Daughers of the Dust
UW Cinematheque 821 University Ave., UW Vilas Hall, Room 4070, Madison, Wisconsin
press release:
USA | 1991 | DCP | 114 min.
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rodgers, Adisa Anderson
The first film directed by an African-American woman to receive a national release is set in 1902 and depicts the daily lives of several Gullah women. The isolation of the Gullah, descendants of slaves who lived off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, helped them to preserve much of their African heritage, culture and language. Dash’s landmark effort, a much cited influence on Beyonce’s Lemonade, has been given a 4k digital restoration on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
Special Presentations:Spring 2017 is filled with numerous special repertory screenings. Our lineup includes several new restorations, including new DCPs of Julie Dash’s landmark movie Daughters of the Dust, Juzo Itami’s uproarious food comedy Tampopo, and Julien Duvivier’s terrific thriller Panique. We will also present a new DCP of the long-thought-lost RKO proto-disaster movie Deluge which will screen as part of a “flood and fire” double feature with a 35mm print of another RKO super production, The Last Days of Pompeii. Other 35mm showings include the ultra-rare "Moment in Time" cut of animator Richard Williams' magnum opus, The Thief and the Cobbler; Ingmar Bergman’s film of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and two fine IB Technicolor prints of Francis Ford Coppola’s two 1974 releases (and Best Picture Oscar nominees) The Godfather Part II and The Conversation. Plus an evening of musical Vitaphone shorts and live musical performance; Al Pacino in William Friedkin’s controversial Cruising; and two very different Cannon Films adaptations of an Elmore Leonard crime novel classic (52 Pick-Up), made only two years apart!
All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public.