film review
‘Nomadland’: Moving on with America’s homeless van dwellers
March 1, 2021In Nomadland, Frances McDormand, the pre-eminent actor of our generation, has sketched a complex, but all too familiar character at the edge of society.
Read more‘Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story’ at PAFF
March 1, 2021I learned a lot from this very enjoyable, well-told 57-minute chronicle narrated by actor Courtney B. Vance that is about a truly admirable, gifted, dignified human being who defied the racism of his times by his...
Read more‘Finding Sally’: A filmic inquiry into the heart of Ethiopia’s revolutionary upheavals
February 25, 2021The absorbing, informative Finding Sally is Tamara Mariam Dawit’s first full-length documentary, but hopefully not her last.
Read more‘Executive Order’: A futuristic ‘final solution’ to the Brazilian ‘race problem’ at PAFF
February 24, 2021This imaginative movie is a highly recommended film from Brazil that personifies PAFF’s motion picture panache and ethos.
Read more‘Mossville: When Great Trees Fall’ exposes environmental and racial terror of capitalism
May 22, 2020An intimate and gut-wrenching film detailing the assault on a town of Black residents at the hands of a South African power company aided by the legal corruption of the U.S. political system.
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