Because films are what many people love, the actual criticism usually gets overlooked. I've seen a great deal of criticism leveled at black filmmakers, but the criticism itself is not very impressive, yet no one seems to take that part of the equation very seriously. Can we really expect the films to advance while the criticism remains stagnant? It's for this reason that I want to address the issue and talk about someone who gets no love at all these days. I'm talking about Lester Walton. I suspect that many of you have never heard of the man so I'm going to give you an idea of what he was about. Mr. Walton wrote for one of the early African-American newspapers known as New York Age. He...
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