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★★★☆☆Khalik Allah’s mammoth, hypnotic documentary was shot mostly in Harlem on the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. Like Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross’s film of 2018
(Sky Store, 127mins) The torch singer with the hard life is a cliché with good reason, and none harder than Billie Holiday’s. The 1940s jazz stylist with that uniquely raspy, hypnotising voice had it tough from the get-go, and once fame hit was bullied, used and beaten by a string of dreadful men. Her addictions to alcohol and heroin were well known, and she was just 44 years old when she died of cirrhosis, her voice and body destroyed by decades of misuse. But that’s not the whole story of a great talent’s tragic demise, and in Lee Daniels’ woozy drama we hear how she might have bee...
Whereâs it on? BBC2, Sunday, 1.55am Never one for staying still, French director François Ozon rivals our own Michael Winterbottom for the sheer variety of projects on his CV and the speed with which he seems to bang them out. Not to get stuck in the rut making the erudite comedies and erotic thrillers that had shaped his 2010s up to this point, he turned his attentions to this very sober, mournful and elegant romantic drama set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Shot mainly in black and white and in German, itâs a loose remake of Ernst Lubitschâs 1932 fil...
I Walk on Water is a hefty documentary project from artist and film-maker Khalik Allah: something that might be called an investigative meditation on the lives of the homeless, the marginal and the dispossessed in Harlem in New York City, and the film-maker’s own life. Lasting three hours and 19 minutes, it is an expansive collage of video, celluloid and 16mm, in colour and black-and-white, something close to underground cinema. Allah simply...
IWOW: I WALK ON WATER is a US documentary about New York director and photographer Khalik Allah’s friendship with Frenchie, a homeless Haitian man.