Tag: MLK/FBI
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‘The League’ Review: The Negro Leagues Finally Get Their Due in Moving Baseball Documentary
There’s no shortage of great movies about baseball, but there is a severe lack of films about the Negro leagues. The fifth inning of Ken Burns’ expansive “Baseball” covers them with admirable reverence, but feature-length projects — whether narrative or documentary — are vanishingly rare. “The League” is therefore something close to required viewing for…
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Judas and the Black Messiah review – electric Black Panthers drama
The true story of assassinated activist Fred Hampton is brought to vibrant life with never-better performances from Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith StanfieldThe sad, shifty and inglorious business of government informants working inside radical protest groups is something that usually takes years to come out – if at all – because nobody wants to talk about…
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‘Crip Camp’ Wins Best Feature at IDA Documentary Awards – Full Winner’s List
The International Documentary Association has announced the winners of the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards, with “Crip Camp” taking home the top prize.The ceremony was hosted by actor Willie Garson, with musical entertainment from Ruby Ibarra, who performed the theme from “A Thousand Cuts.”Directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, “Crip Camp” received the best…
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‘It took its toll’: the terrible legacy of Martin Luther King’s fight with the FBI
In his new film MLK/FBI, Sam Pollard lays bare the injustices the FBI heaped on the civil rights leader, but paints a picture of a complex man dealing with his personal life and its baggage alongside his political beliefsAs a child in 1960s east Harlem, documentary film-maker Sam Pollard was “profoundly touched” by two events.…
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Cinetic closes UK, Scandinavia, Benelux sales on ‘MLK/FBI’ ahead of IDFA premiere
Doc screens in Masters section and is in contention for best creative use of archive award.Cinetic has closed key territory sales in the UK, Scandinavia, Benelux, and Poland on Sam Pollard’s documentary MLK/FBI ahead of its European premiere at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).Dogwoof has acquired the film for the UK, NonStop for Scandinavia, Cherry…
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‘MLK/FBI’ Trailer: How The FBI Tried To Destroy The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr.
From 1955 until his death, the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover targeted civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in an increasingly invasive surveillance program meant to destabilize the man and the movement. This fact is well documented, but filmmaker Sam Pollard‘s new documentary “MLK/FBI,” pulls back the curtain on the story in a way…
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Three Insights into America’s Predicament at the recent New York Film Festival: MLK/FBI, City Hall, Nomadland
The New York Film Festival concluded several weeks ago; the much-anticipated Presidential debates came and went. Today we face the outcome of an existential election, and I find myself still thinking about three exceptional films at NYFF 58, two documentaries and one drama, that throw certain features of our national political crisis into sharp relief,…