The acclaimed director’s daughter, a filmmaker herself, has been peppering her feed with videos of her father, showing a rarely seen side of him.
Category: Movies
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A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age
The British director Horace Ové struggled to get his 1975 film, “Pressure,” made and released. Now, weeks after his death, a new restoration is celebrated in New York and London.
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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Review: Creepypizza
This adaptation of a video game franchise is more interested in unpacking childhood trauma than packing in jump scares.
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‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas
Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past, with Paul Giamatti playing a curmudgeonly instructor at a 1970s boarding school, is crackling with pungent life.
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8 Black Action Movies to Watch If You Love Richard Roundtree in ‘Shaft’
“Shaft,” starring Richard Roundtree, created a template for Black action protagonists onscreen.
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‘Priscilla’ Review: All Shook Up
Sofia Coppola re-examines Elvis Presley from the perspective of the woman he married.
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‘Pain Hustlers’ Review: Seeking Dr. Feelgood
In David Yates’s film, Emily Blunt plays a single mother who takes a job at a pharmaceutical start-up with questionable sales methods.
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‘Four Daughters’ Review: The Role Family Plays
This documentary from Kaouther Ben Hania restages pivotal moments from a family’s life.
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‘Inspector Sun’ Review: A Web of Cinema Classics
The newly released English version of this Spanish children’s film about an arachnid gumshoe is a comic mystery indebted to Agatha Christie and swashbuckling epics.
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Jonathan Majors’s Accuser Is Arrested but Won’t Face Prosecution
Grace Jabbari, who accused the actor of assaulting her in a car, was herself arrested on a countercomplaint.
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‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’: A Hit That Initially Unnerved Disney
The filmmakers look back on its 30th anniversary and recall how uncomfortable it made executives. They didn’t expect the celebrations around it today.
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Richard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
While indelibly tied to the role that made him famous in 1971, he remained active for more than four decades afterward.