Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, The Piano Lesson, adapts August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play into a deeply evocative film that reverberates with the weight of family legacy, grief, and resilience. Set against the backdrop of 1930s Pittsburgh, the film cleverly captures the essence of a Black family’s struggle over an heirloom piano, whose carved surfaces tell the […]
From Sundance, Grand Jury-prize-winning Nigerian-American film director Chinonye Chukwu (“Clemency”) comes “TILL,” an examination of the experiences of Emmet Till’s mother in the aftermath of her son’s death by lynching in 1955. Starring Danielle Deadwyler (“Station Eleven,” “The Harder They Fall”) as Mamie Till-Mobley and Jalyn Hall (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) as Emmett Till,
This is a western where you might feel “wrung dry” by the end. It’s a bit of a spoof on westerns in general, but it is also serious in demonstrating that black faces were ubiquitous throughout the post Civil War west, even among the cowboys. The subject of the movie, Nat Love, was actually a cowboy sometime