With the fall chill in the air and the holidays on the horizon, Black Harvest Film Festival is set to return to the

At all of its previous stops—Austin, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York—the Criterion Mobile Closet has attracted throngs of cinephiles hoping to pick their

Documentary is a filmmaking approach inherently designed for remembrance. In fact, it’s the approach that most closely aligns with photography and the desire

Memory is a funny thing. It can form and unwind us, ground and unmoor us. It can also trick us, probably because it’s

After my last dispatch’s uncommon thematic synergy, I’ve come back with two films that, on their face, couldn’t be any more different in

Unlike the rest of the dispatches I’ve written out of Sundance, the selections here are not defined by their competitive category. This one

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A cool and collected Shula (Susan Chardy) drives into the opening scene dressed like Missy Elliott in “The Rain” music video. When she

A modern update to the Greek playwright Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, “Chi-Raq” immediately found controversy using Chicago’s South Side (particularly the ensuing bloody gang wars,

As a silent film director, Micheaux was at his strongest: His literary style (he wrote seven novels in total) imbued his intertitles with