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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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Writer/director Jordan Canning (Schitt's Creek, Fraggle Rock, Baroness von Sketch, We Were Wolves) joins me this week to talk about Robert Zemeckis and Diane Thomas's 1984 adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. Kathleen Turner stars as the romance novelist turned reluctant adventurer Joan Wilder. Along with the pits and pratfalls that Joan deals with while trying to save her sister in Cartagena, Colombia, we get into the pits and pratfalls of filmmaking itself.
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