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We’re going light and easy with simple romances this week. First a fairly modern one, then a 90 year old classic Fred & Ginger affair. Originally, the hairy part of this set was going to be a combination of cringe from the Chris Rock vehicle, “Top Five”, but though its plot better meshes with the musical entry, “Top Five” is NOT good enough for Blorp. No. Instead we’ll get an almost flawless film, “Love Jones” and leave the cringe solely in “Swing Time” which goes along quite nicely until we hit the blackface number. Uhg. If you want to make a movie hard to watch, blackface will certainly do it.

Love Jones (1997)

1h 48min 58sec, English with hard coded English subtitles
Director/Writer: Theodore Witcher

A poet and photographer in Chicago explore their growing relationship while discussing love with friends. When she tests his feelings, romantic complications follow.

from https://letterboxd.com/journal/underseen-romance-crew-picks/ :

There is a swooning image from Theodore Witcher’s Love Jones that’s never left my mind. It features Nina Mosley (Nia Long) holding onto Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate), as the latter zips the pair on his motorcycle up Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive through the cavernous elegance of the city’s loop…[]… Tate and Long are not only immeasurably beautiful actors—they’re also complex performers who transmit the possibilities of Black love through a boundless sense of longing, hurt and resilience that makes Love Jones so timeless and so firmly ingrained in the heart.

Swing Time (1936)

1h 43min 35sec, English with hard coded English subtitles
Director: George Stevens

Fred Astaire, the roguish gambler/dancer “Lucky” Garnett, is challenged by his fiance’s father to come up with $25,000 to prove he’s worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Ginger Rogers, Lucky’ll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.

Content Warnings

Love Jones : U.S. rated R
Sex & Nudity: Moderate
Violence & Gore: None
Profanity: Severe
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes: None

CWs from https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/241448

someone stalked?
obscene language/gestures
fat jokes
n-word
religion discussed
sexual content
nude scenes
someone sexually objectified
natural bodies of water

Swing Time: U.K. rated U, U,S, TV-G
Sex & Nudity: None
Violence & Gore: None
Profanity: None
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes: None

blackface plus other CWs from https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/80255

cheating?
“Man in a dress” jokes
blackface
car honk / tires screech

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https://letterboxd.com/film/love-jones/
https://letterboxd.com/film/swing-time/

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