Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘Five Days, Five Nights’: Flight to freedom from fascist Portugal
September 16, 2020Álvaro Cunhal had a little secret. It was a good thing that he did.
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‘Crash Landing on You’: An axis of evolution
September 8, 2020A romantic comedy about North Korea? The country that wants to bomb us back to the stone age?
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‘Epicentro’: Getting centered on Cuba in a new documentary film
August 31, 2020Epicentro is Sundance Award winner and Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper’s vibrant, elegiac postcard from Cuba—its past, present and future.
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‘Building the American Dream’: A Texas wage-theft and heat-stroke nightmare
August 28, 2020Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his state’s recent building boom “The Texas Miracle.” But the workers who have actually done the building often find themselves engaged in a nightmare!
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‘Little Fires Everywhere’: Slow burn uncovers layers of the family archaeology
August 18, 2020But it is hard to argue with a product that through its brilliant acting and writing confronts values and choices of all of its protagonists in such a painful, unblinking sweep.
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New documentary film on Congresswoman Barbara Lee: She speaks for me!
July 13, 2020Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California’s 13th District, representing Oakland and Berkeley, voted against Joint Resolution 23, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, 2001.
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‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’: A fine new documentary about a courageous life
July 6, 2020Elder Lewis told his young grandson that sometimes good trouble would be needed to do what is right.
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‘The Vote’: As if our lives depended on it, then and now
June 11, 2020The Vote, writer-director Michelle Ferrari’s history of American women’s struggle to win the right to participate in elections, is more than an excellent comprehensive history.
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