, I find labels are rarely wel l thought out in the USA\, The list of 100 best black films by a supposed black organization [has to be financed and populated by blacks to be a bla ck organization] includes films\, not even directed or written by blacks.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 6. “Claudine” (1974)  - directed by a nonblack man\, and I like Claudine\n\n 10. “Carmen Jones” (1954) - based on a n onblack theatrical play\n\n 21. “Richard Pryor: Live in Concert” (1979 ) How do you lump a live comedy show next to a fiction? \n\n 22.  “S haft” (1971) - story written by a white man\n\n 31.  “Glory” (1989) - written directed and financed by whites \n\n 32.  “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018) - a black version of a white character\n\n 6 3.  “Black Orpheus” (1959) based on a white mythology\, directed by a white man... and I like Orfeu Negro\n\n\n\n The Oldest is \n\n 50. “Wi thin Our Gates” (1920) \, personally happy 35.  “The Emperor Jones” (1933)  made it\, fewer black people know Paul Robeson today\, which is telling cause Paul Robeson more than Malcolm or Martin or many other Black men was a Black man of many talents registered by whites\n\n But within o ur gates is placed 50... the thing about white movie list is white movie l ist go reverse\, the oldest get preference on top\, the youngest go to the bottom. Within Our Gates is not better than the Heat of the Night... ok.  \n\n\n\n And for me\, to see Black Girl from Ousmane Sembene is ok\, but \, Emitai or Ceddo alone are better than most of the movies on this list. I will be blunt\, Black Girl is good but Emitai or Ceddo are top 5 based on story and quality. And then the damn princess and the damn frog made it ... and I don't see any films from India\, a number of Indians from India are Kalo's/Habshi/Blacks \, And a film from Kemet/Egypt I recall about a c leaning woman\, a Nuba and has what I call a mamluk friend\, whose husband goes to jail but he kills a man who hurt his wife while in jail... nahhh this list.  I am not your negro is beneath friday ok I am glad 57.  “ Sonkofa” (1993) and 29.  “Watermelon Man” (1970) and 90.  “Daugh ters of the Dust” (1991) made it \, cause some of the films many black p eople haven't seen or heard of. \n\n\n\n   \n\n 86.  “Bamboozled” (2000) is a criminal entry for me and the The Blood of Jesus 1941 from SPe ncer Williams not being on is a criminal absene for me. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n They show fun facts and say Sidney poitier is in six films\, well let u s list them\n\n 26.  “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961)\n\n 37.  “Lilies of the Field” (1963)\n\n 43.  “In the Heat of the Night” (1967)\n \n 69.  “To Sir\, With Love” (1967) for the record the black writer o f the book hated this movie\, anyway\n\n 85.  “Uptown Saturday Night” (1974) the first of the cosby poitier triology\n\n 95.  “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967)\n\n\n\n this is Rich's best six sidney poitier films\n\n A Warm December 1973\n\n Buck and the Preacher 1972\n\n For Lov e of Ivy1968\n\n The Long Ships 1964\n\n Paris Blues 1961\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n And then Denzel WAshington is in more than any other thespian. Ok\, but lets look at the top three with a Denzel Washington movie up there\n\n 1. “Malcolm X” (1992)\n\n 2. “Black Panther” (2018)\n\n 3. “Do The Right Thing” (1989)\n\n\n\n And as a writer\, who mostly writes origina l stories\,  inspired from a wide swatch of Black fiction\, including bef ore the 1900s\, I see these three films as indicative of the commercial pr oblem for a black writer like me. \n\n The first film is a biopic\, I des pise biographies ninety nine percent fo the time. Do I love Brother Malcol m\, son of a Garveyite\, best male black leader in the 1900s ... 100% do I think he's biopic from spike lee should be higher than fifty ? no.  But it makes sense\, black people in the usa in particular are a boring people s. We like soap operas/telenovelas/cheap drama... biopics are that\, cheap dramas. Malcolm's life can be read and important points known\, seeing th e dramatized version is really just that. \n\n Black panther\, written by a non black originally\, produced by a non black firm to gather modern bl ack movie going dollars which are bigger than ever before. ok... I still l ove Milestone better than DC or Marvel and... my favorite comic in Milesto ne comic is blood syndicate but ok.  Black people love black white charac ters either black characters that are phenotypical versions of non black c haracters or black characters that come from non black imaginations. I ten d to write neither. \n\n Finally... Do the right thing... nice cast\, god o scenes but what is it really? Urban Drama\, when you see the power serie s\, which is financially very profitable\, you see Do the right thing. The intro to Do The Right THing has a dance sequence by a mulatta woman. The end is a neutral ending with a reconciliation amidst or within an imbalanc ed or uneven city\, that being New York City. The idea is a neutral embrac e of the usa\, black pride to grow but integrated peace to live aside the non black determined. Very statian but I am not so sure how many black peo ple in the usa in the past or now\, truly believe that path\, but simply a bet it because of impotency.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n But I have experience with these things. For me\, what matters after looking at a list is how it was made. Who voted? Yeah ok\, somebody made a list\, that is nice\, but how was it constructed\, who voted?  I didn't vote\, the village didn't vote. Most times in the usa list of the best are always made by a group that do esn't reflect all or even evenly. And that is whether black or non black.  \n\n I went to the team page and see two people\, so these two people ma de this list\, that explains everything. \n\n https://blackmoviehalloffam e.org/our-team/\n\n\n\n And then I finally saw the following\n\n\n\n https ://blackmoviehalloffame.org/the-critic-lists/\n\n\n\n Black Critics made t his list\, ok. Black Film Critics/judges like most film judges have a huge bias based on their employer or their own personal taste and all of these critics are based in the usa \, applying themselves to a list of a global ly existing thing like Black film so ok. I comprehend. I get the 100 and i t is fine. It isn't indicative of the black populace\, but should be title d\, the BLACK STATIAN FILM CRITICS 100 BEST BLACK MOVIES\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ n IN AMENDMENT\n\n\n\n I wish they would had not made a list. That would h ad been better in my view. Stop making lists\, stop trying to tell people what is best or what is better. Stop trying to make complex histories in t he arts or away from the arts structured in some order of supposed value. I see this in AALBC all the time\, people post their views and want to ran k \, which I sadly have done as well. But\, I try to not do it\, and if I owned or managed a supposed Black organization I will spend time making so mething that makes all black people feel welcomes\, equal. For example\, i nstead of a all time black 100 list\, why not a map. \n\n\n\n Why not a m ap of films involving Black people\, not black films\, films involving Bla ck people\, which includes Black Films (produced by/directed by/writtenby /starring mostly black people) plus non Black Films (produced by /directed by/written by/starring mostly non black people).\n\n\n\n In this way\, it can grow and all are equal. \n\n\n\n If anyone is willing to make map th ese films  for fun\, and join me\, just send me a message. Let's have fun . \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n I end with \, I hope the renovation of the theater in misouri goes well\, it will be done February 28th 2026 \, but I am not a fan of Afro Americana\, and I find the placement of black things away from the black geographic distribution of black people in the usa states is... saddening. \n\n\n\n I will be blunt\, the black populace in the usa shou ld have only three locals for all things: New York City/Los Angeles/New Or leans... New York city for the north east which includes the northern sout h (maryland/virginia) and the north center (detroit\,chicago\, cleveland)\ n\n\n\n Los Angeles for the west coast blacks as the black populace in the usa has a huge gap in its geographic distribution.\n\n\n\n New Orleans fo r the confederate south and neighbors(missouri/tennessee/texas /florida/ca rolinas)\n\n\n\n Kansas City come on\, that isn't a black center\, look at this map. Black people can live anywhere in the usa today\, it doesn't me an the black populace is centered everywhere\, come on. It can't be for mo st black people when it isn't at a central point.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Missour i doesn't even have a majority black county\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n I wonder how many Black children will be able to make the trip to the Black Movie Hall of Fame outside Kansas City?\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n REFERRAL\n\n https://aalbc .com/tc/topic/11758-the-100-best-black-movies-ever/\n\n\n\n COMMENTARY\n\n \n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11758-the-100-best-black-movies-ever/#find Comment-75435\n\n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250810 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR