The real reasons that ‘Streetfight’ was banned from movie theatres in the 1970’s…
AL SHARPTON and ROY INNIS did what most of the paid-off so-called Black leadership does by vociferously obfuscating the content of the film and by boycotting and picketing the screenings that were held until the studio releasing the movie had been extorted into backing out of the film’s distribution.
ROY INNIS, is a washed up footnote now. And AL SHARPTON tenuously holds onto his position as a so-called negro leader. Let’s see how fall SHARPTON’s star drops when the SEAN BELL cops are fully acquitted. You need to check this film out just for the performances of PHILLIP MICHAEL THOMAS, SCATMAN CROTHERS and BARRY WHITE.
Saturday, April 19th
Anthology Film Archives
7:00 PM Heavy Traffic
9:00 PM StreetFight a/k/a Coonskin (on a restored 35mm print)
32 2nd Avenue, NYC
Tickets $8 at the door, good for one or both features.
Dude, I remember you posting about this movie back in 2006/2007 – I’m not quite sure. But the point is: Streetfight is dope. I love it.
I didn’t know about Bakshi’s movies until that post, and since then I’ve tried to hunt down his movies. The art style of the 70s stuff is so cool, in that messy way – if you know what I mean.
Anyway, keep up good work, Dallas.
The intro to the movie by Scatman is crazy.
D, check out http://www.supremenewyork.com/ and click the link for the Spring/Summer 08 Preview. They have pieces based on Coonskin. Not my cup of tea, but I thought it was interesting. That website also has some video footage of Bad Brains in the Random section.
I was introduced to Bakshi’s work through Cool World, after that I started searching for more. He’s definitely one of the most important animators coming out of America.
Like how Magic Johnson wouldn’t show Belly in his theaters…Great glamorization of drugs and crime when the most hardcore cat turns religious and his boy goes to Africa and gets out the game. I hate when people “of consequence” don’t do any research.
By the “from the creators of Cool World”, Im guessing you can buy an “Official” copy of this, right?
My copy is one of those shady looking 1/2 bootlegs from the Porn/KungFu spot on 1st Ave. (also, my copy is calledc Coonskin, not StreetFight)
Would it be in bad taste to ask dude to sign that shit?
Nigeria,
I posted about Streetfight in 2006 and I did another drop last year when the restored movie was being shown in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse Film Festival.
Vee,
I’m glad you saw that Supreme site. I did a drop on that shirt that I scheduled for posting later on this week. You just motivated me to bump up that drop (no Ye Tudda Graduation)
No word on whether an official DVD will be released for StreetFight aka Coonskin. However I have a DVD, the quality is good, but not great. However you can definitely get Heavy Traffic and most of his other films from Amazon or any other retailer.
StreetFight is available on VHS.
Classic Bakshi on Youtube:
Heavy Traffic (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptGXx2Y7brI
Coonskin (Trailer & Part 2 on…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQtB5c92qg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrIzO3TLrEU
Hey Good Lookin (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGlYE0PEwkM
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Coonskin was the original– & always intended– title, as far as I know. I guess for the re-release they decided to take away the easiest way to ‘protest.’ Dallas, do you know Bakshi’s Brooklyn movie, “Hey Good Lookin’?” from 1982? Bakshi’s from Brownsville too– wish there was $$$ to have him do a proper M.O.P. or Sean Price video.
Question, Dallas: how did you get hip to “Street Fighter” in the first place? Via one of his later movies or maybe the Darius James book? I admit I missed both those but in a book called “Black Like You” by John Strausbaugh, “Coonskin” is rightly praised as best of all so-called “blaxploitation” flicks, tho’ it obviously needed a lot of the others before it to work from.
The Music Director
Who Walk In Brooklyn
You can buy Coonskin on DVD from a vendor next door to the Apollo, by the video game store. Bakshi’s awesome, this is his best movie.
^^^^^^^ thats wear i got mine from a longgggg time ago!!!!^^^^^^
You know we need to round up the gang for that BK Midnite “Iron Man” jernt.
^^^^
*sneaks 40’s into theater again*
WWIB.
Streetfight was in my VHS collection way back in 1990. SoundWave was the man with all the great blaxploitation flicks, the Petey Wheatstraw Dolemite classics as well as the standards like Black Ceasar. Fam knows I go apeshit for animation and he placed this joint over Fritz the Cat.
*sneaks dutchie of stickie into theater*
Bakshi’s unfinished lord of the rings shits on Peter Jacksons’. Have any of you seen Holy Mountain? It is kind of a crackersploitation flick that pushes some of the same buttons as Coonskin, but more on Christianity over race. It is where they got that Company Flow sample “Our clients are the governments, we make toys for children so they know who to make war with” or something to that effect.
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