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Here's what's playing — MARCH 5-11 — at in-person and virtual cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic
'Test Pattern' director Shatara Michelle Ford talks with PopMatters about putting everyday fear into film.
'Test Pattern' Is a Master Class in Body Language Shatara Michelle Ford's debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class K. Austin Collins, provided by Feb. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail “I never ask people, just casually, for their phone number,” Evan (Will Brill) says. This is how he greets Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), a woman he met in a bar sometime before, whose number he’d asked for in front of her friends, whose shyness seemed, at the time, endearing. Now they’re two strangers in a grocery store parking lot in Texas having an awkward run-in beca...
Skip to main content Currently Reading New movies to stream this week: 'Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art,' 'Test Pattern' and more Michael O'Sullivan and Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Feb. 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Ann Freedman, the former director of Knoedler Gallery, in the documentary "Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art."Melbar Entertainment GroupShow MoreShow Less 3of11 5of11Kalbinur Rahmati in "A First Farewell."Cheng Cheng FilmsShow MoreShow Less 6of11 7of11"Everything - The Real Thing Story" follows the career of an all-Black soul band in ...
Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune By contrasting two different nights out in Austin, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is doing something so canny in her debut indie feature "Test Pattern." Drinks and dancing one night lead to a sweetly awkward meeting between the film's main character, Renesha, and the man who will eventually become her live-in boyfriend. Much later — it could be months, it could be years, it's never specified — a similar night of drinks and dancing will result in Renesha being drugged and sexually assaulted by a stranger. That these two vastly different outcomes can stem f...