The Sun and Other Stars

Brigid Pasulka unfolds young Etto’s grief and redemption in the small Italian Riviera town of San Benedetto, where he finds an unlikely path back to joy in the company of Ukrainian soccer star Yuri Fil and his alluring sister.

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

Satchmo’s iconic voice and evocative horn sing out in Thomas Brothers’s trenchant study of Armstrong’s shift from New Orleans sideman to worldwide sensation, while race, food, and romance form the rhythm.