{"id":60724,"date":"2019-09-24T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=60724"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:40:34","slug":"bufs-season-continues-with-the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/09\/bufs-season-continues-with-the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"BUFS season continues with The Last Black Man in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next film in the Brock University Film Society\u2019s (BUFS) fall lineup, <em>The Last Black Man in San Francisco<\/em>, offers a heartfelt study of one young man\u2019s devotion to home this Thursday, Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, the childhood house of Jimmie Fails (Jimmie Fails, playing a fictionalized version of himself) has fallen out of his family and into disrepair. He and his best friend, artist and playwright Mont (Jonathan Majors, <em>White Boy Rick, When We Rise<\/em>), devote themselves to the mansion \u2014 complete with its pipe organ, library, and decades\u2019 worth of memories \u2014 fixing it up in spite of the unwelcoming elderly white couple who now live there, and in spite of the fact that their minimum-wage jobs can never touch the house\u2019s current market value of $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome movies tell you a story; others invite you into a dream,\u201d said Ann Hornaday of the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cWithin the life story of one young man trying to rescue his past and claim a right of return, the filmmaker finds an epic history that encompasses postwar migration, the flourishing of the &#8216;Harlem of the West,&#8217; the Haight Ashbury in the \u201960s, redlining, gentrification, environmental racism and the chronic policing of black masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film, a genre-defying collaboration between two debut filmmakers, won a Directing award for Joe Talbot and a Special Jury Award for the creative collaboration between childhood friends Talbot and Fails at Sundance this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets for all BUFS shows are available at the Film House in the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) on the evening of screenings. General admission is $9.50 or $7 for members, plus tax. Memberships are available through the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=FilmHouseMembership&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Film House website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/cpcf\/brock-university-film-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> BUFS web page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a full list of this season\u2019s selections. A calendar of films coming to the PAC over the next few months is posted on the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=FilmHouse&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Film House website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Look for the red B that indicates a BUFS-hosted screening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more than 40 years, the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film has hosted the film society (previously known as a series) to bring some of the best in independent, international and Canadian cinema to St. Catharines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next film in the Brock University Film Society\u2019s (BUFS) fall lineup, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, offers a heartfelt study of one young man\u2019s devotion to home this Thursday, Sept. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,38],"tags":[6970,92,5006,8274,8276,8275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60725,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60724\/revisions\/60725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}