#george c wolfe

[glimeres]

2000 Tony Awards - Toni Collette, Mandy Patinkin, Eartha Kitt and Company perform a medley (Queenie Was a Blonde / Wild Party / Welcome to My Party / When It Ends / Wild) from the musical The Wild Party

#ok first nathan a qt #but look at toni and eartha vrow..... #toni collette #mandy patinkin #eartha kitt #and lots of great performers look up the cast it's fire #michael john lachiusa #george c wolfe #the wild party #lachiusa the wild party #musical #broadway #video #posted

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #the wild party #the wild party lachiusa #michael john lachiusa #george c wolfe #language: english

[yourdailyqueer]

George C. Wolfe

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 23 September 1954

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Playwright, director, producer, writer, screenwriter, actor

#George C. Wolfe #George C Wolfe #lgbt #lgbtq #mlm #male #gay #1954 #black #poc #african american #playwright #director #producer #writer #screenwriter #actor

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

Director: George C. Wolfe

Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler

#viola davis #chadwick boseman #george c wolfe #ma rainey's black bottom #black films #black filmmakers #black directors #black cinema

[chinchillasorchildren]

Films of 2023: Rustin (dir. George C. Wolfe)

Grade: C-

#films of 2023 #Rustin #George C Wolfe #colman domingo #HBO movie of the week teas #that’s the George wolfe touch (derogatory)

[mikazuki-juuichi]

Film Diary.

- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. (2022. Dir. George C. Wolfe)

During a sweltering summer day in 1927, singer Ma Rainey, dubbed The Mother of Blues, is en route to a recording session. As her band waits for her and rehearses, the musicians share anecdotes about daily frustrations —sometimes, about deeply rooted horrors. In particular, ambitious Levee clashes with his older, religious, somewhat uptight bandmates. Rainey meanwhile wages a careful battle between her ego and the constant menace of losing her carefully calculated privileges. All passions and frustrations will come out with music. Thus the recording session becomes a day of soul-searching —precisely what the true blues is all about!

Terrific film adaptation of the classic August Wilson stage-play, itself loosely based on real-life anecdotes. From the careful recreation of the era’s fashions to the powerhouse performances and the thorough dissection of racial conflicts then and now. The commentary on the violence that is sometimes performed between the oppressed as the only valve left to them itself remains both shocking and poignant. And of course, there's the highly energetic musical performances.

In sort, not to be missed.

*

#film diary #ma raineys black bottom #drama #blues #george c wolfe

[owlpuddle]

Both Jelly's Last Jam and Bring in da Noise have songs dedicated to explaining their craft. JLJ has The Whole World's Waitin to Sing Your Song and That's How You Jazz, both performances of how jazz rhythms get improvised over each other. And BIDN has a monologue/performance called Green, Chaney, Buster, Slide about the history of tap as Black performance art. And I like them as compelling pieces on their own but I also like them as artist statements explaining their work, it is cool and useful to bring the audience in on their technique specifically.

#george c wolfe #bring in da noise bring in da funk #jelly's last jam

[kevrocksicehouse]

Rustin.

D: George C. Wolfe.

As Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln proved, one of the best ways to structure a biopic is to center it around a short but important period of time in its subjects life, but in Rustin, the story of a vital, though relatively obscure figure in the Civil Rights movement that approach becomes problematic. Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo) was a central organizer in the movement who was a top adviser to Martin Luther King Jr (he introduced King to Ghandian non-violence tactics) but whose five-year membership in the Young Communist League (he left when the party abandoned non-violence) and open, though discreet, homosexuality made him vulnerable to attacks not only from racist politicians but also from moderate black leaders like Roger Wilkins (Chris Rock) and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Jeffrey Wright) who saw him as an increasing liability. The film finds him rudderless, estranged from King (Domingo’s face when King accepts what Rustin thought was a pro forma resignation is as good as acting gets) when he is asked by A. Philip Randolph to help organize a march for civil and economic rights that became the landmark March on Washington and the high point of Rustin’s life.

Wolfe, working from a script by Dustin Lance Black (who as he demonstrated in Milk, knows how to portray the minutiae of politics as both explicable and exciting) more than makes history come alive – aided by Tobias A. Schliesser’s vibrant cinematography, he gives it color – and Domingo gives a titanic performance as the Dynamo at the center of it all, but his story and that of the event take turns eclipsing each other (and Rustin’s affairs with a younger activist (Gus Halper) organizer and a married NAACP pastor (Johnny Ramey) are a melodramatic distraction from the main story). Rustin almost works as a depiction of history that rescues one of it’s heroes from obscurity. But finally, it can’t meld the man with the movement.

#rustin #george c wolfe #colman domingo #review #kevrock #civil rights movement

[dclblog]

Rustin (O-Ton)...

...erzählt die Geschichte eines der größten Helden der Civil Rights-Bewegung in den USA, Bayard Rustin, der gegen alle Widerstände, denen er als schwuler Schwarzer in einem zutiefst rassistischen und homophoben Amerika ausgesetzt war, den March on Washington 1963 organisierte.

Regisseur George C. Wolfe inszeniert seinen Film mit großem Gespür für das Flair der Zeit und seine schillernde Hauptfigur, lässt aber am Ende genau jenen Biss vermissen, der seinen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" zu einem so erschütternd guten Zeitdokument werden ließ. Ich würde lügen, wenn ich sagte, dass mir die flotte, sehr humorvolle Umsetzung nicht ausgesprochen gut gefallen hätte, aber gerade die Momente, in denen "Rustin" innehält und die tiefen Narben, die der ewige Scheißdreck Rassismus und Homophobie in Menschen auslöst, zeigen will, machen überdeutlich bewusst, dass hier diesmal nicht Denzel Washington, sondern das Ex-Präsidentenpaar Obama auf dem Produzentenstuhl sitzt, weswegen wir immer da, wo es wirklich anklagend und tief gehend werden dürfte, mit einer grenzwertig melodramatischen, nie zu tief in die Materie eindringenden und gerade für die Nachkommen der Täter nie zu schmerzhaften Soße abgespeist werden, die gerade deshalb so fahl schmeckt, weil Wolfes Vorgängerfilm sich da so gar nichts schiss.

Dass mich das alles am Ende trotzdem komplett umhaute, liegt einzig und allein an der unglaublich fantastischen Performance von Colman Domingo. Allen Konventionen, die ihm ein urtypisches Biopic-Drehbuch auferlegt hat zum Trotz erschafft er mit seinem unglaublich nuancierten Spiel einen Menschen, dessen Träume, Ängste, Kämpfe, sein Optimismus und seine Verzweiflung gerade da noch durchscheinen, wo der eigentliche Film schon im versönlich-didaktischen Einerlei zu versinken droht.

Fazit: Informative, süffige Geschichtsstunde, deren wahrscheinlich produktionsbedingte Zahnlosigkeit durch einen grandiosen Hauptdarsteller, der durchgehend bannt und tief berührt, allergrößtenteils wettgemacht wird.

D.C.L.

#filmkritik #kritik #d.c.l. #spielfilm #chronicles of d.c.l. #drama #rustin #biopic #netflix #colman domingo #george c wolfe

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Rustin (15): Battling Against Racism AND Homophobia.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Rustin". #RustinMovie. Good biopic of the organiser of the 1963 Washington rally. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Rustin” (2023). Normally you find that the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Supporting Actor nominations go with “big” films. But occasionally, the Academy will recognise a performance that stands-out in an otherwise un-garlanded film. An example from last year would be Brian Tyree Henry for “Causeway“. Although it’s a very crowded field this year, I think it’s just…

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#RustinMovie #Aml Ameen #Audra McDonald #Barrack Obama #Bayard Rustin #bob-the-movie-man #bobthemovieman #Brian Tyree Henry #CCH Pounder #Chris Rock #Cinema #Colman Domingo #Dustin Lance Black #Film #film review #George C Wolfe #Glynn Turman #Julian Breece #Lenny Kravitz #Martin Luther King #Michelle Obama #Movie #Movie Review #One Man&039;s Movies #One Mann&039;s Movies #onemannsmovies #onemansmovies #Review #Rustin

[floorman3]

Rustin Review- A Transformative and Transcending Performance From Coman Domingo

Over the years we’ve seen a lot of films about the Civil Rights movement in our country. Films like Selma, Till, and Mississippi Burning have reminded us what a dangerous time the 60s were for Black Americans in the United States. It’s been a few years in the making but the latest movie about the Civil Rights Movement, specifically about one of its most flamboyant advocates and leaders, Bayard…

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#60s #Aml Ameen #CC H Pounder #Chris Rock #Civil Rights Movement #Colman Domingo #George C Wolfe #Martin Luther King Jr. #Netflix #Rustin

[glimeres]

2000, Rosie O'Donnell Show - Eartha Kitt (feat. Adam Grupper and Stuart Zagnit) performs Moving Uptown from LaChiusa's The Wild Party

#yeahhh i mean #i like both wild parties but only one of them had eartha kitt #eartha kitt #adam grupper #stuart zagnit #the wild party #lachiusa the wild party #michael john lachiusa #george c wolfe #musical #musicals #broadway #video #posted

[kenjo-arts]

Happy C!dream Easter Eggs monday!!!!!

#c!dream eggs monday #c!dream #c!george #c!wilbur #c!techno #c!punz #dream smp #dsmp #kenjos art #punz #technoblade #wilbur soot #georgenotfound #dreamwastaken #Bunny!dream #Wolf!wilbur

[cosmonautroger]

Nights In Rodanthe, George C. Wolfe, 2008

#Nights In Rodanthe #George C. Wolfe #2008

[lockwoodshitposting]

Uhhh...nuhh *sweating* early One Piece style Lucy and co- oh no.. the transformation ! *turns into a werewolf and howls in anguish*

#(wolf voice) #haha yeah sorry abour that one! do u still like me 👉👈 #im feelinf ok but do you have a shirt i can borrow? my big powerful wolf chest ripped thru my mcr tee #lockwood and co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #save lockwood and co #l&c #lockwood and company #george cubbins #george karim

[blackinperiodfilms]

RUSTIN | Official Teaser Trailer

The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known. He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten. Directed by DGA award and five-time Tony award winner George C. Wolfe and starring Emmy award winner Colman Domingo, Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.

Produced by Academy award winner Bruce Cohen, Higher Ground's Tonia Davis and George C. Wolfe.

#Rustin #Bayard Rustin #Colman Domingo #George C. Wolfe #Chris Rock #Glynn Turman #Jeffrey Wright #Audra McDonald #movie trailer #Dr. Martin Luther King Jr #Adam Clayton Powell Jr. #Ella Baker #Youtube