Crown Heights
First screened in December 2017
Director: Matt Ruskin. Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Paul, Luke Forbes, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Adriane Lenox, James Udom, Zach Grenier, Josh Pais, Carlos Hendricks, Mohammed Ali, Skylan Brooks, Bill Camp, Nestor Carbonell. Screenplay: Matt Ruskin. Twitter Capsule:
As a script and as a film it could cut deeper, add more layers. As a story it's timely and moving. Glad I saw it.
VOR:③
Surely an opportunity here to make a bolder statement about incarceration, but in a way the film's restrained tone is a fresh choice.
