Sundance Film Festival Review: A Criminally Overlooked Festival Gets Its Proper Due In Compelling Documentary “Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”

  In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place 100 miles away. More than 300,000 people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. It was filmed, but after that summer, the footage sat in a basement for 50 years. It has never been seen. Until …

Movie Review: “The Changin’ Times Of Ike White” Recounts A Music Extraordinaire Who Could Have Been The Biggest In The World

  Released in 1974, “Changin’ Times” was a stunning album of songs recorded in extraordinary circumstances – the first-ever commercial album recorded inside an American prison by an inmate. Its creator was a musical prodigy, Ike White, who was jailed for life at the age of 19 for murder. With the never-before-seen archive, the film …