Film & Documentary

August 6, 2021 • View in browser

Rest in Power, Menelik Shabazz. Black British Cinema Is All the Better in Your Wake.

The Barbadian-born filmmaker, producer, and writer passed away in June, after decades of advocating for Afro-diasporic film culture. | Yasmina Price

Looking Back at the Misbegotten Woodstock ’99 Music Festival

The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era. | Nadine Smith

A 700-Year-Old Poem Becomes an Existential Modern Fantasy Film

The Green Knight adapts a Middle English chivalric romance of King Arthur’s court as a somber, allegorical adventure. | Madeleine Seidel

A Mystical Masseuse Sends a Gated Community Into Upheaval

Director Malgorzata Szumowska uses fantasy to satirize the lives of the affluent in Poland’s official Oscar submission. | Ela Bittencourt

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

Cydnii Wilde Harris brings to light a collection of crucial reports and interviews from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, who, through their collaborative initiative with the Library of Congress, have preserved a wealth of media spotlighting Black authors, journalists, musicians, and politicians.

An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online

From a report on sundown towns to interviews with Angela Davis and Emmett Till’s mother, here are highlights from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. | Cydnii Wilde Harris