Blue Is The Warmest Color
The coming-of-age narrative tends to come alive for audiences in its reflection and recollection for us of situations and memories …
Category Archives: CityBeat Archives
Kill Your Darlings
As literary advice, the notion that beleaguered writers must be willing to “kill your darlings” in order to find the …
CAC Screens a Complex Documentary of Murderous Performance Art
Re-enactments dominate the world of reality television. There is nothing new in the narrative framework of recreating scenes of true …
About Time
Love is in the air again in the latest film from writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually), but this time he’s …
All Is Lost
The Cornel West Reader, as regular readers know, serves as a touchstone for me. The good professor acknowledges being driven, …
Steve McQueen Creates a Complex Human Portrait of Beautiful Brutality
From the first moment I walked out of the theater during a private press screening of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years …
The Alternative Spotlight: Black Cinema Rising
Independent black cinema might finally be coming into its own and it’s worth focusing strictly on this moment. As a …
Saudi Arabian Film Shatters the Glass Ceiling
Sometimes a story, told simply and effectively, changes the way we as an audience see another part of the world, …
Inequality For All
As Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich was the lone voice raging against the madness of the economic …
The ‘Captain’ of This Ship
There’s a desire to slip inside the news stories that dominate our attention, to experience (and not just vicariously) the …
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