Black Star: The Wiz 
Join us in celebrating some of cinema’s greatest talents in Black Star, a major new season from the BFI.
Black Voices: A season of films featuring legendary singers and iconic performances; stories of love and life, hardship and redemption…and dancing
Michael Jackson steals the show in a ghetto-fabulous, all-star Motown transposition of Oz to late-70s New York.
The time has surely come for this ghetto-fabulous, all-star Motown transposition of Oz to late-70s New York. Michael Jackson certainly steals the show as a body-popping Scarecrow, but there’s so much more here. The sheer vista of the dance numbers – yes that’s the World Trade Center plaza playing the Emerald City – evokes the opening ceremony of some fantasy African-American Olympics. If you can suspend disbelief – and can accept a 33-year-old Diana Ross as Dorothy – then you will love this film. With a brilliantly funky soundtrack from Quincy Jones.
Other films in the BFI Black Star: Black Voices programme are:
