films
Progressive cinema clips: Cinetopia, Robeson film, “Chiraq”
June 4, 2015Detroit area film lovers are being treated to a new version of the Cinetopia Film Festival, now in its fourth year and growing rapidly.
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A would-be Gorbachev in the People’s Republic: “The Chinese Mayor”
June 4, 2015This film is an insider's look at Geng Yanbo, the reform-minded mayor of Datong, one of the People's Republic of China's most polluted cities.
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The cost of fame: “The Cult of JT Leroy”
June 3, 2015The film shows how nonfiction becomes novelized, with dramatization and confabulation fobbed off as "news" and "truth."
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Ray’s eye: The magnificent Apu Trilogy rides again
June 2, 2015Before there was Bollywood or "The Mindy Project" there was Satyajit Ray, India's movie maestro.
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Controversial Aloha co-stars Hawaiian independence leader
June 1, 2015A lynch mob is attacking writer/director Cameron Crowe's new movie "Aloha," which opened May 29.
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