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Aug 21, 1975 · “Coonskin,” which opened yesterday at the Trans‐Lux East and the Bryan, is a shatterigly successful effort to use an uncommon form—cartoons and live action combined —to convey the hallucinatory...
Coonskin. Action. 100 minutes ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 3 min read. Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” is said by its director to be about blacks and for whites, and by its ads to be for blacks and against whites.
[2] Eventually, positive reviews appeared in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, the New York Amsterdam News (an African American newspaper), and elsewhere, but the film died at the box office.
Mar 13, 2015 · Cartoons with a conscience: Jimmy T. Murakami’s “When the Wind Blows” (1986) gently addressed nuclear annihilation, while Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” (1975) tackled racism.
Jul 11, 2016 · A subversive and satirical re-imagining of Disney’s Song Of The South transplanted to Harlem, Ralph Bakshi’s incendiary masterpiece Coonskin exploits and eviscerates grotesque American racial stereotypes with a politically incorrect, profane and vicious sense of humor.
Review: A convict tells the story of three friends, a rabbit, a fox and a bear, who moved up to Harlem to take on the gangsters and police at their own game. Ralph Bakshi's audacious, exuberant, in-your-face mix of live action and animation caused a lot of controversy when it was first released, with many accusing it of racism, despite his ...
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Coonskin: Directed by Ralph Bakshi. With Barry White, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas. Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.
