Crosstown Arts Film Series: February
For the month of February, the Crosstown Arts Films Series will highlight features that focus on Black love, Black fantasy, Black beauty standards, Black coming-of-age experiences, and more.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents ALMA’S RAINBOW
Almas’s Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy/drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights of Black women have over their bodies.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents COOLEY HIGH
Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago’s near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high school seniors prepare for post-high-school life.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller.
