Let’s hear your recommendations!

Moonlight or belly I guess? Don't really quantify em like that, id have to see a list or something

Edit: prolly do the right thing actually

Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress is one I didn't see until last year. Criterion remaster dropped. Crazy hard neo-noir. Denzel is the man, but Don Cheadle kind of steals the show. I watched LA Confidential after and that movie looks like slop by comparison.

Less obvious answer than Training Day or 12 Years a Slave which are perfect movies. Feels like you gotta go to Spike Lee or Fuqua or McQueen or the Hughes brothers. Lots more options of late. Black directors are getting more shots these days. Peele obviously a big success story.

I thought Zola was incredible. Janicza Bravo, AV Rockwell, Mariama Diallo. All of their features that I saw had some challenging ideas. Looking forward to whatever they do next.

To Sleep with Anger
Within Our Gates
Devil in the Blue Dress
Touki Bouki
Hyenas
Mandabi

NOPE

Get Out one of my favorite movies ever, so probably that

Oh damn, Training Day up there for me too And Friday

Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee
Set It Off by F. Gary Gray
Waiting to Exhale by Forest Whitaker

Emma Mae
Girl 6
Top of the Heap
Welcome II The Terrordome
To Sleep With Anger
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Hollywood Shuffle

Malcolm X

Antoine Fuqua

Do the right thing + a whole gang of Spike joints
Training day
Boyz n the hood
Baby boy
Paid in full

Soul food

Touki Bouki

jk Black Panther

I think only training day

And friday*

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Love Jones (1997)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Pressure (1976)
Losing Ground (1982)

Antoine Fuqua isnt a good film maker he just has one major major top 10 classic

And as great as training day is, can’t forget that it’s written by a white dude who’s also a hack. 2 hacks came together and made a classic, who would’ve thought

American fiction
Black panther
Get out

Menace to society
Juice
Top Five

Mo’ Better Blues
Chameleon Street
If Beale Street Could Talk

It sucks to say but aside from spike lee obviously and maybe John Singleton, alotta black filmmakers from back then really only had one great great film under their belt. Idk if it’s due to lack of funding, politics or what…..

S*** is shaping out better these days where guys like Jenkins, Peele, Coogler and McQueen have multiple hits

Losing Ground is great

Love & Basketball one of my favorite comfort movies

And even with the historical inaccuracies I liked Woman King which is by the same director