Ngozi Onwurah, {1995} Welcome II The Terrordome

Just a series of films that I watched during February.

if my professor OKs me doing this as my presentation, very excited to finally make real my double feature called "Movies That Take Thier TItles from the Public Enemy Album Fear of a Black Planet" composed of the 1995 hard-hitting dystopian thriller in 4:3 from debut director Ngozi Onwurah WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME and the absurd 1993 rap mockumentary FEAR OF A BLACK HAT. these two movies literally only have their titular references in common, truly. and i want to make people experience them together

dreaming of starting a movie club (streaming periodically on discord) that's just the most self-indulgent double features i can dream up. this would include things like:

titular public enemy - welcome ii the terrordome (dystopian drama), fear of a black hat (mockumentary)

lesbian imagination - a comedy in six unnatural acts (anthology of shorts), murder and MURDER (docufantasy)

eloise elevator heists - it's a mad mad mad mad world, detective, what's up doc

suck it ian fleming - ironfinger (spy comedy), the spy with my face (re-cut TV episodes released for film)

one man show - portrait of jason (documentary), secret honor (historical fiction)

movie of all time - tampopo (perfect), making of tampopo (also perfect)

autodocumentary - cameraperson (documentary), polisse (drama)

also an entire suite of Your Best Friend Unfortunately pairings, such as:

knock knock - girlfriends, mikey and nicky

for love or money - in bruges, the dumb waiter

yipee - the long goodbye (1973), the banshees of inisherin

Welcome to the Terrordome!

Deathlok II #11

After a bad 2-parter, the series rebounds. To average.

Deathlok protects High-Tech from Terrordome.

Curtis Carr (formerly Chemistro; now using the awful name High-Tech) steals something. His endgame is noble, however. So, when our hero shows up he feels obligated to defend the thief from the real villain (who also has a terrible name, and looks pretty stupid). It’s an average story. Enjoyable, if a bit wordy.

On Sale Date: March 24, 1992.

Total Paid Circulation: 228,975 (average: #6-17).

Wizard Top 100: #28.

Dwayne McDuffie (1 of 6).

Denys Cowan (12 of 16).

6/10

Welcome II The Terrordome (1995) dir. Ngozi Onwurah, cinematography by Alwin H. Kuchler

Welcome II the Terrordome (1995) dir. Ngozi Onwurah

Welcome II the Terrordome dir. Ngozi Onwurah (1995)

Flight of the Swan (Ngozi Onwurah, 1992, UK)

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a ‘black swan’.

Onwurah is seen as a “forgotten pioneer of Black British Film” despite “being the first black British woman to have a feature film theatrically released in the UK” which was Welcome II the Terrordome (1994). Her visionary and uncompromising works is encapsulated in that “what they expect a Black woman film-maker to be making is definitely not the kind of movies I want to make” (x).

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(Born in Flames) // Mark Stewart and the Maffia - Jerusalem (Handsworth Songs) // Sam Waymon - Seduction (Ganja and Hess) // Diamanda Galas - This is the Law of the Plague (Silence = Death) // David Wojnarowicz - (Silence = Death) // Trevor Mathison (Handsworth Songs) // Society Waits for You (Society) // Red Krayola - End Titles from Born in Flames // Can - Gomorrha (The Last Days of Gomorrah) // (Song of the Shirt) // (The People's Account) // - // Brian Mcomber - Afronauts // Tony Rémy - protest montage (A Passion of Remembrance) // Carl Vine - An Island (Bedevil) // (A Different Image) // (Drylongso) // Mukul - ALGO-RHYTHM // Smarty - Le chapeau du chef (Le President) // 911 Is a Joke (Welcome II the Terrordome) // Joseph Charles - The Neighborhood Bobby (A Passion of Remembrance) // Tony Rémy - Main Titles from A Passion of Remembrance // Mark Stewart and the Maffia - Jerusalem (Handsworth Songs) (reprise) // Kimyan  Law - Run Ames (Naked Reality) // (Drylongso) // J. J. Johnson - Top of the Heap // Wasis Diop - Ramatu (Hyenas) // End Titles from Welcome II the Terrordome

Joe streaming in 4:3 aspect ratio....... thinking about the 4:3 film archives. it absolutely tracks

If you were to browse through one of the major cinema chains' listings for today, you would likely find a vast array of movies of different genres. Yet, in spite of all the variety, chances are you're not going to be able to spot a single title told from the perspective of a woman of colour. Such films are few and far between, even though black female-driven narratives are a proven audience-draw. Hidden Figures" and "Queen of Katwe" have long since concluded their cinema runs, and "Everything, Everything" is not coming to the UK before August, so currently you'd be hard pressed to find a movie starring a woman of colour. This is not only disappointing but also bitterly ironic, since, as journalist Stephanie Phillips observes in her essay "Myth, the supernatural and black female storytelling," narratives centered on - and created by - black women make for some of the most engrossing and delectable tales in existence. By way of example, Phillips offers three timeless titles written and directed by women of colour - Kasi Lemmons' "Eve's Bayou," Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust," and Ngozi Owura's "Welcome II the Terrordome". Phillips explores the supernatural and mythical elements in the films, explaining how they serve as tools of empowerment for POC actors and viewers alike. Her illuminating (and exquisitely written) essay makes us wonder, once again, why the film industry still chooses to silence the creative voices of women of colour who have so much to say. Read the whole essay here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/myth-supernatural-black-female-storytelling

BFI Giving David Oyelowo's Shoot The Messenger A Blu-ray Release

BFI Giving David Oyelowo's Shoot The Messenger A Blu-ray Release @BFI #ShootTheMessenger #BluRay #DavidOyelowo #NgoziOnwurah @BBCFilm

Considered a true landmark in the history of Black British film, Shoot The Messenger. 16 years after it’s release (2006), Ngozi Onwurah’s (Welcome II the Terrordome) BBC film will be released on Blu-ray for the first time later this month released  by the BFI. The film stars David Oyelowo, a London based IT consultant who becomes a school teacher. All thanks to the system failing black students…

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Welcome II the Terrordome (1995) dir. Ngozi Onwurah