Interview by Greg Carlson Emmy award-winning filmmaker Chris Brown has directed, produced, and/or edited features and documentaries including “Fuego,” “Sylvie of the Sunshine State,” “Songs of Wood & Steel,” “Cries of Our Ancestors,” “Let Them Eat Dirt,” “The Providers,” and “A Thousand Mothers.” Brown’s “The Other Kids” won multiple awards internationally and was hailed as […]
All posts for the month December, 2022
Collecting Movies With Chris Brown
Posted by GBC on December 25, 2022
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Babylon
Movie review by Greg Carlson How many “Babylon” reviews and essays will at some point use the words orgiastic and overlong to describe Damien Chazelle’s raucous Hollywood fable? To date, the filmmaker remains the youngest winner of the Oscar for Best Director, which he received for “La La Land” during a ceremony enshrined in Academy […]
Posted by GBC on December 16, 2022
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Movie review by Greg Carlson Veteran critic Elvis Mitchell’s excellent documentary/essay “Is That Black Enough for You?!?” gazes deeply and lovingly at the rich and varied historical contributions of African American film artists, focusing especially on the vibrant and tumultuous 1970s. Extending beyond Blaxploitation to consider the complete cinematic spectrum from independent productions to the […]
Posted by GBC on December 12, 2022
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White Noise
Movie review by Greg Carlson Noah Baumbach’s ambitious, hysterical adaptation of Don DeLillo’s famously “unfilmable” modern classic “White Noise” is – given the bona fides of the source material – certain to divide opinion. For the supporters, the director’s cinephilia sparks and shimmers from one giddy moment to the next. Nobody will overlook the homage […]
Posted by GBC on December 5, 2022
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