Equating Michael’s sight-seeing itinerary to “a Jewish princess on her birthright tour,” Tomer begins showing Michael the city
June 29, 2021
Jean-Pierre Melville's thieves and crooks and nowhere men are all resigned to their dooms, and never see any reason to get upset about it
June 25, 2021
We stand numbly by as the twitchy, grinning psycho stalks the family
April 5, 2021
Aware of it or not, global film culture is finally becoming authentically global
April 1, 2021
“Ostensibly about a Gullah family whose younger generation are making plans to leave their ancestral islands for mainland U.S.A. at the crest of the 20th century, 'Daughters of the Dust' is also an interrogation of Black America's cleft soul, split between the quest for modernity and a hunger for the replenishment of roots.”
Originally published June 25, 1991
“Just as Miami remade itself to better resemble its image in Miami Vice, L.A. may rise eventually to Heat's desolate, sandblasted impersonality.”
Originally published December 26, 1995
“Verta maintains that the Gullah, who originally spoke a language they called Ngulla, were from Angola and that in prehistory — you know, when the continents were all attached — what is now South Carolina was joined to what is now Angola”
Originally published April 12, 1988
“People who don't know any better think Gullah people talk funny. Those in the know realize that Gullah is a bona fide dialect and are confident in the scholarly thesis that 'Gullah' is a contraction of 'Angola.'”
Originally published April 12, 1988
“The artiness of Coppola’s aesthetic ultimately becomes an ethic as Pacino, in somber profile, emerges more victim than villain, more a melancholy Dane than a bloody Macbeth.”
Originally published December 23, 1974
“Coppola and copilot Mario Puzo blast off for some cosmic Shakespearean netherworld of tearful soliloquies and dynastic tragedy,”
Originally published December 25, 1990