Collections/August 2022

Starring Yaphet Kotto

Featuring a new introduction by journalist Jamelle Bouie With his powerful presence and refusal to take on roles he deemed demeaning, the late Yaphet Kotto left behind a legacy of dynamic performances that helped blaze a new trail for Black actors on-screen. Intense, fearless, and committed, Kotto often lent his passion and intelligence to finely shaded characters distinguished by their moral ambiguity and psychological complexity. Whether playing a villain for the ages in Larry Cohen’s ruthlessly subversive racial satire Bone , an autoworker fed up with the indignities of working-class life in Paul Schrader’s piercing drama Blue Collar , or an unsung American hero in the stirring historical drama A House Divided: Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion , Kotto was never less than electric.

7 films — 0 on the Channel, 7 unavailable