Special event at Wichita Art Museum celebrates Oscar Micheaux

Special event

▪  “An Evening with Oscar Micheaux” – Tallgrass Film Association and the Wichita Art Museum are teaming up to present this celebration of Kansan Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951), best-selling novelist and the first major African-American feature filmmaker.

The program will include a screening of the 2014 biopic “Czar of Black Hollywood,” which explores Micheaux’s career. That will be followed with a screening of Micheaux’s groundbreaking 1925 silent film “Body and Soul,” which has been digitally remastered.

Tallgrass staff and special guests will participate in a discussion after the films.

The program starts at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. Museum Blvd. Admission is free.

Best bets opening Friday

▪ “Race” – Biopic that follows Jesse Owens’ quest to compete in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.

▪ “The Witch” – Strange events befall a farmer and his family when they are banished to the edge of an ominous forest in 1630 New England.

Also opening Friday

▪ “Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer” – A husband fed up with his nagging and nitpicking wife comes up with a plan to end the unhappy union.

▪ “Risen” – A Roman military tribune (Joseph Fiennes) is given the task of investigating the mystery of what happened to Jesus following the Crucifixion.

Rod Pocowatchit

This story was originally published February 18, 2016 at 1:42 PM with the headline "Special event at Wichita Art Museum celebrates Oscar Micheaux."