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Ernest Hardy

Ernest Hardy is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group and its film partner, the Village Voice. VMG publications include LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.

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The New Black and Other Docs Ask, “Why Has Black Been Made the Face of Homophobia?”

By Ernest Hardy
Jul 18, 2013

There’s a gorgeous moment in Yoruba Richen’s documentary The New Black, currently playing the film festival circuit, in which two young black lesbian activists canvass an inner-city black neighborhood to drum up support for the gay marriage initiative that was on the ballot in Maryland’s 2012 statewide election. The women...
Ava DuVernay and the Future of Black Film

A moment becomes a movement.

By Ernest Hardy
Oct 4, 2012

"Positive characterizations are complex characterizations," says writer-director Ava DuVernay, tucking into a serving of roasted potatoes. "That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine. You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them." It's a recent Sunday afternoon, and...
Floor-to-Floor Combat

Cops versus thugs in high-powered high-rise fight flick The Raid.

By Ernest Hardy
Mar 28, 2012

Lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans's Indonesian martial arts film The Raid: Redemption lives up to its viral hype and the buzz it generated at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Rama (Iko Uwais) is a rookie...
That Other Rumble in the Jungle

Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show.

By Ernest Hardy
Jul 29, 2009

"When you bad," boasts the young and beautiful, piss-and-vinegar-filled Muhammad Ali early in the documentary Soul Power, "you can do what you wanna do." The film, which takes too long to get to the meat of its matter, but captivates once it does, is an addendum to Leon Gast's Oscar-winning...
Opposites Attract in Chris & Don

Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)

By Ernest Hardy
Oct 1, 2008

A glint in his eye and a grin on his lips, artist Don Bachardy looks into the camera and explains the dynamic of his three-decade relationship with the late literary icon Christopher Isherwood as if it were a fairy tale. "His role," says Bachardy, "could be described as that of...