945 - A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Random Acts of Cinema

Uh oh. It’s a movie based on a play. Can the screen presences of Hollywood legends Sydney Poitier and Ruby Dee possibly transcend this stage-to-screen adaptation that only adds a couple of quick cut-away scenes of a single alternative setting to an otherwise one-room story? Well… yes. Pretty easily, it turns out. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922).