[ad_1] This upcoming Friday, when two simultaneous New York revivals of Med Hondo’s films get under way, many viewers are going to find their cinematic map expanding. Film Forum will be screening a new restoration of Hondo’s large-scale, big-budget 1979 musical “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty,” while Anthology Film Archives presents a retrospective… Continue reading Med Hondo’s Vital Political Cinema Comes to New York
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Like a Political X-Ray, “Our Body” Exposes the Intrusions of Law in Medicine
[ad_1] The veteran French filmmaker Claire Simon’s new documentary, “Our Body,” explores the lives of patients and doctors in a women’s hospital in Paris. Nearly three hours long, it is a work of vast emotional scope, and Simon, who worked as a film editor in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, endows it with a grand conceptual… Continue reading Like a Political X-Ray, “Our Body” Exposes the Intrusions of Law in Medicine