New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Chatham 14
Spike Lee drinks Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Guerrillas, gamma people, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Now Playing: A Screaming Man
Black World Cinema presents Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Chadian drama A Screaming Man.
Trial of the Arsonist Slave
Tetchena Bellange’s documentary “Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave,” examines the controversial 1734 case of a woman accused of setting the fire that burned much of Montreal. It screens Thursday 3/3 in the Black World Cinema Series.
The Upright Man
Robin Shuffield’s 2006 documentary “Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man,” about the Marxist leader of Burkina Faso, and Djibril Diop Mambety’s Senegalese dramatic short “The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun” screen Thursday 5/6 in the Black World Cinema series.
Still Bill
“Still Bill,” a documentary portrait of soul singer Bill Withers, screens Thursday 12/3 at Chatham 14.
I Bring What I Love
Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love” a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.
Soul Power
“Soul Power,” the documentary about the all-star Zaire 74 concert starring James Brown, screens Thursday 10/1 at Chatham 14.
Blood money
A wronged woman returns to her village for revenge in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Senegalese satire of colonialism “Hyenas,” screening tonight in the Black World Cinema series at Chatham 14.