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Bayard Rustin was a genius at organizing mass events, but few Americans know anything about him–and this is just what the makers of the new Netflix film RUSTIN hope to correct. For details of his exciting story, I refer you to my review, found elsewhere on this site. What I want to address here is …
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This documentary is great preparation for the dramatic film Rustin that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Until that dramatic feature film comes out on Nov. 3 in select theaters and then on Netflix Nov. 17, this exciting documentary about Bayard Rustin, often called the Civil Rights Movement’s “Forgotten Man” will whet …
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Although I always look forward to the new films that the next month brings to us, I am especially excited about the two coming in November–JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM and RUSTIN. When I saw the first email announcing Journey, my reaction was, “Why another film of this familiar story? We already have The Nativity Story, a very well-made …
I want to alert you to the new film Rustin, due out on November 3 in theaters and then on November 17, on Netflix. But first, a little background. Bayard Rustin is not as well known in the Civil Rights Pantheon as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, or even …
This article appeared in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY on March 27, 1974. I recently wrote about Henry Fonda quoting from it for “The Best of All in the Family,” which celebrated the 100th episode of the series. This is included in the DVD set of the Fifth Season of All in the Family, on disk 2, …
As many of you know, I occasionally like to revisit a film that I have reviewed. Sometimes this is because of new information about it or its maker, which is the case in regard to Cristobal (Cris) Krusen’s film about the institutionalization of his son Daniel, Let Me Have My Son. …
The March issue of Visual Parables includes the timely article “Films for Women’s Month” that will be helpful for discovering movies that celebrate this month’s national theme. There are 80 films from the 36th category of my “List of Social Justice Films” in the article with the month and year of the issue of VP …
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(The four films reviewed in the April 1997 issue are Secrets & Lies; Marvin’s Room; Sling Blade; and Rosewood.) “It isn’t good for the man to live alone,” the author of the second Genesis creation story has God declare. And so he relates the story of the creation of the woman, the two forming a …
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I know 12th Night means that Christmas is over, but I can’t wait until next year to tell you about a version of Longfellow’s carol on YouTube. You who have read my review of the film about the writing of this glorious carol I Heard the Bells and saw the film will especially enjoy this …
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