Thanks, Ex-Ninja, for your great review of my 1973 movie, “Trapped.” Glad you enjoyed it!
Another terrific blog post about “Booker’s Place”
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… thank you to Playbackstl for the thoughtful review!
Thank you to Icons of Fright for their enthusiastic post about “The Entity”
Here’s the blog post from earlier this year, about “The Entity” coming out on Blu-Ray.
Frank wrote the screenplay, and it was based on his novel of the same name.
A fantastic review from fellow author Steven Weiner
Frank De Felitta, an award-winning documentary film director, author of several best-selling novels and a film director, has written, in L'Opera Italiano, a loving but hard headed and level-eyed memoir of his father, an illiterate Italian immigrant, a womanizer and a gifted mural painter. The feuds and loves are played out in all their foibles, dishonesties, generosities and passion but always with intensity, without sentimentality but with, as is De Felitta’s gift, a full human understanding.
reposting this review from a fellow author...
Indiewire loved Booker’s Place
Here’s a link to Leonard Maltin’s review of Ray’s documentary, which he titled “Revisiting History.”
I had no idea that Raymond’s father, Frank De Felitta, made award-winning documentary films for NBC News in the 1960s. Recognizing this, his son started posting some of his father’s work online. The one that resonated with many people was Mississippi: A Self Portrait, made in 1966. In it, an illiterate black waiter at a popular restaurant in Greenwood, Mississippi unexpectedly opened up for the camera, and told what it felt like to be mistreated by some customers, while always maintaining a smile. This impromptu monologue may have cost him his life.
Sincere thanks
…to everyone who’s purchased the book L’Opera Italiano. Hope you enjoy it!
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For more information about Booker Wright, please check out this wonderful site by his granddaughter, Yvette Johnson.
