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Black Writers Week 2024: Table of Contents
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The following table of contents features all articles published during Black Writers Week 2024 (June 17th through June 23rd). —The Editors REVIEWS Naked Acts by Niani ScottSlave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. by Brandon Towns FEATURES Introduction to Black Writers Week...
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The LightReel Film Festival Finishes Strong
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The 5th Annual LightReel Film Festival concluded on June 8, 2024, after completing its strongest slate of films, panels, and parties in its short five-year history. During a year when concerns were raised about movie attendance's downward trend, LightReel tripled...
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How Women of Color Are Shifting the Narrative
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From Hattie McDaniel to Shonda Rhimes to Debra Martin Chase, Black women have shifted the narrative and broken down barriers where we were never expected, welcomed, or encouraged to succeed.  As women leaders, there has been a tendency for the...
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It’s Physical Work: Barry Jenkins on The Underground Railroad
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When “The Underground Railroad” premiered on Amazon Prime Video during the pandemic, some were worried. At a moment when Black bodies were occupying grisly breaking news and haunting police chest cameras, many wondered if it was the right time for...
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Naked Acts
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Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,” recently rediscovered by Maya S. Cade, presented by Julie Dash, Kino Lorber and Milestone Films, is an independent film that takes its audience through the independent filmmaking process and...
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Exclusive Trailer: Jake Paltrow Programs Seven Influences on June Zero for NYC’s Quad Cinema
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After teaming with Noah Baumbach to direct one of the best-ever documentaries about filmmaking, De Palma, Jake Paltrow is back with a new feature. June Zero is a vividly textured telling of the preparations for the 1962 execution of Adolf...
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POPULATION PURGE: Trailer Premiere For Indie, Dystopic Action Thriller
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Brian Johnson's dystopian action thriller, Population Pruge, is coming to digital platforms on July 9th. Written together with Toby Osborne, the indie tells the story of a father and daughter who are trying to help survivors of a government-planned culling...
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DELICATE ARCH Trailer: Supernatural Thriller From Exec Producer Rodney Ascher to Have World Premiere at Dances With Films
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Heading out into the wilderness and losing your shit is not that uncommon in genre cinema. What makes you pay particular attention to a project is when your film has the backing of one Rodney Ascher, director of such faves...
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First Trailer for Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez Starring Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón & Selena Gomez
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One of the splashiest and most divisive movies coming out of Cannes Film Festival this year was Jacques Audiard’s musical crime comedy Emilia Perez, which stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Édgar Ramírez. Picking up...
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Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Shines a Floodlamp on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Worst Tendencies
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Kinds of Kindness is Lanthimos’s longest film, and the one most hamstrung by his pet interests. The post Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Shines a Floodlamp on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Worst Tendencies appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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