Stephen Tyrone Williams and Johnny Ferro in Children of God, directed by Kareem Mortimer. Photograph courtesy the trinidad+tobago film festival
The September 2010 issue of the CRB wraps up today, with the publication of our latest “Also noted” column, featuring brief reviews of ten recent books from and about the Caribbean. (They include Cecil Gray’s latest book of poems, two coming-of-age novels set in contemporary Trinidad, scholarly books on Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, and a series of guides to Caribbean street food).
As regular Antilles readers know, this issue of the CRB also includes a special section on recent Caribbean film, supported by the trinidad+tobago film festival 2010. Here’s a roundup of the seven films we’ve reviewed, in case you missed one or two:
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Could you be loved
Nicholas Laughlin on Children of God, directed by Kareem Mortimer
Gold fever
Georgia Popplewell on Orpailleur, directed by Marc Barrat
There will be blood
Jane Bryce on La Soga, directed by Josh Crook
Songs of the road
Ian Craig on Los Viajes del Viento, directed by Ciro Guerra
The return of the native
Dylan Kerrigan on The Amerindians, directed by Tracy Assing and Sophie Meyer
Addicted to rockstone
Kellie Magnus on The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry, directed by Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough
Colour wheel
Andre Bagoo on Coolie Pink and Green, directed by Patricia Mohammed
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We’re very pleased the ttff decided to support this special film coverage, and we hope their partnership with the CRB will continue in some form.
You can see the full contents of the now-complete September 2010 issue here — now is a good time to catch up with anything you missed during the busy past eight weeks. Some highlights: Vahni Capildeo’s survey of the late Guyanese poet Mahadai Das; Mervyn Morris’s essay on the life and poetic achievement of Wayne Brown; Melissa Richards on Anton Nimblett’s short fiction; J. Michael Dash on Matthew J. Smith’s political history of Haiti in the mid-twentieth century; and Edwidge Danticat’s moving essay on writing and reading in dangerous times.
And now to gear up for the launch of the November issue . . .
