John Ware Reclaimed is an engaging and insightful film that brings Ware’s legacy to the forefront—where it should have been in the first place.
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Tommy Oliver's incendiary and deeply personal 40 Years a Prisoner chronicles systemic racism, the revolutionary group MOVE, and a family’s search for justice.
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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.
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Keep ReadingJohn Lewis: Good Trouble (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Dawn Porter “I feel luck and blessed that I am serving in our country,” says Congressman John Lewis in Good Trouble. “But there are forces
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Criterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.
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Willie is the story of Willie O'Ree, the man who broke the NHL’s colour barrier. It feels like something we all ought to know already, but the sports icon finally gets his
Keep ReadingToni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (USA, 119 min.) Dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Apparently Toni Morrison makes one heck of a carrot cake. The secret, she says, is a lot of carrots. “Other
Keep ReadingAlways in Season (USA, 88 min.) Dir. Jacqueline Olive Programme: Special Presentations (International Premiere) Director Jacqueline Olive asks if lynching still exists in the USA in her provocative documentary Always in Season, but the film
Keep ReadingAmazing Grace (USA, 87 min.) Directed by Sydney Pollack and “realized” by Alan Elliot I’ve caught myself a few times over the past week calling Amazing Grace an archival film. “It’s great, but as
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