Film & Documentary
January 20, 2020
Brooklyn Academy of Music Celebrates MLK Day Through Art, Film, and Music
BAM’s Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a free event series that remembers the momentous civil rights leader and recognizes the contributions of historic and contemporary Black figures.
Valentina Di Liscia
The Jewish Israeli Lawyer Who’s Made a Career of Defending Palestinians
The documentary Advocate, profiling controversial lawyer Lea Tsemel, has become an unlikely Oscar contender.
Dan Schindel
2020 Oscar Nominations Brought Some Nice Surprises and a Lot of Eye-Rolling
Joker, The Irishman, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Parasiteare some of the most decorated films among the nominations.
Dan Schindel
50 Years Later, Watching Jimi Hendrix Onstage (On Film)
I’ve often forgotten Hendrix’s impact on me, but attending a fleeting screening of Gerry Goldstein’s long-unreleased The Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Royal Albert Hall in the titular venue presented a rare opportunity to experience those feelings afresh.
Andrew Northrop
How Bible Salesmen Paved the Way for Capitalism to Devour Evangelicalism
The classic documentary Salesman, which turned 50 this year, presaged our current age of megachurches and Christian influencers.
Madeleine Seidel
The Crowded, Lonely World of Live Streaming
A wave of documentaries from China, including Present.Perfect and People’s Republic of Desire, follow the lives of popular streamers.
Justine Smith
37,000 Items of Black Film Memorabilia Acquired by the Lucas Museum
The collection includes items from silent era “race films,” an independent movement during which Black filmmakers told their own stories and distributed films to theaters serving Black viewers.
Monica Castillo
An Anime Fantasy Combines Myth With Climate Change
Makoto Shinkai’s new feature Weathering with You entreats the world to pay attention to the climate emergency, as constant rainfall is interpreted as punishment from the gods.
Max Covill
Make Your Own Experimental Film Out of GIFs and Philip Glass
Rico Monkeon’s “Gifaanisqatsi” uses the score from the classic documentary Koyaanisqatsi and random GIFs to generate mesmerizing custom montages.
Dan Schindel
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