FilmWeek: ‘Night School,’ ‘Smallfoot,’ ‘Little Women’ and the notion that black films ‘don’t travel’

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Sep 28, 2018

Listen • 49:48

FilmWeek: ‘Night School,’ ‘Smallfoot,’ ‘Little Women’ and the notion that black films ‘don’t travel’

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Tim Cogshell and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also discuss how genre, region and the cast’s race might impact a film’s success overseas.

The March sisters, and Marmee (Lea Thompson), enjoy a video call with Papa March while he is deployed, in the movie "Little Women"

FilmWeek: ‘Night School,’ ‘Smallfoot,’ ‘Little Women' and more

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Tim Cogshell and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases.

Analysis of the notion that black films ‘don’t travel’

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For decades, European and Asian distributors have overlooked Hollywood films with non-white casts based on the justification that international moviegoers are simply not interested.

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