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HBO’s ‘Bessie’ is a Biopic Worth Watching

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There have been many award-winning films covering black public figures over the past decade—”Selma,” “Get On Up,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The Butler”—and they’ve all been about men. HBO’s latest release “Bessie”—which follows the life of blues legend Bessie Smith—finally adds a leading lady to the list. Slate calls the movie “probably the boldest and most revealing biopic [about a black woman], offering a side …

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And Everything Is Going Fine

Criterion Collection releases new commentary to the 2010 documentary

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For fans of Spalding Gray familiar with his monologues from films like “Swimming to Cambodia” (1987), directed by Jonathan Demme, or “Gray’s Anatomy” (1996), directed by Steven Soderbergh, “And Everything Is Going Fine” (also directed by Soderbergh in 2010) is somewhat of a departure from form. In an effort to create a more complete picture of who Gray was, Soderbergh pieced the documentary together entirely …