The event, spearheaded by local film curators Maggie Hennefeld, left, and Michelle Baroody, is a series of 13 titles from four continents selected from the premier repertory festival hosted in Bologna ...

How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.

Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...

If you saw the most recent incarnation of “Candyman” from director Nia DaCosta — all of it shot in Chicago, some of which takes place amid the remaining Cabrini row houses — you might be compelled to ...

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...

The average consumer subscribes to 4.5 streaming services, many of which offer content that feels largely indistinguishable from one another. When Netflix disrupted film and television in the late ...

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Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...

A new student group out of the Harvard Film Archive, or HFA, has recently begun organizing free weekly film screenings for Harvard students. While the HFA has been a fixture at Harvard College since ...

Rare documentaries, newsreels, commercials and more are now available for viewing with English subtitles. TEL AVIV (JTA) – For years, only those with special permission could visit the ...