And, besides, other ancestors were themselves enslaved. Peter, a very handsome college football star who has rejected a professional career, returns home to Cane River to ride horses and write poetry. Cane River Creole National Historical Park increases Recreational Access to Historic Buildings July 31, 2020 / NPJ Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Cane River Creole National Historical Park is increasing recreational access to additional historic buildings at the park. When Peter first meets Maria, she is reading Sometimes, Peter protests that the past shouldn’t have any bearing on their lives. Some of his verses find their way onto the soundtrack, by Leroy Glover and Phillip Manuel, over montages that are like naturalistic miniature music videos. It’s what the characters express toward one another (even at moments of high conflict) and what the director conveys, toward them and the landscape they inhabit, in every shot and musical cue.The warmth of the film can feel like a political stance, an assertion of humanist ethical values that has a subtle but radical power. He’d rather write his poems, and find other ways to impress the sometimes skeptical Maria.For his part, Jenkins is careful not to flatten his characters into representatives of a narrowly defined community or point of view. For Sunday, May 17, 2020: We will be meeting at our facility located at 725 Woodyard Dr in Natchitoches. Cane River Green Market. He doesn’t think of himself as not black, but he also doesn’t like to think about race too much. BAM, in partnership with Oscilloscope Films, is delighted to bring back Horace B. Jenkins’ newly restored and rediscovered This long-lost gem of Black independent cinema was shot in Natchitoches Parish, a historically “free community of color” in Louisiana, with an entirely African-American cast and crew. BAM, in partnership with Oscilloscope Films, is delighted to bring back Horace B. Jenkins’ newly restored and rediscovered Cane River, which was a hit at our cinemas in February.. This farmers market is located at: Downtown Riverbank, Natchitoches, LA 71457 — See below for the 2020 schedule (if available) Maria’s skin is darker than Peter’s, she attends a Baptist church (he is Catholic), and her mother and brother don’t approve. August 1, 2020 and it feels like a cool Fall evening cruising this evening onboard the Cane River Queen with social distancing we offer mask & hand sanitizer to all our patrons enjoying the Sunset But Jenkins’ themes and big ideas make “Cane River” a debut film with promise, ambition and social currency. You can intuit something similar — an unstinting, sympathetic attention to the intimate matter of black lives — in Charles Burnett’s ‘Cane River’ Review: A Lost Treasure of Independent CinemaRichard Romain and Tommye Myrick as young lovers in Horace B. Jenkins’s 1982 feature “Cane River.” The dominant feeling in “Cane River” is affection. It’s complicated. The Cane River Waterway Commission’s lawsuit against its contractor, Womack & Sons Construction, remains pending. “You’ve got to know where you’ve been, to know where you are going.”As Cane River opens, the music creates a cool atmosphere intr All are welcome to attend, but we will be following social distancing protocols, and we will still be live streaming for those who aren’t physically able to assemble. He meets Maria while touring a local plantation once owned by his Creole landowning family.The difference in their backgrounds — a difference of religion, class and color — gives their relationship a Romeo-and-Juliet quality. Subjected to collecting dust in exile, the film was rightfully restored in 2013. An at-once frothy and socially incisive romance-cum-family melodrama, 50% of ticket sales go to support BAM, helping to ensure the future of BAM’s adventurous programming.BAM partners with Kino Lorber to present a virtual revival run of Nancy Kelly’s underrated gem of 90s American independent filmmaking, a feminist take on the classic Manifest Destiny tale.A painter learns that his girlfriend was recently seen having drinks with another man in Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s comic mystery of mistaken identity, excessive drinking, and lots of he-said, she-said.Shola Amoo’s semi-autobiographical story about a British boy of Nigerian heritage who leaves his foster home in rural England to live with his birth mother in inner-city London.“CANE RIVER is a work of visionary artistry and progressive imagination.”As we brace for the impact of this crisis, your generosity is critical.