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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found new_releases Release: 12-25-2024
More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

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The Paradise Next Door 2021 star_border 6
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The Fight 2020 star_border 5.2
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John Lewis: Good Trouble 2020 star_border 4.6
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Slay the Dragon 2019 star_border 6.6
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