Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, the new exhibition currently on view at Los Angeles” Academy Museum is a revelation, an education, a corrective to our blindered knowledge of American Film history and a lot of fun. It is superbly researched and curated with a wealth of artifacts intelligently installed and displayed, and really makes the case (if it even needed to be made) that the Academy has indeed launched a museum rather than merely a tourist attraction.
At the press preview, Academy…
