Film Review: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

I am Not Your Negro uses James Baldwin’s notes to hold a conversation between Medgar Evans, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, a conversation between the future and the past, a conversation between those who are citizens and those who are wards of this state. Through James Baldwin, this film holds space for black folks and demands that white folks recognize their responsibility in perpetuating racism. The film artfully splices images of the present, the militant response to protests in Ferguson, with images of the past, state sanctioned white attacks on black protesters.

Make sure to clear your schedule after watching this film to reflect on and confront your emotional response!

MLK TRIBUTE WEEKEND

We are commemorating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King a little late with two great films!

Loving (Friday 1/27) 

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

 

Dear White People (Saturday 1/28)

How do Black students survive an elite Ivy League institution that wasn’t made for them? This satirical comedy follows four black students in the midst of a BSU election who do just that.

 

Both films will be screened in Thomas 224. Hope to see you there!

Miciah Foster

BMC’19

Film Series Committee

Marvel vs DC Movie Weekend

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This Weekend’s Lineup

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We have two great films this weekend! 

Wall-E (Friday 11/4) with the Zero Waste Club

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Nerve (Saturday 11/5) 

A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of “watchers.”

Hope to see you there! 

Best, 

Miciah Foster 

BMC ’19 

Super Spooky Weekend

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Bryn Mawr Film series presents two seriously spooky films (one more so than the other) for Halloween!

Queer Movie Weekend

BMC Film Series is back and this time, with friends.  be co-hosting with Spectra, Rainbow Alliance, and Zami this weekend to bring you two awesome LGBT centered films! 

But I’m A Cheerleader (Friday, 10/21)

New Location: Dalton 2

A naive cheerleader is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.

But I’m a Cheerleader is a 1999 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as…

The Wedding Banquet (Saturday, 10,22) 

Old Location: Thomas 224 

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.