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NYC Weekend Watch: Catherine Breillat, Powell and Pressburger, Charli XCX & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA Catherine Breillat retrospective begins, featuring many restorations; Before Sunset screens outdoors on Friday. Museum of Modern ArtA career-spanning Powell and Pressburger retrospective begins. Roxy CinemaFellox Roxy...
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Friday One Sheet: LONGLEGS (Again)
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Perhaps the best movie marketing effort of 2024, at least via its posters, has been for Osgoode Perkins' soon to be released Longlegs. We have always been ardent admirers of design house GrandSon, and, quite simply put, they have been...
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Marvel’s Black Villain Era
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The question of villainy has always been a complicated issue for African Americans in film. Being seen as full characters has been a struggle, and Black people were so marginalized in American cinema they didn’t even get to be bad...
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​Donald Sutherland: The Consummate Character Actor
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Actor Donald Sutherland died on Thursday in Miami, aged 88. Recognizable to six decades of film fans for his mellifluous voice and probing eyes, Sutherland was as close to stardom as character acting gets. Though seldom weighted with the burden...
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Black Out: The Disappearance of Black Couples in Advertising
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Have you been watching TV at all these days? If you have, odds are you have seen fewer and fewer Black couples living and enjoying life together in commercials. Seeing a Black man and a Black woman together is almost...
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It’s About Reshaping: David Kirkman on Underneath: The Children of the Sun
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
What if Christopher Nolan and Spike Lee teamed-up to collaborate on a film together? The results would probably be a lot like the small micro-budget sci-fi film “Underneath: Children of the Sun” directed by St. Louis native David Kirkman.  The...
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Fancy Dance
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared Native women, fractured families, lost language, and forced assimilation. Cinema has also played a role in this cultural violence, depicting Native people as stubborn, violent barriers to progress....
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Copa 71
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in history was a gauntlet fought on and off the field, a feat you likely haven’t heard of. It’s Copa 71, the first, though unofficial, women’s soccer World Cup....
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some of them run hotels ("Interview with the Vampire"), some live polyamorously in Staten Island ("What We Do in the Shadows"), and some dance the ballet while torturing their enemies...
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Chestnut
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer marks the end of the familiar and the beginning of more uncertain futures. Unlike the transition from high school to higher education, the move away from college life...
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