Posts Tagged ‘ film ’

New York in the mid 1930’s in Color! – YouTube

The Flying Train

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White Noise, a Film About “the Seductive Power of Extremism”

The Atlantic is releasing their first feature-length documentary later this month.1 The film is called White Noise and it’s about the white nationalist movement in the US. Director Daniel Lombroso spent four years embedded in the “alt-right” movement to figure out how it works.

Source: White Noise, a Film About “the Seductive Power of Extremism”

Two Thumbs Up: Movies and Documentaries to Use (and Avoid) When Teaching Civil Rights – Zinn Education Project

This article on films is reprinted with permission from Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement.

Article from “Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement” edited by Hasan Kwame Jeffries. A critical review of films on the Civil Rights Movement and institutionalized racism, with dozens of recommendations of films to watch and those to avoid.

Source: Two Thumbs Up: Movies and Documentaries to Use (and Avoid) When Teaching Civil Rights – Zinn Education Project

Becoming, a Film About Michelle Obama

Based on her memoir of the same name and produced by the production company she created with her husband, Becoming is a film about Michelle Obama that premiered on Netflix today. Becoming is an intimate look into the life of former First Lady Michelle Obama during a moment of profound change, not only for her personally but for the country she and her husband served over eight impactful years in the White House. . . .

Source: Becoming, a Film About Michelle Obama

Marina Abramovic and Ulay (1943 – 2020) | 3 Quarks Daily

Source: Ulay (1943 – 2020) | 3 Quarks Daily

First Cow director Kelly Reichardt on frontier-era baking and capitalism – Vox

 

 

 

The first cow leaves the barge on the river.

This film about the first bovine on the frontier is all about friendship, capitalism, and baking.

Source: First Cow director Kelly Reichardt on frontier-era baking and capitalism – Vox

Hannah Stamler on Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) – Artforum International

GRETA GERWIG’S GREAT SUBJECT is the twilight of girlhood. She has become something like the patron saint of girls on the precipice, or, as Britney Spears put it twenty years ago, the not-girls-not-yet-women. Her heroines, sharp and tender, find themselves caught between their past and future selves; they are consumed by the task of reconciling youthful hopes with present realities, slouching toward some kind of self-actualization, and away from adolescence real or protracted.In both Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), cowritten by Gerwig, she plays adrift twentysomethings struggling . . .

Source: Hannah Stamler on Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) – Artforum International

Pamela Robertson-Pearce: BORDERLINE on Vimeo

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a Queer Homage to the Labor of Women Artists

From Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma (all images courtesy of Pyramide Films)

More than being one of the greatest lesbian romances, Céline Sciamma’s latest is a beautiful film about artistic labor and the social contexts that uplift some artists above others.

Source: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a Queer Homage to the Labor of Women Artists