Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson on Sunday night became the first Black women to win the Oscar award for best makeup and hairstyling. Neal, Wilson, and Sergio Lopez-Rivera took home statuettes for their work on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the…
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The last act of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a coda that puts the whole film into perspective, with two moments of violence laid side-by-side in the closing moments of the film. The first, and more explicit, of the two is Levee (Chadwick…
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