Ernest Hardy

MEN WITH GUNS Written and directed by JOHN SAYLES Produced by R. PAUL MILLER and MAGGIE RENZI Starring FEDERICO LUPPI DAMIÁN DELGADO DAN RIVERA GONZÁLEZ and DAMIÁN ALCÁZAR Released by Sony Pictures Classics At Laemmle's Sunset 5 and the Los Feliz 3 "Every man should leave a legacy, something he......

When the documentary Soul in the Hole opens, Kenny Jones - a round, profane, pissed-off black man - fills the screen. The coach of a Bed-Stuy b-ball team, he's cursing out a referee for a bad call, his sucker-punch being to call the unnerved man a faggot. Jones is pure......

A few weeks ago, at the end of a Nuart Theater press screening of Russian director Alexander Sokurov's Mother and Son, another viewer asked what I thought of the movie. Before I could answer, he quipped, "It was like watching paint dry." He won't be alone in that assessment. A......

Gender and sexual politics, the lingering power of the color-caste system, critiques of the production and exploitation of the world's black cultures, and the search for a meaningful black "self" beneath it all - these are the issues, themes and marketing hooks that populate this year's Pan African Film Festival......