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, intentionally or not, as only great films can do.
The documentary MLK/FBI, from accomplished director/producer/editor Sam Pollard, revisits the final decade in the life of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., ending with his assassination in 1968, a period during which our tax dollars underwrote […]The post Three Insights into America’s Predicament at the recent New York Film Festival: MLK/FBI, City Hall, Nomadland first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
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