Titled Black Star, and running for nearly three months in venues across the UK, the season will feature cinema reissues of key films, in-depth surveys of specific areas such as blaxploitation and hip-hop cinema, and numerous live events including seminars, concerts and on-stage interviews.
But the key film in the set is the sweeping, ebullient swashbuckler "Captain Blood" (1935).
Each of these is a key film in Truffaut's career.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a key film in my life.
Directed by Karel Reisz and released in 1960, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning proved to be extremely popular as well as a key film in the "angry" cinema of the period.
I'm thinking especially of "The Soft Skin," "A Gorgeous Girl Like Me," "Small Change," and "The Woman Next Door". Each of these is a key film in Truffaut's career.
A key film in Australian cinema, Wake in Fright is based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel about John Grant, a weak, frustrated teacher in the outback going to Sydney for Christmas, losing all his money gambling in a bleak town known as "the Yabba", and spending several nightmarish days and nights carousing with hard-drinking locals leading up to a bloody kangaroo hunt.
A key film in this development is the rebooted Rise of the Planet of the Apes series, which charts the passage of a genetically enhanced chimpanzee from animalhood to personhood – or from company property to revolutionary freedom fighter, if you prefer.
This barrage of conflicting views has never prevented Griffith being regarded as a great, ground-breaking director and The Birth of a Nation as a key film in the evolution of the medium.Yet you can't possibly look at it now without understanding the accusations of racism, or the moral embarassment of those critics who used to include it in their lists of the ten best ever made.
