Movies Houstonians Love: Nothing But a Man

Comments (0) By D.L. Groover Thursday, Mar 17 2011

Michael Roemer’s Nothing But a Man (1964) is a forceful treatment of the rural black experience after segregation, but the film fell into the art-house circuit and never achieved proper critical or popular recognition. Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses, has deemed this movie his favorite film for the screening series Movies Houstonians Love, and brings it rightfully into the light.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005

Category: Museums

Region: Kirby-West U

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Donald Bogle, author of Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks, describes Man as an inexpensive but sensitively made movie that offers a “grimly realistic and cynical look at black America.” There’s a quiet honesty about the movie that revels in the dusty black-and-white of Robert Young’s cinematography, and in the extraordinary performances of Ivan Dixon as railroad worker Duff and Abbey Lincoln as Josie, the schoolteacher Duff falls in love with and eventually marries. Julius Harris appears as Will, Duff’s drunken, abusive father, and Gloria Foster as Lee, Will’s wife. (Never having the career that her talent warranted, Foster found a new generation of fans with her performance as the oracle in The Matrix.) 7 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-639-7515 or visit www.mfah.org/film. $6 to $7.
Fri., March 18, 7 p.m., 2011