Andrew Schenker

GO  TEZA Spanning two decades of his nation's fraught history and invoking the legacy of at least three more, Haile Gerima's Teza confronts the paradoxical position of a certain generation of Ethiopian intellectual, which includes both the director and his lead character. Arriving back at his native village in 1990,......

WHO IS HARRY NILSSON? With Who Is Harry Nilsson? the "Everybody's Talkin'" singer and John Lennon's self-described favorite "group" gets the full-on rock-doc treatment normally accorded to household gods like the Doors and Lennon himself. John Scheinfeld's film traces a familiar trajectory, moving from its subject's humble beginnings through commercial......

After the recent successes of Killer of Sheep and The Exiles, the good folks at Milestone Films keep the rediscovery bonanza rolling, restoring and releasing another lost film, Margot Benacerraf’s 1959 Cannes Prize winner, Araya, for its inaugural stateside run. And while they haven’t hit the masterpiece trifecta, Araya is......