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For many during this marquee stop in the film awards season, both the red carpet outside and the winner’s stage inside were public venues to make clear their vital support of those risking careers and livelihoods to end harrassment and abuse in the workplace.
In The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro crafts a visually fascinating, generously spirited fable of other-worldly love, where the life of a cleaner in a high-security government laboratory changes in shape — and meaning — when she discovers the living subject of a classified experiment.
The Academy Awards has for some time wished to be recognized as what they have difficulty recognizing: a selection of the year’s best and most wide-ranging talent in the craft, from across the world as well as its cultures. This year’s selection just might represent a breakthrough, snafu and all.
In Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, PBS presents what is, surprisingly, the first feature documentary on the life and writings of the poet, singer, dancer, memoirist, activist. It is a vital, visual archive, including interview footage, rare photographs, and truly moving video.
A United Kingdom, directed by Amma Asante and starring David Oyelowo, has opened in theaters in the United States. The film is based on the true-life, then controversial romance between Botswana king Sir Seretse Khama and his English wife, Ruth Williams Khama.
I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary film on James Baldwin, as envisioned by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, has opened in the United States to considerable acclaim.
