The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel is a must-see if only to remind us to avoid the empty messages of hope provided by slick corporate entities.
Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer look to the stars in Fireball, the duo's latest collaboration after Into the Inferno and Encounters at the End of the World.
King and Hoover are long gone now. So are the Sixties. But Pollard’s lucidly intelligent MLK/FBI shows what happened then: a fatal situation in which a Black man confronted the white establishment.
One can’t help but be fascinated by Lee’s DJs and their artistry. While the film remains focused on the struggles that these women have endured, there is plenty of room left to enjoy fairly lengthy samples of their musical accomplishments.
76 Days is a classic cinema verité doc, which effectively depicts what happened at hospitals in Wuhan, China from February to April in the midst of the pandemic. Plunging us directly into the action, we see a nurse screaming in agony.
All In: The Fight for Democracy is a brilliant piece of advocacy cinema. If you aren’t outraged before you see this doc, you certainly will be when it’s finished.
"You don't talk about the things that are uncomfortable and that's a very traditional thing among Chinese families and East Asian families. My films The Apology and Sing Me a Lullaby feed into one another," says Hsiung.
This sombre but reflective verité-style film gives voice to survivors of the Six-Day War, which ravaged the director’s hometown of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ballerinas Kennedy George, 14, and Ava Holloway, 14, pose in front of a monument of Confederate general Robert E. Lee after Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered its removal after widespread civil unrest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Julia Rendleman
Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott discuss The New Corporation: An Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, which follows the first film with a penetrating study that explores capitalism through philanthropy, COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter.