Essential Cinema: Once Upon a Time in South Central LA: John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy

Director	John Singleton
Year	1991
Country	USA
Runtime	1h 52m
Format	35mm

Synopsis

“Powerful. A benchmark for a new wave of Black American cinema in the early 1990s.” —Ashley Clark, curatorial director at the Criterion Collection

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