At an advance screening of Selma in Boca Raton this week, there was something in the air that deviated from the normally passive experience of moviegoing. A communal energy hung as thickly as smog in the air-conditioned auditorium. Some of it was hopeful: Audience members clapped along to the protest songs on the movie’s soundtrack, shook their fists when appropriate, and … [Read more...]
Timely and absorbing, ‘Selma’ brings man and movement alive
At an advance screening of Selma in Boca Raton this week, there was something in the air that deviated from the normally passive experience of moviegoing. A communal energy hung as thickly as smog in the air-conditioned auditorium. Some of it was hopeful: Audience members clapped along to the protest songs on the movie’s soundtrack, shook their fists when appropriate, and … [Read more...]
A.I.M.’s ‘Pavement’ timely, powerful art
By Tara Mitton Catao Kyle Abraham took careful aim at gun violence and suppression in his powerful and intimate portrayal of life in the historically black Pittsburgh neighborhoods of East Liberty, Homewood and the Hill District where he grew up. In a short time, Abraham has established himself as an award-winning choreographer (last year, he received a so-called “genius … [Read more...]
Soldiers of ‘Untold War’ bear awful moral burden alone
Most civilians are unaware of the physical and psychic horrors endured by soldiers, according to this timely new book by Nancy Sherman, a professor at Georgetown University. Sherman says up front that The Untold War “is not a political tract for or against a war.” Rather, it is about “the inner battles … the moral weight of war that individual soldiers carry on their shoulders … [Read more...]