Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Wendell B. Harris Jr. made his first — and, even three decades on, still only — film, “Chameleon Street,” he offered up a ...

Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s subversive landmark film ‘Chameleon Street’ has been given a proper 4K restoration by Arbelos Films. Written, directed, and starring the Juilliard-trained Wendell B. Harris Jr, ...

Growing up in Flint, Wendell B. Harris was only 4 when he watched a movie on TV — 1931's "The Public Enemy" with James Cagney — that influenced the rest of his life. ”It was as if the art of cinema, ...

"I think, therefore I scam." Arbelos Films has revealed a new trailer for the 4K restoration of this award-winning indie comedy titled Chameleon Street, which originally premiered in 1989 at the ...

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Doug Street is a lawyer, a surgeon, a TIME Magazine reporter and an Ivy League student—in truth he is none of these things, but he’s so good at pretending he is that he’s able to convince almost ...

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The 1989 film Chameleon Street was filmed in metro Detroit. Credit: Northern Arts Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection Having twisted a headline-grabbing story of a skillful, self-taught ...

This forgotten 1990 movie, now showing at Brooklyn Academy of Music, introduced a Black confidence man who played with the assumptions of a white world. By J. Hoberman Praised but marginalized, a ...

After winning the Grand Jury Prize for his first (and so far, only) film, Harris expected a more traditional career rise. Thirty years later, he's still feeling the regrets of what came next. When ...

Wendell B. Harris wrote, directed, and stars in Chameleon Street, a sly comedy based loosely on the real-life exploits of conman William Douglas Street, who demonstrates a gift for becoming what ...