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REVIEWS ARCHIVE: Brown Sugar It is the second film from director Rick Famuyiwa to explore the roots that tie African Americans to hip-hop, the first being his 1999 comedy "The Wood." Famuyiwa obviously has a fondness for the early-80s era of street corner rhymes and break dancing, and he translates that love without a drip of sweat. The most discouraging part of "Brown Sugar" is that it appears Famuyiwa truly seems to believe that he's doing something different with his romance, something that the audience can't see coming from a mile away. "Brown Sugar" is most compelling when Famuyiwa is trying to communicate his feelings about the music world and relationships, and not in the formulaic vessel that carries this tale. www.ifvchicago.com /reviews/archive/brownsugar.shtml   (607 words)

Brown Sugar (2002) The film also spotlights Webster Hall, one of the early venues for artists; radio station Hot 97 and DJ Angie Matinez, one of the first outlets for rap airplay; and even urban rap magazine XXL plays an integral part in the film as it’s the employer for one of the main characters. She opens the film with an introspective monologue that tries to convey to the viewer where she was when she first discovered her love for hip-hop. Brown Sugar is one of those films that falls squarely in the middle — it’s not a bad film by any stretch, but it doesn’t do anything to set itself apart either — it’s just one of those romantic comedies that you watch, you enjoy, and then you move on. www.dvdmg.com /brownsugar.shtml   (1829 words)

Brown Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Both films are stories about people whose love for music is so much a part of their lives, they'd gladly put themselves on the backburner, as long as only the finest examples of their passions are heard. This is a film about two people who grew up with hip hop, became friends with hip hop, and, at this next stage in their lives, learn to fall in love with hip hop. Brown Sugar is the sort of film where you can just tell right away that this isn't going to be yet another run-of-the-mill comedy about mismatched relationships and people who spend 89 minutes apart, using that one last minute to finally realize each other's existence. www.ajhakari.com /b/brownsugar.html   (880 words)

DVD Review: Brown Sugar This film goes over much of the same ground, but it's smart, funny, sweet and I liked how it looked at the importance of music in these people's lives - even those who are fans of another form of music besides hip-hop will likely understand how these characters feel. Sharpness and detail are standard, as the film's bright outdoor scenes appeared crisp and fairly well-defined, although night scenes could appear a bit lacking in detail and clarity. The film's color palette was generally well-rendered, as the film's warm color palette looked well-saturated and clean, with no smearing. www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/brownsugardvd.html   (798 words)

Movie Review - Brown Sugar - eFilmCritic "Brown Sugar" is one of those romantic comedies where two people who obviously belong together are kept apart for most of the running time before they finally realize what has been obvious to the rest of us from the beginning. It is unfair to criticize such a film for being predictable, therefore, for surprises are not endemic to the genre. In the case of "Brown Sugar," the answer is no. This is cookie-cutter stuff, noteworthy for having an African-American cast -- fl romantic comedies are still rare -- but for little else. efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=6194   (491 words)

Review: Brown Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Those looking for a concise description of Brown Sugar could refer to it as the "African American When Harry Met Sally." After all, it is a romantic comedy that asks the popular movie question of whether a man and woman can be platonic friends without sex becoming an issue. In Brown Sugar, they have no difficulty convincing the audience of their love for hip-hop and for each other, even though they consistently delude themselves about any feelings pertaining to the latter. Brown Sugar is undemanding fun capable of providing two hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys a smart story with plenty of romantic tension. www.movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/brown_sugar.html   (571 words)

October 2002 | blackfilm.com | reviews | film | brown sugar Brown Sugar is a beautifully rendered ode to hip hop and the joy that was had back in the day of innocence, expression and art. Brown Sugar is a visual asset roster of the who’s who of young Black Hollywood as well as a roll-call for old school/neo-old school hip hop heads replete with cameos from Russell Simmons, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Talib Kweli, Common, ?uestlove, Black Thought, Jermaine Dupri and more. Throughout the film we chuckle in humorous agreement about what it meant and still means, on a good day that is, to be hopelessly in love with each other and that socio-economic force called hip hop. www.blackfilm.com /20021011/reviews/brownsugar.shtml   (575 words)

blueyonder > channels > brown>sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Their answers to the question, "when did you first fall in love with hip-hop?" reveal that the romance with the music is heartfelt and everlasting.Brown Sugar has the distinction of being one of the first feature films to shoot on location in New York following the tragic events of September 11, 2001. During the pre-production phase, the filmmakers scouted the city in search of the perfect locations to illustrate hip-hop's birth and ongoing evolution within the city. Brown Sugar is released in the UK on the 18th of July 2003 blueyonder.co.uk /blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=51656&...   (304 words)

Brown Sugar - About the Production The film, an insightful exploration of male friendship, also proved that he knew how to make music an integral and seamless element of the story. I thought that it would be interesting to make a film where the characters' love for the music spoke to the love that they had for each other. All film stills, trailers, video clips and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and may not be reproduced for any reason whatsoever. www.hollywoodjesus.com /brown_sugar_about.htm   (1204 words)

Brown Sugar - In theaters October 11 In 1996 the film was one of only 29 films selected from 1,500 submissions to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival and earned Famuyiwa the distinction of becoming the first undergraduate from USC to ever have a film shown there. BROWN SUGAR marks Earvin "Magic" Johnson's debut as an executive producer on a feature film. In 1997, he wrote and directed his graduate thesis film EL RIO, which garnered second place at the 1998 NYU Wasserman Awards, the Best Student Short Award at the 1998 Hamptons Film Festival and both the Best Student Short and Audience Awards at the 1998 Shorts International Film Festival. www2.foxsearchlight.com /brownsugar/filmmakers.html   (1103 words)

BROWN SUGAR - DVD There's a lot of talk of integrity in Brown Sugar, and a lot more of the defiant nature of good hip-hop; if the film embodied either of those traits in its words or pictures it would be a perfect ten. Alas, for all of Brown Sugar's hue and cry over the mainstreaming of the music, the film is tediously commonplace in its attitudes; director/co-writer Rick Famuyiwa treats hip-hop mania like the sedate cream-coloured furniture his protagonists seem to enjoy--just another tony item to be collected. To truly do the script justice, he would have had to match a passion for film with the passion that his characters (ostensibly) have for hip-hop--his total insensitivity to form traps all of his talented actors (the excellent Lathan especially) in an artistic cul-de-sac. www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/brownsugar.htm   (883 words)

[No title] WOMEN AND FILM: REPRESENTING RACE AND ETHNICITY Emory University, Spring, 1994 Instructor: Maria T. Pramaggiore E:mail: mpramag@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu RELEVANT INFO: I taught this as a mixed undergrad/grad class (not my choice) and the reading was too heavy for undergrads, although a few stuck with it. I distributed handouts with film information (production personnel, actors) and discussion questions. We will appraise whether feminist film theory, postcolonial theory, and/or cultural studies' discussions of race, ethnicity and sexuality account for the politics of representation in these films, in both formal and thematic terms. www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/Syllabi/ArtMusicFilm/women+film   (504 words)

Brown Sugar Film Review - Time Out Film Lathan is 'brown sugar' ('sexy, but no 'ho'), the journalist Sid, recently promoted to editor of 'XXL' magazine; and Diggs is her love object Dre, an executive with sell-out 'issues' at Millennium records. The film is packed with HH stars playing their inimitable selves, and it includes a good album's worth of their music. The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies. www.timeout.com /film/68535.html   (375 words)

FILM REVIEW: Brown Sugar This film's music is as important as its lead actors, and both rescue a romance story from its own predictable trappings. Brown Sugar's first scene is a montage of hip-hop heavyweights talking about the moment they first fell in love with the music. Granted, Brown Sugar places its characters in a la-la land of affluence, with predictable dialogue spars and the obligatory happy ending. www.chartattack.com /damn/2002/10/1102.cfm   (905 words)

Brown Sugar DVD at Video Universe This film does it, using Hip Hop as a metaphor for the two main characters relationship is an interesting slant. Brown Sugar is one of those movies that makes you wish all of it happened to you. A "Brown Sugar 2" should definately be considered but certainly not without Queen Latifa and Mos Def. www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/5449269/a/Brown+Sugar.htm   (730 words)

Amazon.com: DVD: Brown Sugar (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) The film may call itself "Brown Sugar," but the aftertaste is closer to NutraSweet. I'd hesitate to call "Brown Sugar" a bad movie, but it doesn't offer much of a challenge nor does it deviate from material we've seen in other, better movies. This was a film that puts a smile on your face, and brings you back to the good days of hip hop. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JLON?v=glance   (1310 words)

Film Review: Mo' Betta 'Brown Sugar' If you can imagine that making a good film is a little like making a hearty stew, then think of "Brown Sugar" as enough good acting, writing and direction to make you feel full and warm. Following the relationship of hip hop writer Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) and hip hop producer Dre (Taye Diggs), "Brown Sugar" uses the music passion shared by both to thicken this romance that, once again, has a Black woman checking her watch and patting her foot. Her work, combined with fine contributions by Diggs and the rest of the cast, keep "Brown Sugar" from becoming the next predictable hip hop romance. www.seeingblack.com /x101002/brownsugar.shtml   (484 words)

Movie Spoiler for the film - BROWN SUGAR Brown Sugar starts out with a voice-over narration from Sidney Shaw (Sanaa Lathan), a hip-hop journalist who has begun each interview for the past ten years with the same question: When did you fall in love with hip-hop? She thanks him for the best 5 minutes of her life and sends him on his way because she has to meet Kelby. Dre and Chris go to a radio station to get Chris' single, "Brown Sugar" (also the name of the record company), on the air. www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/brownsugar.html   (1339 words)

Brown Sugar VHS movie only $6.75, get the Brown Sugar movie on VHS From BestPrices.com! Rick Famuyiwa breathes a refreshing burst of air into the romantic comedy genre with BROWN SUGAR, a film that is as much a tribute to hip-hop as it is a celebration of friendship and love. Sidney gives him a loan to support his bold new venture, but it is this unflinching support that eventually begins to grate on Reese and Kelby, forcing Dre and Sidney to confront their true feelings. Famuyiwa's crowd-pleasing film is boosted by Mos Def and Queen Latifah's hysterical supporting performances. www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/024543073703IE   (324 words)

[ITM] Brown Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Brown Sugar is ultimately a romantic comedy about hip-hop and a childhood crush between friends. Brown Sugar is light hearted and has its funny moments. However, if your looking for a soppy, humorous flick with hip-hop references and a few good beats then Brown Sugar may just be the movie for you. www.inthemix.com.au /p/np/viewnews.php?id=14418   (638 words)

Brown Sugar - Motion Picture Soundtrack The music industry setting for the film, recently wrapped, has made for some very interesting casting. The film was written by Michael Elliot ("Carmen: A Hip Hopera" for MTV) and Rick Famuyiwa ("The Wood"). The film will be in theaters October 11, and the soundtrack is in stores now. www.okayplayer.com /newsletter/brownsugar   (371 words)

Brown Sugar - Movie Release & Trailer Directed by Rick Famuyiwa (THE WOOD), BROWN SUGAR stars Taye Diggs (HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK), Sanaa Lathan (LOVE and BASKETBALL), Mos Def (MONSTER'S BALL), Nicole Ari Parker (REMEMBER THE TITANS), Boris Kodjoe (LOVE and BASKETBALL) and Queen Latifah (THE BONE COLLECTOR). The film is produced by Peter Heller (LIKE MIKE) and co-produced by Trish Hofmann (IGBY GOES DOWN). Elliot decided to base the story on lifelong friends who, as adults, come to the realization that they are also in love with each other. www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/brownsugarx25x06x03   (330 words)

AbsoluteAvP - Aliens, Predators, Humans...We Help You Stay Alive! Lathan starred in the romantic comedy "Brown Sugar," for which she earned an NCAAP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. In the popular films "La Lupa" (1995) and "Palermo Milano Solo Andata" (1995), he starred with Giancarlo Giannini; in "Il Sindaco" with Anthony Quinn and Carole Bouquet; and in the film "Madame D" (2000), a French remake of the famous Madame de, he toplined with Maz Ophuls. His recent film, "La Finestra Di Fronte", directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, was the top grossing Italian film in Italy this year and won five ‘David di Donatello’ Awards (the Italian Oscar), including Best Film. www.absoluteavp.com /sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=111   (935 words)

Amazon.com: Music: Brown Sugar [Copy Protected CD] [CONTENT/COPY-PROTECTED CD] [CONTENT/COPY-PROTECTED CD]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Usually when you listen to a soundtrack, the 3 or 4 singles are built up as hype to pull the consumer to make a purchase and once you do buy the CD, even the main artists are unable to pull their own weight. "Brown Sugar" starts off with the first of 3 versions of the title cut. Brown Sugar has always been my favorite soundtracks and movies I ever saw and listen to while still in high school. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006JKCG?v=glance   (1770 words)

Brown Sugar Though you can guess the outcome of Brown Sugar at the beginning, Lathan and Diggs imbue this romantic comedy with a lot of charm. Some feel that the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys is a superior movie about the titular cultural trend-setters, a group of teen surfers-turned-skateboarders who brought the sport to the mainstream. "All in all, Brown Sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted. www.rottentomatoes.com /m/brown_sugar   (1082 words)

Baltimore City Paper: FILM Brown Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Brown Sugar likes nothing more than to wax poetic about "real" hip-hop--so why does the film feel so R&B? Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) bonded over school-yard cyphers. Now, as grownups, Sidney keeps it real as a nationally known hip-hop critic, while Dre works as an exec for a big label. Still, Brown Sugar outperforms other excessively smooth, predictably resolved romantic comedies in occasionally daring audiences to feel something for its characters. www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?id=3116   (244 words)

Too Many Chefs: February 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) The shallots and carrots naturally become sweeter with the roasting, but when a hint of sugar and ginger are added all four combine to make a complex sweet and spicy mixture of flavors. I bought it, not wondering why a region would have a brown, pink, and white flag until later when I found out the flag of Naples is half yellow, half red. Mix together with a fork until the graininess of the sugar is gone and the mix is smooth. www.toomanychefs.net /archives/2005_02.php   (14375 words)

Brown Sugar film movie trailer review at The Z Review Brown Sugar film movie trailer review at The Z Review Have your say on Brown Sugar in The Z Review's Forum This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of Brown Sugar and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline. www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/b/brownsugar.shtm   (115 words)

SFA | Southern Foodways Symposium Themes This class, staged on Thursday prior to the official opening of the symposium, will be free of charge to the first twenty registrants. This year we screen two SFA-produced films, underwritten by the Fertel Foundation and directed by Joe York. His first film, Saving Seeds, was a finalist for the Golden Snail Award at the Slow Food on Film Competition in Bra, Italy. www.southernfoodways.com /sym_04.shtml   (1930 words)

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