Lilies of the Field (1963): The Beauty of Black and White

To know Sidney Poitier is already a blissful thing for me. I don’t mean I know him in a situation where I meet him, but simply just like a movie viewer who knows an actor. It will be even more blissful if I can meet him in person. In my eyes, he is the part …

A Patch of Blue (1965): The Blind Girl and Her Fairy-Prince

Produced in the era where racism was still alive, A Patch of Blue is a movie where love can happen anywhere to anyone. Guy Green directed the movie which brought up a message, love is blind. He himself is, as I read, a director who often created movie with message, usually about the recent issues. …

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967): Brave but…

1960s might be the time where racism was still alive. To produce movie with colored actor as the main cast is probably something that will bring threat even before the movie starts its production. But one star appeared in this time, the colored one, Sidney Poitier. This was not his first movie where colored person …