Black and White

Pros: It's an interesting concept, and Tobacks' style works sometimes
Cons: a bit pretentious, some REALLY bad acting

I can only speculate about how a film like “Black & White” gets pitched to a studio—did writer/director James Toback express that he wanted to make an inquisitive study of white privileged youth trying to emulate black ghetto life? Or did he tell them...

Pros: A film that needed to be made on the most crucial problem facing America.
Cons: The execution of the film leaves something to be desired.

I am going to recommend Writer/Director James Toback's improvisational film BLACK AND WHITE for its intentions rather than for its execution. There can be no doubt that the single greatest spiritual problem Americans face today is our failure to deal...

Pros: Honest about race relations and sexuality
Cons: Doesn't get deep enough in the usual frustrating Toback way

Toback was mentioned by Football great Jim Brown in his book "Out of Bounds" as a Harvard educated man who could seduce any woman anywhere, the consummate 'Pick-up artist' as it were. Yet he seems to have a weird and quite complicated white man's complex...

Pros: great acting, interesting story
Cons: maybe a bit over the top or extreme

This is a film that points out, yes, there are lines drawn in the sand between the races of our fine country. Director James Toback delivers a film that, while perhaps a bit on the extreme side of things, does make you think about the issues presented...

Pros: It ended, Robert Downey Jr.
Cons: Everything else, technical and aesthetic

This movie, built like a documentary, does very little to dissolve the lines between modern blacks and whites. In fact, it irresponsibly presents differences in blacks and whites based on subgroups and not a representative sample of white and black...

Pros: Real life in a way, gives you an idea of where the line is drawn inbetween blacks and whites.
Cons: Some parts are pretty sick.

This is a very twisted movie about the line that is drawn between the white and black cultures and how they intermix.

It is written and directed very well by James Tobae (Two Boys and a Girl, Fingers)

It is set in New York and...

Pros: Experimental filmmaking when done well can get your attention and keep it the entire movie.
Cons: Barely acceptable depictions of Blacks and Whites. More structure was needed within the improvised performances.

I was interested in watching Black and White, because Hollywood has yet to produce an honest, realistic, no holds barred depiction of the Black and White experience in America.

My opinion is that you cannot talk about Blacks in America...

Pros: Interesting subject, acting
Cons: Plot, acting

This was an interesting movie about the differences between black and white culture and what happens when they mix.

I enjoyed the first 2/3 of the movie. It felt a little like a Robert Altman film, with snippets of people's lives....

Pros: interesting choice of topic for film,nice casting
Cons: bad turns in the plot

Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing this film. While at first I was somewhat wondering at to what this film was really about, after seeing it, I was totally happy with what I saw.Not only did this explore a topic which not too many people talk...

Pros: fascinating, drawn in instantly
Cons: lots of raunchy sex scenes

I rented this movie because I'd read about how it was made - a lot of the dialogue supposedly was not scripted but improvised. I thought it'd be something different and unique and it was! Wow - what a great movie. This film looks at the phenomenon of...