IFC and Comcast Present the Washington, DC Premiere of BAADASSSSS CINEMA a Bold Examination of the 70s Blaxploitation Films.Entertainment Editors Special Public Screening of the IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. Original At Visions Cinema, Bistro, Lounge On Wednesday, July 31 At 7:00PM The Independent Film Channel (IFC) presents BAADASSSSS CINEMA, a groundbreaking IFC Original directed by Isaac Julien (Cannes Critics' Prize Winning Young Soul Rebels). The film looks back at the soulful soul·ful adj. Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional. soul  ful·ly adv. , strange days of the 70s to explore an exciting and controversial era of film history: the phenomenon that was blaxploitation blax·ploi·ta·tion n. A genre of American film of the 1970s featuring African-American actors in lead roles and often having antiestablishment plots, frequently criticized for stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence. . The IFC Original documentary will premiere at Visions Cinema, Bistro, Lounge in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 31 at 7:00PM and is sponsored by Comcast. Visions Cinema, Bistro, Lounge is located at 1927 Florida Avenue NW. A panel discussion with Isaac Julien, BAADASSSSS CINEMA director, and Elvis Mitchell, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times film critic and documentary interviewee, will immediately follow the screening. Blaxploitation films took their cue from the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, casting black actors for the first time in starring roles, as heroes instead of victims. These films drew larger African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. audiences than any others before or since, yet they have long been relegated to the category of "exploitation" and thus kept outside the canon of cinema history. A bold re-examination of this position, BAADASSSSS CINEMA combines archival material with footage from black action films such as Coffy, Blacula, Superfly, Black Caesar, Foxy Brown, Shaft, Hell Up in Harlem, Sweet Sweetback's BaadAsssss Song along with many others, to argue that blaxploitation films were in fact complex reactions to social situations and inequalities: works that reveled in the ridiculous and gave relief from rage with powerful imagery and humor. BAADASSSSS CINEMA premieres Wednesday, August 14 at 10:00PM (ET/PT) on IFC. "Films like `Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' really invented a black audience. Of course, the audience had always been there, but it had never had black actors and films to represent to its own experiences in such an explicit way," comments Director Isaac Julien. Isaac Julien's films also include the award-winning Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Langston (1989), the two-part documentary Black and White in Color (1992), the highly acclaimed The Darker Side of Black (1994) and his feature length biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was an author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. : Black Skin White Mask (1997). Isaac's recent work includes the short film Three (1999) and The Long Road to Mazatlan (2000). BAADASSSSS CINEMA is the cornerstone of IFC's on-air festival airing from Wednesday, August 14 to Saturday, August 17. See blaxploitation icon Pam Grier This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. kick some butt in Foxy Brown (Jack Hill/1974) on Wednesday, August 14 at 11:00PM/ET. There was never a dude like Superfly (Gordon Parks, Jr./1972), starring Ron O'Neal and featuring Curtis Mayfield's legendary soundtrack, airs Thursday, August 15 at 10PM/ET. Richard Roundtree is back for more in Shaft's Big Score (Gordon Parks/1972) on Friday, August 16 at 10:00PM/ET. You can catch them all together back-to-back on Saturday, August 17 beginning at 8:00PM/ET. IFCTV.com will rollout its BAADASSSSS CINEMA content beginning July 15. Site features will include the "Which BaadAsssss Are You" Quiz, in which participants can determine which BaadAsssss icon they most resemble, a BAADASSSSS CINEMA postcard, the "BAADASSSSS CINEMA Kit" Sweepstakes, an exclusive Q&A with director Isaac Julien, in addition to programming descriptions and scheduling information. 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