is officially on Netflix, and theGrio connected with the film historian and filmmaker behind the acclaimed documentary: Elvis Mitchell. The project is described as both “a documentary and deeply ...

Attempting a nuanced and caring overview of Black screen history in a little more than two hours is an unenviable task, but film critic turned writer-director Elvis Mitchell’s first foray into d ...

When you think of Black cinema in the ’70s, images of XL afros, platform shoes, big guns and even bigger personalities likely come to mind. But beyond the legacy of fun catchphrases and iconic ...

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Elvis Mitchell’s Netflix documentary “Is That Black Enough for You?!?” is an entertaining, informative look at the era in cinema called Blaxploitation. It features a chronological listing of ...

Mitchell's enthusiasm buoys our "Salon Talks ... Then being Crosby to Dean Martin to Elvis Presley. I mean even seeing the movie "Elvis" and seeing Sister Rosetta Tharpe in that made me think ...

In “Is That Black Enough for You?!?,” Elvis Mitchell’s highly pleasurable and eye-opening movie-love documentary about the American Black cinema revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s ...

The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell says he gets a little obsessed about Christmas movies this time of the year. But what counts as such a genre? Mitchell muses that a Christmas movie can be anything ...

A critic's movie-love documentary artfully celebrates and deconstructs the decade when African-American audiences, for the first time, could see themselves onscreen. In “Is That Black Enough for ...