When Julia Child’s “The French Chef” premiered on the Boston public television network in 1963, celebrity chefs were unheard of,… Read More
Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching of the Fists is set in North Ossetia, in the Russian Caucasus, the site of the horrific… Read More
Passing, Rebecca Hall’s debut film as a writer-director, is a studied adaptation of Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen’s eponymous 1929 novel set… Read More
Eléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam’s Prism may spark an entirely new conversation about racial bias in filmmaking, namely the “problem”… Read More
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AwardsWatch spoke with director Liesl Tommy earlier this week via Zoom, a lover of Black people, a longstanding Aretha Franklin… Read More
Liesl Tommy’s Respect opens in Detroit, in the home where Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) lived for much of her childhood. It is 1952,… Read More
Jamila Wignot’s Ailey celebrates its subject, the late modern dance iconoclast Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), in his own words and through… Read More
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