Sentences with phrase «forgotten black actress»
The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.
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In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.