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‘American Utopia’: Still making sense

January 4, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

Byrne and director Spike Lee have combined to reexamine themes they both have explored individually over the years.

Frederick Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’: Let us now praise democracy

December 15, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Director Frederick Wiseman has gifted us with a movie for our times. City Hall is all about democracy—how it works, who does it, and why it is so vital.

Film, communism, radical politics: A conversation between Boots Riley and Charisse Burden-Stelly

December 1, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Simply calling oneself an “anti-capitalist,” Boots Riley reasons, isn't enough. You've got to stake out a position when it comes to an alternative. For him, that alternative is communism.

Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’

October 29, 2020 By Ed Rampell

The documentary Hopper/Welles, which screened at the 34th annual AFI Fest, is to film history what 1989’s When Harry Met Sally is to romcoms.

Modern-day China through Chinese eyes: reviews from Toronto International Film Festival

October 28, 2020 By Bill Meyer

U.S. relations with China are possibly at an all-time low, although Washington has opposed the government since the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.