In Theaters
It’s easy to see the attraction that Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 film The Exiles — a jazzy cinema-verite portrait of 14 hours in the life of a band of Native Americans living in a picturesquely downtrodden Los Angeles neighborhood — would have for distributor Milestone, as it marries the socioeconomic concerns of their re-releases like Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba with a similar brand of bravura Southern California underground auteur style seen in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep. Although Mackenzie’s work will probably attain the kind of totemic stature of those films, it certainly deserves to stand alongside them as one of the great under-seen gems of the 1960s.
The Exiles is in limited release right now and should not be missed. Read the full review at Film Journal International.
