TIFF Black Star Film Screening: Car Wash preceded by Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful @ TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON - Sat Dec 16th!

                                       Photo Credit: TIFF Bell Lightbox Website

Black Star

From Denzel Washington and Danny Glover, Queen Latifah and Will Smith to David Oyelowo, this expansive retrospective celebrates 100 years of Black excellence on screen.

Sat Dec 16

Film Screening:  Car Wash preceded by Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful

View Car Wash during the Car Wash preceded by Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful event.

Scripted by Joel Schumacher (of all people), this episodic, colourful cult comedy focuses on a day in the life of a multiracial group of friends working at an L.A. car wash. Among a terrific ensemble, which includes comedy legends George Carlin (as a wacky cab driver pursuing a prostitute who stiffed him for a fare) and Richard Pryor (as smooth-talking, money-mad evangelist "Daddy Rich," pastor of the Church of Divine Economic Spirituality), Antonio Fargas is a standout as the cross-dressing Lindy, who memorably declares to disapproving Black Muslim militant Abdullah (future director Bill Duke) "I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get!"

Location: TIFF Bell Lightbox,  350 King Street West, Toronto, ON

Time: 3:15p

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Black Star: 100 Years of Black Excellence on the Big Screen @ TIFF, Toronto, ON - Tues Nov 7th - Thurs Nov 9th!

                             Photo from TIFF Post in Black Star 


What has it meant to be a Black star over the years? What are the historical, social and political conditions that have informed notions of Black stardom? Beginning November 3rd, the BFI's celebrated Black Star comes to TIFF celebrating a range of influential figures from Hollywood icons like Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne and Denzel Washington to independent trailblaizers like Oscar Micheaux, Marlon Riggs and Barbara O. Jones. Explore the vibrancy and resilience of Black representation in cinema with a programme that spans decades, with over 40 films screened, including:

NOV 7
Jean of the Joneses preceded by The Railpath Hero and Short Hymn, Silent War

NOV 8
To Sleep With Anger

NOV 9
Carmen Jones preceded by Sleep is the Cousin of Death

Location:  TIFF 350 King Street W., Toronto, ON

Runs until Dec 22nd, 2018

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Black Star: 100 Years of Black Excellence on the Big Screen @ TIFF, Toronto, ON - Fri Nov 3rd - Fri Dec 22nd!

                             Photo from TIFF Post in Black Star 


What has it meant to be a Black star over the years? What are the historical, social and political conditions that have informed notions of Black stardom? Begining November 3rd, the BFI's celebrated Black Star comes to TIFF celebrating a range of influential figures from Hollywood icons like Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne and Denzel Washington to independent trailblaizers like Oscar Micheaux, Marlon Riggs and Barbara O. Jones. Explore the vibrancy and resilience of Black representation in cinema with a programme that spans decades, with over 40 films screened, including:

Nov 3, 6:30pm: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT starring Sidney Poitier with an intro by the BFI's Ash Clark.

Nov 3, 9:15pm: LOVE, SEX & EATING THE BONES (dir. Sudz Sutherland) with Toronto Hip Hop Classics

On Friday November 3 @ 9:15pm, Tiff Bell Light retrospective BLACK STAR celebrating 100 years of Black Excellence on the Big Screen opens with a boom bap tribute to Toronto, featuring Love, Sex and Eating the Bones (by director Sudz Sutherland) with a trio of T.O. Hip Hop Classics spotlighting music on video. Can’t wait to see THE TRILOGY: 3MCz featuring Motion, Tara Chase and Apani B. Fly (Blacklist), directed by award-winning director Alison Duke,  screened alongside Northern Touch (Rascalz, Kardinal Offishall, Thrust, Choclair, Chekmate, Little X) and Started from the Bottom (Drake, Director X)!

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Nov 4, 6:30pm: LIME KILN CLUB (1913), the first documented film with an all-Black principal cast featuring live piano accompaniment by Thompson T. Egbo-Egbo.

Nov 5, 3:45pm: ETHNIC NOTIONS (dir. Marlon Riggs)

Nov 8, 9:00pm: TO SLEEP WITH ANGER starring Danny Glover.

Nov 9, 8:45pm: CARMEN JONES starring Dorothy Dandridge.

Nov 11, 4:15pm: BODY AND SOUL starring Paul Robeson.

Nov 12, 1:00pm: ANNIE starring Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhane Wallis.

Nov 12, 7:30pm: IMITATION OF LIFE starring Louise Beavers.

Nov 18, 4:30pm: MALCOLM X (dir. Spike Lee) starring Denzel Washington.

Nov 30, 9:15pm: POOL OF LONDON starring Earl Cameron.

Dec 2, 4:00pm: STORMY WEATHER starring Lena Horne.

Dec 3, 6:00pm: COMING TO AMERICA starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl Jones. Introduced by Kardinal Offishall.

Dec 7, 6:15pm: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION starring Will Smith, introduced by Boosie Fade Film Club's Jordan Sowunmi.

Dec 9, 2:45pm: BUSH MAMA + THE DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN, starring Barbara O. Jones, introduced by Lydia Oh.

Dec 15, 6:30pm: RUDE introduced by director Clement Virgo.

Dec 16, 3:15pm: CAR WASH starring Richard Pryor.

Dec 17, 6:30pm: SET IT OFF starring Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox.

Dec 21, 6:15pm: LADY SINGS THE BLUES starring Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams.

Dec 22, 6:30pm: MIDDLE OF NOWHERE starring David Oyelowo.

Location:  TIFF 350 King Street W., Toronto, ON

For more info visit website