In the ever-evolving landscape of cinema, where storytelling increasingly depends on multi-sensory immersion, Award winning ...

A recent BFI season ‘Black Rodeo’ paid homage to the counterculture phenomenon of the African American ‘western’ and its bold repudiation of mainstream Hollywood tropes. At the European premiere of ...

The first of Cooper’s “Harlem Trilogy” (which also includes Sugar Hill and Above the Rim), New Jack ... the city-conquering gangster Nino Brown (Snipes), but Mario Van Peebles’ camera ...

Mario Van Peebles Mario Van Peebles ... I adapted, and adaptation played well into acting. You directed New Jack City. In 1991 it was a watershed film, as the first film in the New Black Realism ...

Image From left, Ice-T, Vanessa P. Williams, Wesley Snipes and Christopher Williams in “New Jack City.”Credit...Warner Bros. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, the film featured breakout ...

Cooper certainly understood the outlaw allure; in 1991 he co-wrote the Mario Van Peebles-directed hit film New Jack City, based partly on his Voice feature. NOTE: The advertising disclaimer below ...

Starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson, and Mario Van Peebles, 1991's New Jack City was lauded by critics ...

Barry Michael Cooper revealed the surprising story behind Pookie’s casting in New Jack City – a tale ... After he did that scene, Mario [Van Peebles] and I applauded.” Beyond his comedic ...

Cooper made his feature screenwriting debut with Mario Van Peebles’ “New Jack City,” which he co-wrote with Thomas Lee Wright. The film starred Wesley Snipes and Ice-T as a gang leader and a ...

Perhaps the most famous feature film he worked on was New Jack City, directed by Mario Van Peebles from a screenplay by Cooper and Thomas Lee Wright. In the film, Ice-T's detective character goes ...