N its current 112-minute state, "Sidney" covers every aspect of Poitier’s amazing life, but had it been extended to, say, 135 minutes would have been perfect.
Sidney Poitier & His Trailblazing Contemporaries, a four-week, 48-film festival paying tribute to both the late actor and lesser-known actors of his own generation, will run at Film Forum from April 1 through April 28. The series, originally planned for 2020 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Poitier’s film debut (in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s No