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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama music film, directed by George C. Wolfe, starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo.
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60 of 89 · most liked firstJust woke from a hack's nightmare: I'm holding court at a party and Wendell Pierce busts out laughing, says I just nicked dialogue from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wut? He whips out play, points to page. "You Gus-Wilson-thieving motherfucker. Fool someone who didn't go to Juilliard." Sat up sweating.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was lucky to get to be a background actor in the Academy Award-winning film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday we celebrated the birth of the Queen of Jazz. Today we acknowledge the birth of the Mother of the Blues. Born as Gertrude Pridgett, you know her better as Ma Rainey. Famously memorialized in August Wilson's play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (whose birthday is tomorrow)
neutral · AI labelView post →Chadwick Boseman Died 4 years ago today. We were just getting to see him become the actor and star he was meant to be. Beyond Black Panther. If you haven't seen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" on Netflix, go watch it! 1/3
positive · AI labelView post →2020 MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM (Wolfe)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sturdy adaptation lifted by August Wilson's language. Strong performances all get blown away by Chadwick Boseman's posthumously released turn; he's pure electricity, a massive talent choked by understandable rage that's ultimately (and tragically) misplaced.
positive · AI labelView post →Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson.... Pittsburgh native, the late great playwright August Wilson was born 71. Denzel Washington famously said, "The greatest part of what's left of my career is making sure that August is taken care of."
neutral · AI labelView post →Stills from: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) boxd.it/mLcm Black Panther (2018) boxd.it/8MHs Da 5 Bloods (2020) boxd.it/lnXw 42 (2013) boxd.it/3GBo
neutral · AI labelView post →#OscarsMonth #filmsky #moviesky Day 22: V Viola Davis Oscar: 2017 Actress in a Supporting Role: Fences 3 Nominations: 2021 Actress in a Leading Role: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2012 Actress in a Leading Role: The Help 2009 Actress in a Supporting Role: Doubt
neutral · AI labelView post →Oscar 4-Timer Club: Viola Davis 2008 Doubt 2011 The Help 2016 Fences (win) 2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom #filmsky 🎥📽🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetsDoIt25 31 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 1927 “She created "classic blues" while portraying black life like never before. A musical innovator, she built on minstrelsy & vaudeville with comedic timing & a hybrid of the American blues traditions she encountered in her vast tours across the country.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I like Al killing a guy for spilling wine on him bc for his exp w the music industry for AotM in '22, I'd just seen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" & drew inspo from Chadwick Bozeman's character, where a lifetime of microaggs culminate in killing a guy for scuffing the nice shoes he could FINALLY afford.
neutral · AI labelView post →This episode of Raising Fame with Chadwick's family is destroying me, and we're not even halfway through. Still cannot believe we live in this world without him. Also, 🖕🏾 The Academy for not awarding him the Oscar for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
positive · AI labelView post →The actual Gertrude “Ma” Rainey AKA “The Mother of the Blues” (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was a queer blues singer who began her career as a young teenager in Georgia (where a home she lived in is now a museum dedicated to her). She claimed to have created the term “the blues”. #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #MaRainey #blues
neutral · AI labelView post →In my review of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, I note that though the film ends tragically, with Levee’s dreams destroyed, the story is really about the wider historical influences on that end. The story also tells us about the continuing un-mattering of Black life. folukeafrica.com/the-other-st...
neutral · AI labelView post →The first 5 minutes of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (film) is *chef's kiss* storytelling
positive · AI labelView post →After the curtain call for tonight's performance of the excellent Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at @goodmantheatre.bsky.social, lead E. Faye Butler announced that cast member Matt DeCaro had died this morning and that this and all subsequent performances were dedicated to him.
neutral · AI labelView post →The music was arranged & supervised by jazz saxophonist and musicologist Branford Marsalis, a member of the legendary Marsalis Jazz Family. You can listen to the soundtrack here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRW80bBvVD3VxViB4KYAZk0PPrTEXNp9a&si=inwME9QA87pF9F_Z) #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #BrandfordMarsalis #blues #jazz
neutral · AI labelView post →Incredibly enough, I had never seen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" onstage until this Goodman revival, which is . . . incredible. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
positive · AI labelView post →Oh hey, another excuse to talk about [Obex](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzpC2tpO7I)... But also, [Quentin Dupieux](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133398-quentin-dupieux) (Rubber, Deerskin, Reality) is making his first English language film since 2013: [Full Phil](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1554364-full-phil), starring Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Tim & Eric and others. Denzel Washington, who committed to producing film adaptations of every one of August Wilson's Pittsburgh…
neutral · AI labelView post →“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is almost entirely fictionalized. It’s part of the ten-play “Century Cycle” by August Wilson which is 10 plays set to depict 100yrs of Black American life and experiences. Only Ma Rainey is a real person, the others are composites of various people. #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetsDoIt25 #musicchallenge Day 13, Song 1 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1927) youtu.be/cph7qZoE5d8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →In this review of the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, I explore what it tells us about cultural appropriation, the continuing unmattering of Black life & why we cannot understand the last scene without the first scene... which isn't in the movie or our history books. folukeafrica.com/the-other-st...
neutral · AI labelView post →This review of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" explores what a legacy of strange fruit means for how we view the past and the present. It asks who owns culture and suggests that we cannot understand the last scene without the first scene... which isn't in the movie. folukeafrica.com/the-other-st...
neutral · AI labelView post →For the curious: “Black Bottom” was a popular dance in the 1920s #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
neutral · AI labelView post →August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM runs thru March 2. It's almost completely sold out, a handful of evening tickets are still available, give us a call at (313) 868-1347 to book your seats! ...and check out this wonderful writeup from @metrotimes.com ! www.metrotimes.com/arts/ma-rain...
neutral · AI labelView post →I havent seen it, but Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was Chadwick Boseman's final film. Actually, his last six films: Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, 21 Bridges, and Da 5 Bloods were all filmed after his diagnosis and during his treatment. He went out like an absolute giant. e: Damn, now I have to add Giant, James Dean's final film.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Dussie Mae” is based on blues singer Bessie Smith AKA “The Empress of the Blues” who was ~mentored~ by Ma Rainey for a while #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
neutral · AI labelView post →2/4 excellence can be found on free and paid streaming services, including apps available from your public library. Here are a few recommendations: Selma Rustin The Six Triple Eight Shirley American Fiction Descendant The Piano Lesson Hidden Figures Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 42 Till Harriet 13th
neutral · AI labelView post →2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015: Spotlight 2016: Arrival 2017: Get Out 2018: BlacKkKlansman 2019: Parasite 2020: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2021: Dune 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon 2024: Nickel Boys
neutral · AI labelView post →I was VERY cynical in 2021 but even I assumed the Academy would give Chadwick the Oscar for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Readers they did not.
positive · AI labelView post →I Watched: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2000) Chadwick Boseman's final role, released after his death, was in this adaptation of an August Wilson play set during a 20s blues recording session of the real life "Mother of the Blues" Ma Rainey (Viola Davis). Fairly engrossing, I'd say. #Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →The entire band (Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts) and Viola Davis learned how to play their instruments to the best of their ability for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. Davis actually sings “Those Dogs of Mine” (https://youtu.be/Z7aXO0zaHEY?si=I3E-v0IE3PemUDPN) but she’s dubbed by Soul/R&B/Jazz singer-pianist Maxayn Lewis in the rest of the film #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #ViolaDavis
neutral · AI labelView post →Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Incredible emotion by Chadwick Boseman in his final performance.
positive · AI labelView post →Viola Davis, Elizabeth Olsen, Jodie Foster I'll watch anything with Viola Davis. She tricked me into watching Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. It's a great movie and she played the role really well, but that was a rough movie to watch.
positive · AI labelView post →Random Movie Recommedation Day 95 & 96: Fences (2016) & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Oscar-winning adaptations of August Wilson plays starring Viola Davis.
neutral · AI labelView post →You can read August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” for free via your public library’s Libby app or here (https://archive.org/details/maraineysblackbo0000unse) #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #AugustWilson
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to watch a none Black Panther Chadwick Boseman movie-check out Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on Netflix. Fantastic film and performance.
positive · AI labelView post →12 Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 13 Bukka White, Black Bottom 14 Bukka White, Bukka's Jitterbug Swing 15 Earl Hooker, You Shook Me www.mixcloud.com/Woodyroy/pur...
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw him perform in the live version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom here in LA and dude can fuckin act AND play a mean standup bass
positive · AI labelView post →It's #FilmFriday & today we are going to take a look at some of the costumes from the 2020 movie "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" about the recording of the legendary "Mother of the Blues", Ma Rainey's famous song "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". #MovieCostumeHistory #FashionHistory #BlackHistory
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 21st century. 2020: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Poor Levee walked right into a metaphor #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess no one explained to Dussie Mae the role of the lead singer’s girl in the studio 👀 #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
neutral · AI labelView post →🎶… Went out last night with a crowd of my friends / They must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men…🎶- “Prove It On Me Blues” (https://youtu.be/yRyaUcVfhak?si=k32VhtUjISMUIg70) #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
neutral · AI labelView post →11 August 1965 – Viola Davis, 61, US actress. Oscar: Fences (2016) Three nominations: Doubt (2008) The Help (2011) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Tony Awards: King Hedley II (2001) Fences (2010) Traffic (2000) * Solaris * Scandal * How to Get Away with Murder * Widows * The Woman King (2022)
neutral · AI labelView post →My Song of the Day... Ma Rainey "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [78] 1927 #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=cph7...
neutral · AI labelView post →Dutton was the original Levee on Broadway in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
neutral · AI labelView post →@MatthewTitus88 yeah, from what I can tell this was all digital but cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler and director George C. Wolfe really took care to make it look classic with just the right amount of “grain” and expand it from looking like someone just pointed at camera at a stage play #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
positive · AI labelView post →New newsletter: "Some Things I've Seen Recently, Including a Pair of Squabbling Lesbians and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." (Some headlines SEO-optimize themselves, no?) open.substack.com/pub/treygrah...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a frustratingly hard request because there's no reason there shouldn't be more of these movies. The Half of It 2020 The Watermelon Woman Black Mirror: San Junipero Saving Fave 2004 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom The Color Purple 2023 ?? Pariah Revolutionary Girl Utena I Can't Think Straight
neutral · AI labelView post →They can't all be Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
negative · AI labelView post →Couldn't finish Da Five Bloods or Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; felt too soon for both. I've watched Black Panther a few times since and definitely cried, but I always cry at that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Viola Davis [you might know her from How To Get Away With Murder or Ma Rainey's Black Bottom] wrote a book, a memoir/biography I shall say: FINDING ME. I'm listening to it via audio and since it is fabulously read by herself you should too, it's a really meaningful one. <3 #rebcommendations #ViolaDavis #FindingMe #HowToGetAwayWithMurder #MaRaineysBlackBottom #bookstodon @thestorygraph @bookstodon
neutral · AI labelView post →“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is based on the 1982 August Wilson play of the same name. It tells the fictionalized story of the tensions between Blues legend Ma Rainey and her Band while in a Chicago studio c. 1927 #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #AugustWilson
neutral · AI labelView post →Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cph7... #Blues #Peace
neutral · AI labelView post →Not as good as Fences, but better than Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. It still feels a little too "stagey" for stretches, but there are several really good performances-- from Danielle Deadwyler, Samuel L. Jackson, and (most surprising to me) Ray Fisher-- that make it worth watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →> Look at the cowboy hat. A great example of the degradation of culture through Americanization. The modern bright-white cardboard stiff western hat is a facsimile of a facsimile mass produced so a bunch of oil tycoons could play-act as working class cattle rustlers with the oodles of money they harvested from the native population. > It was derived from prior art, but it turned into something uniquely American When you watch a crowd of old white businessmen in cowboy hats talk about how…
neutral · AI labelView post →★★★★★ André Hereford calls "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" a commanding, beautifully acted production that mines August Wilson's drama for anger, laughter, and devastating tragedy. Now at Round House. www.metroweekly.com/...
neutral · AI labelView post →★★★★★ André Hereford calls "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" a commanding, beautifully acted production that mines August Wilson's drama for anger, laughter, and devastating tragedy. Now at Round House. www.metroweekly.com/...
neutral · AI labelView post →DMV people: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom delivers an intense theater experience, as I tried to convey in my review. Check it out at the Round House. www.washington-unbound.com/bookreviews/...
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