Film of the week
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee, 1989
On the hottest day of the year on one Brooklyn block, tensions between neighbors, a pizzeria owner and the police build towards an explosion.
72 films by 54 directors from 23 countries. From the silent era to this year’s festivals.
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The L.A. Rebellion
In the 1970s and 80s, a group of Black students at UCLA set out to make films that had nothing to do with Hollywood. Their work, rooted in everyday Black life, reshaped American independent cinema.
Classics of African Cinema
From Sembène's first features to the FESPACO prizewinners of the 1980s and 90s: the films that built a cinema of independence.
