Detroit, stand up! "Medicine for Melancholy" is now playing in your area through Feburary 22. It's at the Detroit Film Theater at Detroit Institute of Arts 5200 Woodward AvenueDetroit, MI313 833 7900dia.org
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"Medicine for Melancholy" and the dynamism of Blackness
Another side of being black and indie. Barry Jenkins' award-winning debut film is exciting, accomplished and provocative. Ostensibly about two African-American twenty-somethings who get to know each other after a one-night stand, Medicine for Melancholy comes at race, class and gentrification from some refreshingly odd angles. The film takes place in San Francisco. The city [...]
Opening tonight: "Medicine for Melancholy"
IFC Films is starting the city-by-city rollout of Barry Jenkins' film tonight in NYC. It's kind of a "Before Sunrise" with two black hipsters in San Francisco. You can read reviews in the Village Voice or The NY Times, but here's what's got me excited to see this. In his review of the film, Voice [...]
Bad Brains documentary near completion
Bad Brains_teaser I've already Twittered about this, but in case you haven't seen it, here goes. Metalunderground.com reported the following: BAD BRAINS has announced that it is in the final stages of production for its acclaimed documentary. No release date has been set yet. The yet-untitled film was directed by Mandy Stein and Ben Logan [...]
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