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The Rep Report is our regular roundup of current retrospectives and film series. This week, we're focusing on an important and fun series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music called Black \u201990s: A Turning Point in American Cinema. It's a carefully curated look at major works by black filmmakers in the 1990s, such as the late John Singleton\u2019s Boyz n the Hood, Charles Burnett\u2019s To Sleep With Anger, Kasi Lemmons\u2019s Eve\u2019s Bayou, Leslie Harris\u2019s Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., and Hype Williams\u2019s Belly, as well as lesser known works like Zeinabu Irene Davis\u2019s Compensation and Haile Gerima\u2019s Sankofa, among many others. The programmer of the series, Ashley Clark\u2014who has written for Film Comment about Burnett and Ava Duvernay, among others\u2014joined FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold for an in-depth conversation about Black \u201990s and the riches on offer throughout the series.