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Catching a Blackfamous White Whale on Broadway: Purlie Victorious Comes Home
On the arc of the 1961 play by Ossie Davis, recently revived with Leslie Odom, Jr.
Odie "Odienator" Henderson has spent over 33 years working in Information Technology. He runs the blogs Big Media Vandalism and Tales of Odienary Madness. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.
A lover of film noir, musicals, Blaxploitation, bad art and good trash, Odie has been a Far Flung Correspondent since 2011. He has written for Slant Magazine's The House Next Door blog since 2006. He is the troublemaker responsible for the Black History Mumf series at Big Media Vandalism. His work has also appeared in The Village Voice, Vulture, Cineaste Magazine, MovieMezzanine, Movies Without Pity, Salon, and of course, here at RogerEbert.com.
In 2013, Odie entered the world of film festival programming, presenting 9 movies at the Off Plus Film Festival in Krakow, Poland.
Based in the NYC area, Odie enjoys writing code almost as much as he enjoys writing prose. Something is wrong with that guy.
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On the arc of the 1961 play by Ossie Davis, recently revived with Leslie Odom, Jr.
On three documentaries that premiered at NYFF, including one by Martin Scorsese.
A tribute to the star of Truck Turner and Star Trek.
A tribute to the star of Something Wild, Narc, Copland, and GoodFellas.
Thoughts on some films from the just-wrapped 2021 New York Film Festival.
A tribute to the star of The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country.
A review of the four-part docuseries from Spike Lee, starting Sunday on HBO.
A tribute to the great comedian and writer, Paul Mooney.
A tribute to the great Cloris Leachman.
Our final NY dispatch on three films from the 2020 festival, including one starring Michelle Pfeiffer and the latest from Pedro Almodovar.
