Before Sunset

"The rest of the film—gorgeously shot in black-and-white by James Laxton—follows as the duo spends the day (and another night) peeling back the layers in conversations that cover interracial relationships, striking the balance between what you do and how you pay the bills, and the role of 'urban planning' in pushing poor and black folk out of San Francisco. 'Imagine the Lower Haight,' says Micah, recalling his childhood, 'filled with nothing but black folk and white artists.' The lament will resonate from San Francisco to D.C., Los Angeles to Harlem, as enclaves that were once hubs of black American life are drained of their blackness."

In the LA Weekly, Ernest Hardy reviews the new movie Medicine for Melancholy.