ANYONE CAN FLY, ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS TRY, Faith Ringgold, 2007 #blackarthistory

Watch the trailer for Janus Films’ release of the 4K restoration of Pressure, the landmark 1975 picture from Horace Ové. Opening May 10 at BAM Film.

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This is a major film, and the restoration is gorgeous. I'd got used to seeing it one way, and it feels like a whole new film. Retains the grit, but feels richer and more poetic. Don't miss! x.com/letterboxd/sta…

Said it before, will say it again: Wim Wenders' The American Friend (1977), starring Dennis Hopper as a twitchy, thin-skinned, capricious, completely unpredictable Tom Ripley, is pretty much a perfect movie. On Criterion Channel now: criterionchannel.com/the-american-f…

Master Class: Ngozi Onwurah | May 11 at 11:30am

Join African Film Festival, Inc. as veteran independent filmmaker Ngozi Onruwah discusses (in an intimate conversation with Ashley Clark) the craft of utilizing cinema as a tool for unmasking the dynamics of the socioeconomic status quo.

Sun Ra photographed by Ming Smith in New York, 1978.

Donations from the likes of Spike Lee, Paul Mescal and Olivia Colman have been added to a growing list of items being sold off as part the Cinema for Gaza auction, which has so far raised over $113,000. variety.com/2024/film/glob…

Full of admiration for the organizers of the Cinema For Gaza auction. Beautiful stuff. Unbelievable array of contributions to bid on, including my own small contribution: a signed copy of my book on Spike Lee's Bamboozled: uk.givergy.com/cinemaforgaza/…

PERSUIT (EL QUE GANE PIERDE - HE WHO WINS LOOSES), Martin Wong, 1984

Wanted to make sure I gave a shout out to Pratibha Parmar's documentary A Place of Rage (1991), a recently remastered version of which is playing on Criterion Channel. An important film now, and at any time. June Jordan, Angela Davis, a lot of food for thought: criterionchannel.com/a-place-of-rage

STARING #3, Shada Safadi, 2020

We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER.