Good
morning Phoenix! It’s time for some Friday Flicks! Since Halloween is
over, we’re done with the Fright Flicks for now…. I’m sure you’re glad
about that!
This week’s selection opens in theaters today, and promises to be a powerful film. It is based on a true story – Loving.
Plot: Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married. The only way to avoid prison time is to forever leave the town and State where they were born and raised, never to return. Homesick amid the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, Mildred writes to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The ACLU takes their case before the US Supreme Court. The rest is history.
Trivia:
• Before their 1967 Supreme Court victory, Mildred and Richard Loving had two years earlier lost a lower-court appeal of their conviction for violating the Virginia law against interracial marriage. The judge who refused to vacate that conviction, Caroline County Circuit Court Judge Leon M. Bazile, wrote in his decision that "almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his [arrangement] there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
• The U.S. Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia (388 U.S. 1, argued on April 10, 1967, and decided June 12, 1967) unanimously held that Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act of 1924," which forbade marriage between people of different races, was unconstitutional. This decision therefore effectively voided all such laws in other states as well (at the time, interracial marriage was still illegal in at least 15 other states) and was used as precedent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that likewise declared all laws banning same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional.
• Director Jeff Nichols was able to tell the story of the Loving family as accurately as possible by relying on Nancy Buirski's documentary The Loving Story (2011), which captured many details of their private lives: "We had this beautiful documentary footage unearthed from the mid-'60s where we got to go into their home and see them and watch them," Nichols said. "It's an unusual thing to have access to." [2016]
• Mildred Delores Jeter Loving's 2008 New York Times obituary reported that her ancestry was both part African American and part Native American on both sides: Rappahannock on her maternal side; Cherokee on her father's. The obituary also said that she preferred to self-identify as Native American rather than African American.
• Received a standing ovation at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016.
No known goofs in filming at this time.
May we never return to times such as those.
Have a fangtastic Friday everyone!
<3 Brock V"""V
This week’s selection opens in theaters today, and promises to be a powerful film. It is based on a true story – Loving.
Plot: Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married. The only way to avoid prison time is to forever leave the town and State where they were born and raised, never to return. Homesick amid the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, Mildred writes to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The ACLU takes their case before the US Supreme Court. The rest is history.
Trivia:
• Before their 1967 Supreme Court victory, Mildred and Richard Loving had two years earlier lost a lower-court appeal of their conviction for violating the Virginia law against interracial marriage. The judge who refused to vacate that conviction, Caroline County Circuit Court Judge Leon M. Bazile, wrote in his decision that "almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his [arrangement] there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
• The U.S. Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia (388 U.S. 1, argued on April 10, 1967, and decided June 12, 1967) unanimously held that Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act of 1924," which forbade marriage between people of different races, was unconstitutional. This decision therefore effectively voided all such laws in other states as well (at the time, interracial marriage was still illegal in at least 15 other states) and was used as precedent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that likewise declared all laws banning same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional.
• Director Jeff Nichols was able to tell the story of the Loving family as accurately as possible by relying on Nancy Buirski's documentary The Loving Story (2011), which captured many details of their private lives: "We had this beautiful documentary footage unearthed from the mid-'60s where we got to go into their home and see them and watch them," Nichols said. "It's an unusual thing to have access to." [2016]
• Mildred Delores Jeter Loving's 2008 New York Times obituary reported that her ancestry was both part African American and part Native American on both sides: Rappahannock on her maternal side; Cherokee on her father's. The obituary also said that she preferred to self-identify as Native American rather than African American.
• Received a standing ovation at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016.
No known goofs in filming at this time.
May we never return to times such as those.
Have a fangtastic Friday everyone!
<3 Brock V"""V
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