Zendaya, Samuel L. Jackson, and more reexamine the legacy of so-called “blaxploitation” films in Elvis Mitchell’s instantly essential new documentary, ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’
“To my mind, that made him the Muhammad Ali of the film world, forced in his prime away from the arena in which he belonged,” Mitchell narrates. Belafonte returned to the screen in 1970, later finding success with. “I was a runaway success in the world at large,” Belafonte says in the doc. “I had a globe so passionately approving of my presence in their midst that nobody could dismiss the fact that that thing on the horizon called Belafonte could not be fucked with.
The film, dense with glorious archival clips, is deeply personal for Mitchell. He opens it by talking about his own grandmother, who watchedas a teenager and developed an intrinsic understanding of how influential movies could be on her mind. “She recognized the power of it,” Mitchell tellsThe Andy Griffith Show.
“Our dreams are affected by these things that don’t include us,” Mitchell continues. “What does that do to your psyche? That is probably one of the things that pushed me into doing what I do now.”Pictures at a Revolutioninfluential film-history tomes that focus on the 1960s and ’70s but don’t dig into the blaxploitation genre. “I thought, Well, there really hasn’t been this kind of cultural exegesis of Black film contributions to the culture,” Mitchell says of his initial book concept.
The book was repeatedly rejected by publishers, but Mitchell later resurrected the concept as a documentary. He shared the idea with Soderbergh, who immediately jumped on board to produce the project. “I’m used to people going, ‘That’s a great idea—my cab is here. I’ll catch you later!’” Mitchell says with a laugh. “But he jumped in with both feet, and it’s really because of his unwavering commitment and support that I’m here.
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