Actor Wesley Snipes Gets Film Series at BAM for 25th Anniversary of White Men Can't Jump
- Nadine Matthews
- Mar 22, 2017
- 2 min read
Modern black film, where blacks were featured on-screen and/or off, began coming into its own commercially speaking in the nineties. There were films like Boyz in The Hood, House Party, Menace to Society, Love Jones, Daughters of The Dust, Boomerang, Poetic Justice, Candyman, and Eve's Bayou just to name a few. They were powerful and engaging and many resonated with audiences from diverse backgrounds. Representing all genres from comedy to romance to horror, a good number of these films have just passed their twentieth anniversary or are approaching their twentieth and have stood the test of time.
Wesley Snipes Was One of The Most Formidable and Recognizable Black Actors to Emerge in The 90's
After Denzel Washington, perhaps the most formidable black actor in commercial features during the nineties was Wesley Snipes. Snipes' surprising charisma and versatility made him one of the most sought after black actors in America of that era. He was just as believable as an adulterous, miscegenetic architect in Jungle Fever, a cryogenically frozen crime lord of the future, a roadtripping drag queen of To Wong Foo Julie Newmar Thanks for Everything, to a cynical basketball hustler in White Men Can't Jump. Snipes is also one of the few black actors to have had his own film franchise, starring in three Blade movies.
BAMcinematek Will Celebrate Wesley Snipes and White Men Can't Jump Mach 31st to April 9th
From March 31st thru April 9th, Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinematek will celebrate Wesley Snipes and the twenty-fifth anniversary of White Men Can't Jump by screening eleven of his films. The series includes: White Men Can’t Jump (Shelton, 1992), Major League (Ward, 1989), New Jack City (van Peebles, 1991), Jungle Fever (Lee, 1991), One Night Stand (Figgis, 1997), Undisputed (Hall, 2002), Demolition Man (Brambilla, 1993), Passenger 57 (Hooks, 1992), Blade (Norrington, 1998), Blade II (del Toro, 2002), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (Kidron, 1995).
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