Suzannah Herbert’s "Natchez" deservedly won the best documentary award at last week's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a fun and trenchant but never preachy analysis of how racism still exists in the American South.
Natchez, Mississippi was once a big cotton town but boll weevils in the 1930's destroyed the crops. It then turned into a tourist destination, offering tours of dozens of well-preserved Antebellum houses....
Even with access to both the theater press screenings and Tribeca at Home app (for remote access), it was all I could do to catch two dozen of the films. (The app wasn't working for many users for several days and it would have been nice if they could have extended the days it was available for critics.) Here are my notes of my...
"Invention," an indie film combining real footage and fictional narrative to create a unique, mysterious and lightly comical meta-portrait of a woman's grief over...
"Soundtrack for a Coup D'etat" is a fascinating and highly entertaining study of the unexpected relationship between some famous Jazz musicians and the C.I.A.-backed...
