Nandini and I saw Med Hondo’s Soleil Ô (1970) at its recent Anthology Film Archives screening, where it was part of a program on Malcolm X. The connection to Malcolm X is somewhat tenuous: he appears in the form of a poster, alongside other revolutionary icons such as Che and Patrice Lumumba, during the final sequence of Robert Liensol screaming and running through a forest to escape the horrors of bucolic white French c...