Sometimes you want to sit down and enjoy some unadulterated girl power. Whilst it wasn’t so long ago that passing the Beckdale test was a modern miracle, we’re now thankfully in the age where we can experience a strong female lead just about whenever we want to. Netflix has got a great selection of both …
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As a white woman growing up in Italy in the 50s and 60s, I became a leftist and a feminist, I was not as aware as I should have been about the history of Black oppression in this country.
Two recent movies feature leaders of the Black Panther Party. In The Trial of the Chicago 7, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, Bobby Seale is tried separately from the other 7 defendants, but sits in the courtroom, and, behind him, Fred Hampton gives him advice. In Judas and the Black Messiah, directed by Shaka …
Episode One — Sing Street The My Celluloid Antidepressant series — which begins with Sing Street — has now taken on new meaning as we adjust to the new normal vocabulary of “shelter in place,” “self quarantine” and “pandemic.” There is no longer a need to be depressed, anxious, or have any other psychiatric condition …
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Machipisa in Highfeilds is a paradoxical African high density suburb in Zimbabwe. It gave birth to the both iconic song maestros and political heavyweights inclusive of the late George Nyandoro, Enos Nkala. Robert Mugabe, the late nationalist and former long serving president of Zimbabwe, resided in Highfeilds before his long trip to Mozambican jungles to …
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Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment, a new film produced by Cultural Weekly/Next Echo foundation community member B.K. Fulton, will be available on iTunes on November 19. You can pre-order it now here: http://bit.ly/LoveDotCom In Love Dot Com, Shelby Quinn (Brave Willians) is a Social Justice Food Warrior working to uplift her gentrifying community. Anything …
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In modern society, cultural awareness is growing in almost all aspects of life. This is evident from the way people treat each other during their daily communication, including how important and sensitive objects are created and discussed. The way in which films depict psychoactive substance use disorders is an excellent illustration of evolution. Nowadays it …
“Her admirers—middle-aged men and clergymen—respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.” In 1937, Graham Greene wrote these words in a review of Shirley Temple’s film Wee Willie …
Since the Academy announced last week that they were changing the Oscars, I and many others in the film industry have been awaiting for clarifications. They haven’t come yet. While the clarifications will certainly come, and soon, so people can plan their Academy Award release strategies and campaigns, I’m sure one reason is the announcement …
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[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Ostensibly, the role of the Oscars is to give awards for great filmmaking to cast and crew. And ostensibly, that’s what the Oscars are doing. This year’s batch of best picture nominees is fantastic, with a groundbreaking sci-fi/fantasy …
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The climate is changing. It’s getting colder, and not just in Park City, which will have snow this year as it did last, after a spate of summer-like Januaries. The independent filmmaking climate as a whole is changing, and our data shows that filmmaking is changing with it. When we first started doing our Sundance …
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“By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers” has been Slamdance’s brand concept since its inception in 1995, and it’s a mantra that continues this year, as Slamdance celebrates its 2018 edition January 19-25. Slamdance offers a counterweight to the Park City madness of Sundance, although Slamdance has its own madness, the creative anarchy of being filmmaker-governed and focused …
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Industry practices are biased from within.
I’ve been a regular film festival-goer ever since I was 19-years-old studying Cinema at Bologna University, where I graduated with a thesis on Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French novelist and filmmaker. But I have never been more awed by a festival as I was last week, when I attended the 30th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato …
Chris Rock got it right when he called out Hollywood on Sunday night’s Oscarcast: “Is Hollywood racist? You’re damn right Hollywood’s racist. But it isn’t the racist you’ve grown accustomed to. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like — ‘We like you, Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.’ That’s how Hollywood is.” Rock got it right …
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