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The following table of contents features all articles published during Black Writers Week 2022 (June 19th through June 26th), arranged in the following categories: intros, features, interviews, reviews, republished features and republished reviews. —The Editors INTROS Meet...

Black Women Directors is an online digital library I first created as a Tumblr in 2015 and later migrated to a standalone site. I created BWD as a way to highlight the contributions of Black women...

Something astonishing happened last year on June 19, 2021. As we launched our first Black Writers Week here at RogerEbert.com, Juneteenth became an official federal holiday. It’s full proper name is Juneteenth National Independence Day. I...

The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) has returned to Miami Beach for its 26th year, running from June 15 to June 30. The festival had been virtual for the past two years amid the coronavirus (COVID-19)...

On this special day of Roger Ebert’s birth, we are reposting a 2014 Google+ Hangout event that featured Chaz Ebert, Werner Herzog, Steve James, Alan Polsky, John Singleton, Anne Thompson, Matt Zoller Seitz, Ali Arikan, Sam Fragoso, Josh Golden...

Happy Birthday Roger! Today, June 18th, would be your 80th Earth Birthday! So in anticipation of our Black Writers Week, we are publishing a compilation of 15 reviews of various essential films by Black directors. We hope you are getting a bird’s...

Jean-Louis Trintignant had one of the archetypal screen faces, a beautiful mask behind which we could see his mind working and judging everything around him. It was a severe face, often impassive or sullen, so that...

“Official Competition,” a Spanish comedy about a director and two actors preparing to shoot a movie, is performance-driven. It consists of little more than scenes of its three leads interacting, mostly in a series of rehearsal spaces...

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This observation, attributed to Mark Twain, is particularly apt as the 50th anniversary of the “third rate burglary” at the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate building office that led to...

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert and producer/lawyer Brenda Robinson are special guests on the latest hour-long episode of filmmakers Jason and Yvonne Lee’s podcast, “Lagralane Spirits,” entitled, “The Roles We Play.” It is the second episode of...