John Singleton

I need one injection of culture.

He makes movies that I usually think I like until 5 mins afterwards when I realize they were utter shit.

I never got to see 2 Fast 2 Furious and I still want to. It seemed like a trashy 80s throwback homoerotic action buddy picture. I bet it's probably a fun film.

I take it Baby Boy is actually worth checking out. I'm actually excited for this new one because the ad promises both fraternal humor, seriousness and some badass torture scenes in the name of revenge. Plus a guy getting an ax to the chest while climbing up a rope! Damn!

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oscar-nominated director John Singleton was driving a Lexus SUV when it struck and killed a jaywalker who stepped in front of the car, police said Friday.

Singleton, 39, immediately stopped his car and waited for police to arrive after the accident Thursday night in the city's Jefferson Park neighborhood, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.

"Mr. Singleton stopped and identified himself as required by law and was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol," Lee said. "He was questioned and released."

The woman was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead Friday morning, Lee said. She was identified as Constance Russell, 57, of Los Angeles.

Other details were not immediately released, and an after-hours call to Singleton's agent was not immediately returned.

Singleton, whose debut film, 1991's "Boyz N The Hood," earned him two Oscar nominations, has also directed "Poetic Justice,""Shaft," and "2 Fast 2 Furious." He was the producer of "Hustle & Flow,""Black Snake Moan" and the just-released "Illegal Tender."

"2 Fast 2 Furious."

so really, Jack Warden is very funny in Bulworth

bulworth seems to be a 'network' for its era, maybe. or at least it was attempting to be.

beatty has had a strange directorial career, def made some films that are o_O and he's not made many, but he's more interesting than redford.

who isn't

John Singleton?

If only because an ambitious young director dropping the overbaked "passion projects" and segueing into a decent action career is more understandable than a wooden stud spending decades promoting torpid americana

How do Bulworth and John Singleton connect? Serious question...I'm lost. I even checked the full credits to see if he produced it or something.

they both suck

have not seen one of Redford's since Quiz Show, which tho overrated was not torpid.

none, clemenza, a lil joke after Singleton fans ruined the Bulworth thread

beatty has had a strange directorial career, def made some films that are o_O and he's not made many, but he's more interesting than redford.

The only Redford-directed flick I love is Quiz Show. Beatty meanwhile has, what, Reds? It's very far from dull, has a few great sequences, but isn't a good movie.

Okay, I just read some of that. Have to strongly disagree with SMC about Boyz n tha Hood--I think it's one of the best American films of the '90s. I probably have a slight preference for Menace II Society--Godard to Boyz' Truffaut--but I think Boyz is great nonetheless. Nothing Singleton has done since has meant anything to me.

imho in the '90s redford should have directed 'rex morgan m.d.' starring himself

lol

hah, Singleton directed the new Barechested Twilight Teen "thriller"

Singleton first made his name in 1991 when he wrote and directed “Boyz n tha Hood,” a deeply personal inner-city drama that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Now at the helm of tentpole action thrillers, Singleton admitted that he’s not the same guy who once shepherded that intimate character study from his ‘hood to Hollywood. “I’m not the same filmmaker I was when I made that,” he said. “I’m totally different; I’ve evolved, I’ve changed, I’ve gotten better, and I’ve gotten more nuanced as a filmmaker. I’m the same guy, really, but I’ve just evolved and gotten older.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/director-john-singleton-in-a-coma-after-major-stroke-195500527.html

looks bad : /

major bummer

he never really topped Boyz n the Hood, though his other films had moments of real power. He'd only directed one theatrical feature since Four Brothers (which i have a soft spot for), and that was Abducted (w/Taylor Lautner...never saw it).

BNTH was really a crucial film alongside all the L.A. hip hop of the era for depicting Los Angeles as it had never been seen before by anyone who didn't live here. It was one of those VHS cassettes i wore out as a teenager living in farm country. and as i said on another thread, its violence (and the violence of Menace II Society) was not even OTT, back in 1992 there were nearly 2600 murders in L.A. County vs the few hundred that annually occur in recent years. I imagine it's possible the film maybe had a slight influence on people taking the tragedy of the violence a bit more seriously but idk.

dead

^ good mourning

Had no idea he was so young when he directed BNTH.

Weird thing is Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (the actor who played the abusive cop in BNTH) died three days ago.

roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6323-the-passion-of-john-singleton

Just hearing about this now. Wow--young. Still love Boyz n the Hood--as many have pointed out, I'm sure (or some variant of), Truffaut to Menace II Society's Godard.

I tried rewatching Rosewood; it's the first time in years I've been unable to finish a movie because anticipating the last hour of violence had me in knots. Finishing Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Stony the Road last week didn't help either.

Brooklyn retro next month

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/the-cinema-of-john-singleton