Melvin Van Peebles: Tributes to ‘godfather of black cinema’ who has died aged 89

Ed Meza @edmezavarCohen Film Collection is gearing up for a number of newly restored releases, among them Simon Callow’s 1991 drama “The Ballad of the Sad Café” and a number of Buster Keaton works.Part of New York-based Cohen Media Group, Cohen Film Collection restores classic films and re-releases them theatrically.

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James Austin Johnson impersonating the president, telling the audience he had a “bad summer,” but “not Cuomo bad” – a reference to disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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The 59th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Friday night with back-to-back world premiere screenings of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth as the Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington-starrer met with loving applause at Lincoln Center’s full Alice Tully Hall.

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NEW YORK -- Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the “Blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after, has died. He was 89.His family said in a statement that Van Peebles, father of the actor-director Mario Van Peebles, died Tuesday evening at his home in Manhattan.“Dad knew that Black images matter.