37 years ago Mississippi Burning (1988) directed by Alan Parker premiered in Washington, D.C. “From its opening sequence, Mississippi Burning convincingly recaptures the racial dread of 1964 Mississippi. But the verisimilitude is soon sacrificed for a bogus conclusion: … the film amounts to a cinematic lynching of the truth.” Jack E. White | History of Cinema

69 years ago, Throne of Blood (1957), directed by Akira Kurosawa, premiered in Japan. A 1961 New York Times review famously dismissed the film as “serio-comic” and “a pictorial extravagance that provides a conclusive howl.” | History of Cinema