Film
The Truth is simply a delightful film all around.
Becoming the Song charts Denise Ho’s political awakening, her transformation from Cantopop icon to human rights activist amidst the backdrop of an increasingly turbulent Hong Kong.
Babyteeth is a lovely film, an unusually mature coming-of-age story that juggles restraint and abandon with astonishing ease.
Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus.
Director Agnieszka Holland deftly presents a vision of genocide that is hard-hitting but never manipulative: the horror pervades the monochrome beauty of snow, skeletal trees, and pale, sunken faces.
Working Man does an excellent job dramatizing the poverty and desperation of people who live paycheck to paycheck.
The delicious cheekiness of the film is to present a story about two gay immigrants as a swooning romantic epic spanning years.
There is a gemlike quality to this film: an emotional, earthbound portrayal of the lived experience of a black woman — fighting to make ends meet, retaining her integrity despite repeated indignities.
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, one that I plan to view again and again.
Proud excels when it makes the political personal, utilizing its characters as affecting markers for changing minds and hearts.
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