Ashley Clark is a freelance film journalist and film programmer from London, based in New York. He is a recurring guest critic on the BBC’s Film show, writes for The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Village Voice, and VICE, among others; and his book Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (The Critical Press) is out now. Film series curated by Ashley include Inside Afrofuturism (BFI Southbank, Nov/Dec 2014), Space Is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film (BAMcinématek, Apr 2015), and Behind the Mask: Bamboozled in Focus (BAMcinématek, Oct/Nov 2015).
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Articles by Ashley Clark
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From the Magazine
“It was a knockout”: seven filmmakers and writers on Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee’s angry snapshot of racial tensions reaching boiling point in a New York City neighbourhood still resonates. Ashley Clark re-introduces the film, while key figures from the film world explain its hold on their imaginations.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
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From the Magazine
Burning illusions: the long road to Black British film stardom
To mark the Who We Are. takeover of the BFI’s online channels this week, we’re republishing a series of stories from our archives about Black British film past and present – starting with Ashley Clark’s 2016 look at the historical paucity of roles for Black actors in British films.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
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Nonfiction haven: Camden, Maine’s festival on the rise
A burgeoning US hub for the cinematic documentary scene, New England’s Camden International Film Festival encompasses multitudes – including, this year, a standout six-minute archival portrait of municipal farce and hubris. Ashley Clark reports.
Monday, October 31, 2016
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Hip-hop, don’t stop: inside The Get Down
A new generation bigs up the first days of hip-hop in Baz Luhrmann and co.’s Bronx musical. Ashley Clark visits the cast and crew on set.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
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Washed away: lost films by female directors
Cinema’s pre-segregated heyday of female filmmaking is sadly also its most hidden from history. Here seven critics nominate lost treasures they hope might yet be rediscovered.
Friday, October 2, 2015
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The White Knights – first look
Joachim Lafosse’s thriller works ethical wonders with the true story of a group of best-intentioned child abductors in war-torn Chad, says Ashley Clark.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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Of time and the country: Terence Davies composes an epic, gracious if uneven testament to Scottish farming bygones from Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel, says Ashley Clark.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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Our Brand Is Crisis – first look
David Gordon Green’s drama of Rachel Boynton’s political-ops-abroad doc slowly sinks into its very own foreign quagmire, says Ashley Clark.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
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From the Magazine
Selma review: Martin Luther King leads his marchers onward
Ava DuVernay’s dramatisation of Martin Luther King’s leadership of the Civil Rights marches that overcame American voting discrimination speaks powerfully to the present, says Ashley Clark.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
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Back to black: the 101-year making of the oldest black American-starring feature
Ashley Clark on how 1913’s Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day finally got its field day.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
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