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In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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In this episode, we do a rewatchable review of the 2000 psychological drama Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Jared Leto and Marlon Wayans. We discuss whether the film still holds up in its brutal honesty about drug addiction, and we debate whether this is Marlon Wayans’s best film performance.
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