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Community activist Will Calloway speaks to the press on January 18th, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois, following the sentencing hearing for former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan…

Lois Weber’s films have been long unknown, mostly lost; some of the few surviving ones only recently became available and are getting the attention that they deserve. But, a century ago, between 1908 and 1921, she was making hundreds of…

The documentary filmmaker Khalik Allah, whose new feature, “Black Mother,” opens on Friday, is one of the most original cinematographers of the time. The modern cinema is a photographic cinema, with its roots in the hands-on creation of…

These are our top picks for the weekend of March 8th-10th. For more event listings and reviews, check out Goings On About Town.Photograph Courtesy Siah Armajani / Rossi & RossiArtThe Iranian-American sculptor, Conceptualist, and…

“An Elephant Sitting Still,” the 2017 film by the Chinese director Hu Bo that’s being released this Friday, is one of the greatest recent films; its mighty ambition and mighty power are suggested by its unusual length (it runs nearly…

Similar to “Alita: Battle Angel” and “Roma,” “Greta” is a movie that elides the distinctive and significant psychology of its protagonist in the interest of shaping the plot. All three movies bring the flair and flash of skillful…

As Hollywood's awards season wraps up with the Oscars, it's easy to believe that Hollywood glamour and military might are like oil and water: Two very separate worlds that only intersect on the screen.While Hollywood might love taking…

The modern cinema of the sixties and beyond is a photographic cinema, recalling the highly inflected images of silent movies in order to affirm the personal touch, the omnipresence of the filmmaker as more than an unobtrusive transmitter…

“Bayou,” a 1957 ultra-low-budget and independently produced drama filmed on location, in waterfront Cajun country, in Louisiana, was reissued in 1961, with some added footage, as a sensational exploitation film called “Poor White Trash.”…