Ousmane Sembene

Black Girl

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Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

Katyn's True Lies

Revisiting the Katyn cover-up, Poland's great chronicler gets personal, but not personal enough

New York African Film Festival

Revisiting the Katyn cover-up, Poland's great chronicler gets personal, but not personal enough

Senegal's Son

For Ousmane Sembène, an icon of African cinema, the personal was always political

'Ten Canoes'

For Ousmane Sembène, an icon of African cinema, the personal was always political

Rack Focus

For Ousmane Sembène, an icon of African cinema, the personal was always political

Rack Focus

For Ousmane Sembène, an icon of African cinema, the personal was always political

Safety First

Stocked with old favorites, a conservative Cannes proves Newton's Third Law of Motion

The Day I Became a Martyr: Islam Protest Brings Fatal Fatwa

Stocked with old favorites, a conservative Cannes proves Newton's Third Law of Motion

The African King

An octogenarian Senegalese director takes on patriarchal authority, one village at a time

Labors of Love

They want to defy the logic of all sex laws: Auteurs tackle abortion and female circumcision

Autumn Sonata

Young guns Jaoui and Jia mingle with old masters Bergman, Rohmer, and Godard at NYFF

Screen Siege

Cinematic campaigning: This fall, filmmakers assault the status quo at a theater near you

All That Heaven Allows

Superior Education, feel-good agitprop, a hell-raising Moore dot the Cannes firmament

The Natives Are Dressless

Paul Theroux Goes Native

Planet Rock

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Mother Africa's New Breed

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Darkness Visible

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

The Wages of Original Sin

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Harlem Renaissance

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Born Criminals

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Sembène’s Universal Language

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Sound Investitures

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

I Lost It at the Movies

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

Desert Roses

African Film Comes of Age

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Traveling Miles

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Soaps, Social Schemas, Softcore Sex

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Tried and True

Hardest Movie Quiz Answers Revealed

Borough Perk

Daniel Talbot Is Brooklyn Bound

Wheels of History

Daniel Talbot Is Brooklyn Bound