Oscilloscope Finally Releases ‘Cane River,’ and a Son Seeks His Father’s Long-Lost Filmmaking Legacy
Barely released in 1982 and all but unseen for over three decades, Horace B. Jenkins’ “Cane River” was an independent-film anomaly: a race and colorism-themed love story with an all-black cast, written and directed by a black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black backers. Sadly, Jenkins died the same year — long before the film resurfaced in 2013, when its original negative was discovered in the vault of New York City’s DuArt Film & Video. Seven years later, “Cane River” is getting the release it deserved.
The film first premiered in New Orleans in May 1982. Richard Pryor, then shooting “The Toy” in Baton Rouge, attended the screening in disguise. He loved it so much that he offered to use his star power to help get it out. But the backers, the New Orleans’ Rhodes family — owners of a successful funeral business that has specialized in serving Black families since the Civil War — passed on the offer,...
The film first premiered in New Orleans in May 1982. Richard Pryor, then shooting “The Toy” in Baton Rouge, attended the screening in disguise. He loved it so much that he offered to use his star power to help get it out. But the backers, the New Orleans’ Rhodes family — owners of a successful funeral business that has specialized in serving Black families since the Civil War — passed on the offer,...
- 2/7/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
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