Once Upon a Time in Harlem
A film by William Greaves
w/ Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, Ernest Crichlow
Rated PG13
1hr 40min
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
These images are precious beyond estimation because -- as Schuyler himself might say -- they rectify the legacy of black American art and language that has been hijacked by recent political chicanery.
Armond White
National Review
w/ Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, Ernest Crichlow
Rated PG13
1hr 40min
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
These images are precious beyond estimation because -- as Schuyler himself might say -- they rectify the legacy of black American art and language that has been hijacked by recent political chicanery.
Armond White
National Review
