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I want to articulate this. Even in the most benign films, non-white audiences are required to endure the scope of white humanity in a way that white audiences usually don’t
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Been making my way through Raoul Peck’s incredible documentary series “Exterminate All The Brutes” on HBO Max. It’s about how Europeans invented whiteness and then unleashed themselves into the world
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The cost of losing is so asymmetric. What have Donald’s supporters actually lost?No one is going to surveil their places of worship, mandate abortions, limit their martial rights, take their
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Eye contact is a whole economy. And I don’t just mean eye contact between two people. But, rather, who gets eye contact, who doesn’t, how long someone gets it, the
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I saw a tweet about Scream’s opening scene. I’m reminded of how David Mamet talks about how the unconscious unknowingly informs a screenwriter’s and director’s instincts. Well, Scream 2’s opening
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“When Stevie Nicks played the song to the group, ‘they weren’t nuts about it. But, I said please! Please record this song. At least try it. Because the way I
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I know we like to joke on this app and we’re capable of joking about anything. But, I want to be honest for a second and not make light of
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I want to talk about memory and the superstitions of black folks, and I want to do it by looking at one of the forgotten masterpieces of American cinema. Charles
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Something I’ve been trying to articulate.My favorite filmmakers had great training, were fortunate enough to be able to access resources, had the luck of opportunity, and have incredible technique.But, all
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I just. I just feel like everyone freely touches their masks, constantly takes them off and on, and more or less wears them like festival passes. CORONA: You know. I
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Man.Revisiting Spike Lee’s filmography and his middle (He Got Game, Summer of Sam, 25th Hour, Inside Man) is truly, truly, truly elite. I re-watched Clockers (1995, also in that middle)
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Steven Soderbergh directed Contagion, a film about a global pandemic that collapses society. and High Flying Bird, a film about black NBA players understanding how to use their power to
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