Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...

A still from director Edward Yang's 2000 film "Yi Yi." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) One of my favorite depictions of a child in all of cinema is an 8-year-old named Yang Yang in writer-director ...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Cade, who saw how hard it is to access movies by Black directors — so she created the Black Film Archive, a collection of nearly 250 films spanning seven decades.

Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...

Birthed from a Twitter thread, which was itself birthed from the much-ness of being Black during a pandemic and another round of Black Rights protests, writer Maya Cade’s Black Film Archive is now ...

The forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by filmmaker George Lucas his wife, Mellody Hobson, has has acquired the Separate Cinema Archive, a collection of 37,000 objects documenting ...

If you saw the most recent incarnation of “Candyman” from director Nia DaCosta — all of it shot in Chicago, some of which takes place amid the remaining Cabrini row houses — you might be compelled to ...

Fans of movies-they-just-don’t-make-like-that-anymore may have already considered which sardonic, misanthropic gem to take in at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s series, Ready for ...

The same week the Oscars once again faced questions about diversity and inclusion in its nominees, George Lucas’ forthcoming Los Angeles art museum announced that it had acquired more than 37,000 ...