All You Need is Love…
Courtney Gardner follows Fiona Dawson’s work on her new episodic series, Now With Fiona, an talks with Dawson about the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and the fight for transgender minors in Arkansas.
Reviews
An Extraordinary Trancestor
Courtney Gardner reviews the new documentary on Billy Tipton by Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-Yee. They review the film with an eye towards how Tipton’s evolution into a trans masculine role model has changed his position in popular culture.
Dale Bell’s “Woodstock”
Dale Bell’s Woodstock (Rare Bird Books, 2019) is a day-by-day, event-by-event diary by Bell, the associate producer, and 22 other…
Venus Personified
Courtney Gardner reviews Ty Hodges’ new film, Venus as a Boy. The film challenges our assumed stereotypes as it follows a small groups of friends as they navigate adulthood in Los Angeles.
20th Annual Tribeca Festival June 9-20
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw reviews the 2021Tribeca Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary. He spotlights the Warner Bros. musical In the Heights and Michèle Stephenson’s Stateless, two movies tied to the Dominican Republic in two very different ways. He also reviews Coded, Ryan White’s short documentary about J. C. Leyendecker, and The Queen of Basketball, Ben Proudfoot’s documentary on basketball pioneer, Lusia Harris-Stewart.
Questlove debuts Harlem’s Summer of Soul
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw reviews Summer of Soul, a documentary on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that brought together some of the best performers of Jazz, Soul, Gospel, and Funk.
The Evolutionary Turning Point
Film critic Courtney Garnder takes a look at Mari Walker’s feature debut, See You Then and all the messy parts of old relationships that bubble to the surface when people reunite.
New Directors/New Films, April 28 – May 8
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw picks three new films and one short that reflects a half century of the New Directors/New Films festival from MOMA and Films at Lincoln Center.
The Gravitational Pull of Questioning: “In France Michelle is a Man’s Name”
At the 2020 Outfest Film Festival, In France Michelle is a Man’s Name premiered and took home the Grand Jury…