Collections/May 2024

Directed by Michael Roemer

Now ninety-six years old, director Michael Roemer was always ahead of his time—and at last, after decades of neglect, the world is catching up to his profoundly humanist, unfailingly truthful vision. A Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi Germany as a child, Roemer has made only a handful of features, but each—the landmark portrait of Black American struggle Nothing but a Man , the wryly offbeat gangster comedy The Plot Against Harry , and the slow-burn domestic drama Vengeance Is Mine —is a small miracle of American independent filmmaking, rich in feeling for character and place and graced with a vérité authenticity that reveals deep insights into human relationships.

3 films — 1 on the Channel, 2 unavailable