I join CTV NewsChannel anchor Renée Rodgers to talk about the origin story “Clayface,” the stop-motion animated “Wildwood,” the documentary “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” and the adult fairy tale “Wicker.”
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I sit in with CKTB morning show host Steph Vivier to have a look at movies in theatres including the origin story “Clayface,” the stop-motion animated “Wildwood,” the documenary “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” and the adult fairy tale “Wicker.”
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Fast reviews for busy people! Watch as I review three movies in less time than it takes to wind your watch. Have a look as I race against the clock to tell you about the origin story “Clayface,” the stop-motion animated “Wildwood” and the documentary “Once Upon a Time in Harlem.”
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I join the Bell Media Radio Network national night time show “Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift” to talk about more Jon Stewart, a new voice for Apu, a priceless brassiere and I review the docmenary “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” and offer some suggestions for cocktails to enjoy with the film.
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CAST: Aaron Douglas, Arna Bontemps, Richard Bruce Nugent, James Van Der Zee, and Countee Cullen’s widow, Ida Mae Cullen. Directed by David Greaves.
REVIEW: “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is a historical document that feels as alive and rich as it did the day it was shot.
Conceived by filmmaker William Greaves, it documents a remarkable August 1972 gathering of artists, poets, painters, musicians and scholars who gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in New York City to reflect on the cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement of the 1920s and 30s known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Shot verité-style, the documentary isn’t just a record of an extraordinary event, it’s also a tribute to the legacy of change ushered in by the people who assembled that afternoon.
The roving camera catches 96-year-old Leigh Whipper, the first Black member of Actors’ Equity, marvelously reciting, from memory, a speech he delivered as Haile Selassie in the 1943 film “Mission to Moscow.” Street corner orator Hubert Harrison’s impact is recalled by activist Richard B. Moore, and pilot Hubert Fauntleroy ‘The Black Eagle’ Julian is remembered for parachuted over Harlem.
In 98 minutes, politics and art are dissected and debated, poetry is performed and history is captured.
In dialogue and debate it celebrates the party guests and absent friends, but, more importantly, provides context for their lives and achievements.
One Upon a Time in Harlem’s” fifty-four-year-old 16mm footage of their reminiscences, disagreements and conversation is so intimate it feels as though you, as a viewer, are eavesdropping on history in real time. It’s an absolute must see that looks back but also feels timely in its passionate world view.
On the Saturday October 17 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet filmmaker David Greaves. His father William produced more than 200 documentaries and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations. In 1972 he assembled gathering of artists, writers, musicians, and organizers at Duke Ellington’s Harlem townhouse to film their to recollections on the cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement of the 1920s and 30s known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Shot verité-style, the footage isn’t just a record of an extraordinary event, it’s also a tribute to the legacy of change ushered in by the people who assembled that afternoon.
That footage sat, unreleased for fifty years until William’s son David, who was one of the camera operators on that August afternoon in 1972, restored some 60,000 feet of 16mm film and completed Once Upon a Time in Harlem.
Then, Zoë Roberts, one of the co-creators of the hit musical “Operation Mincemeat” stops by to talk about the show and how a dead body, a fake love letter, and — of all people — Ian Fleming turn the tide of WWII?
Then, we’ll meet Brad Schiff and Jacob Tremblay of the new film “Wildwood.” The dark fantasy based on Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’s book comes from the stop motion animation wizards at a company called LAIKA, whose other films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link are all classics.
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