Daily Archives: August 12, 2020

Netflixable? Siblings try to keep the secret of “Black Snow (Nieve Negra)”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Roger Moore

I love the way director Martín Hodara folds his flashbacks, seamlessly, into the fictive present in “Black Snow.” “Nieve Negra,” as it is titled in Spanish, is another polished, stark thriller from Argentina, and the feature directing debut from this … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Roger Moore

Say this for “Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies.” It’s thorough, almost academic textbook/video-accompanying-a-film-studies-class broad in its scope. The documentary’s two hours and nine minutes take us from the first naked moving images of the human body to … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Another murder, an earlier summer of protests — “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Roger Moore

It seems like ancient history, now. In a lot a ways, it is. There was a summer roiled by a murder of a black man, one that laid bare the open wound of American violence and racism long before this … Continue reading →

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