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Liani Greaves and Barry Jenkins on Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A standout of this year in films, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is an extraordinary feat of resurrection. In 1972, the director William Greaves gathered luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington’s house in New York for a party and then filmed their lively conversations— ... Show more

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Fall New Releases, with Inney Prakash and Michael Blair

On this week's episode, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited FC Contributing Editor Inney Prakash and Assistant Editor Michael Blair to debate three new films that are currently gracing the marquees of multiplexes and stirring up discourse: Bassam Tariq's ... Show more

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