The Delaware Art Museum Celebrates Black History with Festive Films from The 1990's

WILMINGTON - This February, DelArt Cinema celebrates Black History Month with a series of screenings that show just how powerful love can be.  

From finding your significant other-type-of-love, to the love for a friend that ends up getting you in trouble, to love that’s so uniquely “family”; these films highlight one of the most prolific eras of black filmmaking. A generation of filmmakers who wanted to tell their own stories from their own perspectives and would do what was necessary to make it happen. 

DelArt Cinema will host screenings every Saturday at 1:30 pm, with free screenings for members on the last Saturday of each month. Family-friendly screenings will take place on the second Sunday of each month at 1:30 pm. Refreshments will be available downstairs near DelArt’s 160-seat auditorium, including snacks from Kaffeina Cafe and a bar offering beer and wine.

Here's the Line-up!

February 1: Crooklyn (1994) - If his debut film She’s Gotta Have It was the initial spark of the Black New Wave, his filmography as a whole is an inferno. Spike Lee has been a driving force in storytelling for decades and Crooklyn is his most personal. Read more.

February 8: House Party (1990) - Director Reginald Hudlin was a fan of American Graffiti. He even admired the films of John Hughes.He kept thinking how black Americans have these experiences too…but they’re not on the big screen. Read more.

February 9: Good Burger (1997) - Standing up to corporate America and supporting the local business. No, this isn’t a Michael Moore documentary. It’s even better. Read more.

February 15: Love Jones (1997) - As the Black New Wave was ending, there was still room for something new…even if‘new’ was only new to Hollywood. Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It in 1986 put the spotlight on black love. Eddie Murphy’s Boomerang kept it on in 1992 but with a focus on comedy. Read more.

February 22: Love & Basketball (2000) - Could you have both love and a career? Gina Price-Bythewood’s coming-of-age tale of two neighbors-to-companions asks just that. Read more. Read more.

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