Film: Home Truths, Malcolm Revisited, BTS on Tour, and the Lives of Earths Smallest Animals

A few cool film events are underway, from an online screening series about housing rights to the prem

Oct 2, 2020 • View in browser

A few cool film events are underway, from an online screening series about housing rights to the premiere of a new work by the co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Beyond that, we have reviews of films about K-pop megastars BTS, an anti-immigrant ballot measure in California, the world of tiny animals, and more. Happy streaming! – Dan Schindel, Associate Editor for Documentary

Online Screenings

Anthology Film Archives has put together a tremendous lineup of films about housing rights and collective solidarity for its online screening series Home Truths. You have the whole month to check out these titles!This Friday and Saturday, MOCA in Los Angeles will be hosting free online screenings of Malcolm Revisited, a video work curated by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors to kick off the movement’s Get Out the Vote campaign. Elisa Wouk Almino has the scoop.

What Does 'Home' Mean During the COVID Pandemic? Home Truths, a new online screening series from Anthology Film Archives, acts as a resource for community information and solidarity. Dan Schindel

Patrisse Cullors Revisits a Malcolm X Speech to Help Get Out the Vote Malcolm Revisited screens for free on October 2 and 3. Elisa Wouk Almino

Latest Film Reviews

Rare Film Footage of Artist Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1930s Paris Tanner avoided the cameras for much of his life, but a new documentary on Black American creatives who moved to France finds candid home movie footage of him. Karen Chernick

The Public and Private Lives of BTS Blur on Tour Break the Silence, the new concert film about the incredibly popular K-pop band, demonstrates the vulnerability that makes them so beloved by fans. Monica Uszerowicz

The Creative Approach One Filmmaker Is Taking to Depict the Hong Kong Protests Experimental director Simon Liu’s shorts seek “a new lexicon of approaches” to the city. Matt Turner

The Anti-Immigrant Ballot Measure That Galvanized California's Latinx Community 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote tells the story of Proposition 187, the 1994 attempt to block undocumented people from public services, and how it was ultimately defeated. Dan Schindel

Films in Brief

Push is a documentary about the global housing crisis. It’s a bracing but necessary look at the financialization of what should be a human right.The fourth season of the television adaptation of Fargorecently began. It’s one of the best shows currently on the air, a darkly funny and endlessly quirky crime saga.The latest big nature docuseries isn’t actually big at all. Tiny World focuses on the teeniest denizens of our planet, and is quite delightful for it.

Historical Engineering DisastersWe’ve previously written about Well There’s Your Problem, a “podcast with slides” about historical engineering disasters. The latest episode is a gargantuan look at the underlying structural problems with the old World Trade Center, which contributed to the towers’ collapse on September 11th. It’s supremely mordant and also highly informative.

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 41: Nine Eleven (just the WTC towers)

Let this video clean your soul, just as the cows clean the cat:

JB @ghostofjohnbro tl cleanse https://t.co/MhNOGLRH2k 9:49 AM - 28 Sep 2020

Until we can see you at the movies again, stay safe!

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