Sambizanga (1972)
Directed by Sarah Maldoror
Written by Sarah Maldoror, Maria Coelho Pinto de Andrade
Starring Domingos Oliveira, Elisa Andrade
Release Date Unreleased 1972
Coming Soon from the Criterion Collection Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
Martin Scorsese is working to build the film education anyone willing to watch along. With his work with The Film Foundation, Scorsese has started an incredible online film club where every month a work of historic film significance is made available for free for a single day for fans to watch together online. There is no cost to watch these incredible movies curated by and with an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Fans can interact via an online chat or can simply watch the film for via the partnership of Scorsese, The Film Foundation and Delphi.
This has been going on since the early part of 2022 and has brought about the opportunity for film lovers to watch remarkable works such as the 1945 Powell and Pressburger feature, I Know Where I'm Going, Federico Fellini's 1954 masterpiece La Strada, the 1979 Indian feature film Kumattyand most recently a fully restored and rediscovered cut of Sarah Maldoror's lost African classic, Sambizanga. Lost to time over rights issues, a cut of the film was found moldering and fading in a French warehouse several years ago. Once it was out of the tangled web of distribution issues, the experts at the film foundation and Cineteca De Bologna, took up the painstaking work of restoring the print so that it could be presented to the world again.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
