Bad Axe
By Ted Metrakas November 17, 2022
Do we need another documentary covering the pandemic and the George Floyd protests? Yes, and it’s one of the most surprising films of the year.
Do we need another documentary covering the pandemic and the George Floyd protests? Yes, and it’s one of the most surprising films of the year.
Luca Guadagnino profiles footwear designer Salvatore Ferragamo’s admirable achievements in this fawning yet dry tribute.
A breathless reminiscence and recollection of the Brooklyn music scene in the early aughts.
Why did the surge of Black-centered films from the late 1960s through the 1970s fade away?
Sometimes it’s enough for a film to be an unapologetic piece of advocacy journalism, as is the case with Patricia E. Gillespie’s absolutely heartbreaking documentary.
A nature documentary that finds beauty within the debris of New Delhi as two brothers rescue injured black kites.
This brief, fascinating documentary about incarcerated men who have been all but forgotten by the rest of the world, has itself been lost since 1987.
First, and most simply, this documentary retells the 2002 hijacking of state-owned TV channels in Changchun, China, through animation.
Prolific photographer Ernest Withers chronicled the civil rights movement. He was also a longtime FBI informant.