ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM with David & Liani Greaves joining for Q&A
CLARISSA starring Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, & Ayo Edebiri
CHOCOLATE BABIES, with dir. Stephen Winter joining
Screenings including Cannes winners BEN’IMANA and CONGO BOY
& more!
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be in spaces with people who seem entirely unmoved by the avalanche of cruelty and brutality we’re currently witnessing in the world.
Feels like the arguments I’m seeing right now are evidence that a bulk of young people get their understanding of social movements from random accounts on TikTok. And that seems like a terrible way to understand complex social and intellectual struggles.
Americans love the theater of civility. Doesn’t matter how odious someone’s beliefs are or how they’ve used their power to make people’s lives worse / deny their dignity and rights, as long as they shake hands and send happy birthday texts, they’re seen as a model professional.
Hollywood making movies about a genocide that’s still happening is their way of absolving themselves. They profit, pat themselves on the back, and package it as history, while 100+ Palestinians are starved and bombed daily. Their responsibility is to stop it now.
On Labor Day, we remember A. Philip Randolph. In 1925, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black-led union securing better wages and working conditions for many Black workers. Later, he helped organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
A Spike Lee take on a Kurosawa film released by A24 should warrant such high anticipation but is given the barest of minimums of promotions and it's actively pissing me off. If that's just SPIKE LEE imagine how WORSE it is for many other Black filmmakers right now. Infuriating.
what is there even to say about “alligator alcatraz,” “big beautiful bill,” other cutesy appellations for gleeful cruelty beyond the obvious: spiritually repugnant, somehow made even more obscene by how fucking tacky it all is
❤️ Remembering Souleymane Cissé (1940-2025), one of cinema's greats known for catapulting African film to the world stage with his feature YEELEN, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 1987 and became the first African movie to be awarded at the festival.