Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Exclusive: Johan Grimonprez directs the Sundance award-winning documentary about the plan to assassinate Congo’s premier prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Who knew that jazz legends like Louis ...

Director Johan Grimonprez trusts audiences to follow every complicated nuance of a historical narrative, illuminating contemporary African politics in the process. Touching on far more than the ...

Rendered in non-linear fashion, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat unfolds in three acts: an insight into the frosty relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the use ...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, originally a four-hour film, is still a very long 151-minute documentary by Johan Grimonprez. While the filmmaker may have at times oversimplified the intersections of US ...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) commands you to lean in and pay attention and connect the dots of its story and, well, just summon the fortitude to ...

The fascinating documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’État tracks the timeline and multiple threads in the early 1960s involving Africa’s colonial racism, keen interest in Congo’s uranium mining and ...

The “extraction economy” is to blame for many social ills, says Johan Grimonprez. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics The Oscar-nominated doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is ...

In 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech to the United Nations, nobly imploring member nations to allow Congo to emerge independent of colonial power Belgium. “The people of the Congo are ...

Director Johan Grimonprez delves into Belgium's past to investigate the plot against Congolese independence. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Louis Armstrong arrived in the Congolese capital, ...