Robert Daniels

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Articles

How Exhibiting Forgiveness Explores the Limits of Religion and Easy Absolution

Oct 18, 2024 | time.com | Robert Daniels

By Robert DanielsOctober 18, 2024 12:03 PM EDTIn 2016, Titus Kaphar made The Jerome Project, a short documentary in which he confronted how his father’s abuse and drug use harmed his childhood. But upon completing it, he discovered that he had only scratched the surface. “When I finished the project, what was clear to me is that it did a good job of telling us where we were, but not how we got there,” says Kaphar. So he turned to fiction.
Kneecap - Sydney Film Festival

May 7, 2024 | sff.org.au | Leslie Felperin |Carlos Aguilar |Robert Daniels

Rich Peppiatt’s raucous, rude and riotously entertaining comedy stars three real-life Belfast rappers as themselves – and Michael Fassbender. Audience Award, Sundance NEXT strand. Peppiatt’s powerfully political comedy-drama about the survival of the Irish language is something of a miracle movie. Where else in the world could the legacy of trauma produce such hilarity and crowd-pleasing entertainment?
The Book of Clarence movie review (2024)

Jan 10, 2024 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels
Occupied City movie review & film summary (2023)

Dec 22, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels

Every film is a collection of moving images, but few are as moving as the sights that compose "Occupied City." Filmed during the outset of the pandemic, when, like many cities around the globe, Amsterdam turned to facemasks, social distancing, and quarantines to stem the virus' tide, director Steve McQueen recorded the difficult remnants and former sites from the Nazi occupation of the city during World War II.
Memory movie review & film summary (2023)

Dec 22, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels
Origin movie review & film summary (2023)

Dec 8, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels
Leave the World Behind movie review (2023)

Dec 5, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels
Saltburn and Subverting the Passing Narrative

Dec 4, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels

In Wendell B. Harris Jr's "Chameleon Street," for instance, Douglass Street is a Black man who graduates from simple cons to complex impersonations. Though his masquerading isn't a passing between races, from Black to white, it does grapple with the anxiety that arises through authentically moving through spheres: Street's most audacious facade occurs when he poses as a doctor from Harvard.
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Highlights: John Singleton, Tyler Perry, and A Vibrant Artistic Community

Nov 17, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels

Festivals & Awards It's been a year since the festival's co-founder, the dearly missed Sergio Mims passed away. Celebrating its 29th iteration, the first program directly untouched by Mims, the festival conjured a theme that in its meaning implicitly connects the gathering to its enduring past while looking toward a necessary future. Lead Curator Jada-Amina and Coordinator Nick Leffel rang the opening to their harvest under the banner of "Revolutionary Visions." It's an alluring phrase.
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, Black Barbie: A Documentary, We Were Meant To, Burnt Milk

Nov 13, 2023 | rogerebert.com | Robert Daniels

Festivals & Awards Another film interested in Black pop culture's seismic moments, is writer-director Lagueria Davis' " Black Barbie: A Documentary"-a ruminative interrogative of the unreachable beauty standards wrought by a singular doll. It's a film about why white womanhood is perpetually seen as the paradigm of feminism; it's about the need to be seen and the limitations of representation.