Another green world: with its pop imagery, sonic dissonance, and vision of life after Armageddon, Marco Ferreri’s 1969 dystopian fable brings to mind a film by George A. Romero remade by Jean-Luc Godard
Smoke gets in your eyes: Robert Altman’s jazz-infused noir finds the late legend Harry Belafonte in a role that slyly inverts his public persona as a committed and compassionate activist
Straight, no chaser: Alain Gomis’s artful remix of a 1969 French TV interview with Thelonious Monk dissects the casual racism suffered by the musical genius
Cold hearted: Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an astute examination of the eternal failure of colonial projects when self-absorbed outsiders are tasked with getting to know the world beyond themselves
Face to face: Martine Sym’s firecracker feature debut, in theaters now, abounds in bold text, bolder colors, and wry humor to explore the construction of Black feminine identity