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Film
,
Movie Review
Jan 15, 2020
Dolittle
teaches that communication is key
But the pro-colonialism narrative leaves something to be desired.
By Noah Berlatsky
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Dolittle
,
Stephen Gaghan
,
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Jessie Buckley
,
Emme Thompson
,
Rami Malek
,
Harry Collett
,
Doctor Dolittle
,
Craig Robinson
,
colonialism
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Oct 11, 2017
A Chicago theater veteran’s view from Puerto Rico
Longtime Theater Oobleck ensemble member Dave Buchen sees hurricane devastation from his house on a hill in San Juan.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
On Culture
,
Santurce district, San Juan
,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
,
Puerto Rico
,
hurricanes
,
Hurricane Maria
,
Hurricane Irma
,
Theater Oobleck
,
Dave Buchen
,
hurricane relief
,
The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
,
National Museum of Mexican Art
,
fundraising
,
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
,
Puerto Rican Agenda
,
Teatro Breve
,
Juan Pablo Díaz
,
artists
,
Puerto Rican artists
,
Radio Vieques
,
Taller Salud
,
colonialism
,
natural disasters
,
Mexico
,
debt
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 27, 2013
This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Columbia professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (and others) about
No Fear, No Die
and
35 Shots of Rum
A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France,
No Fear, No Die
(1990) and
35 Shots of Rum
(2008)
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Foreign
,
Poetry
,
Film
,
Claire Denis
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
,
Jerry & Me
,
35 Shots of Rum
,
No Fear No Die
,
Alex Descas
,
Cockfighter
,
Monte Hellman
,
Yasujiro Ozu
,
Late Spring
,
colonialism
,
Jean-Claude Brialy
,
Frantz Fanon
,
John Cassavetes
,
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
,
Abbas Kiarostami
,
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
,
Cafe Lumiere
,
Five Dedicated to Ozu
,
Chester Himes
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
nouvelle vague
,
Jacques Rivette
,
Isaach de Bankolé
,
Agnes Varda
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 6, 2013
This week in Claire Denis: Talking to local critic Marilyn Ferdinand about
Chocolat
and
White Material
The first in a series of conversations about the noted French filmmaker, the subject of a monthlong retrospective at the Gene Siskel Film Center
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Foreign
,
Women's Issues
,
Film
,
History
,
Claire Denis
,
Chocolat
,
White Material
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Marilyn Ferdinand
,
Ferdy on Films
,
Shane Truax
,
female filmmakers
,
globalization
,
French colonialism
,
Tabu
,
colonialism
,
Miguel Gomes
,
The Invisible Collection
,
Caryl Churchill
,
Cloud 9
,
Landscapes of Loss
,
Naomi Greene
,
Muriel
,
Alain Resnais
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 19, 2012
2016: Obama's America
: an exegesis
I watched Dinesh D'Souza's crappy movie so you don't have to
By Sam Worley
Tags:
Piety
,
Election 2012
,
Film
,
Politics
,
2016: Obama's America
,
Dinesh D'Souza
,
Kenya
,
colonialism
,
anticolonialism
,
freedom fighters
,
Bill Ayers
,
Jeremiah Wright
,
Barack Obama
,
Winston Churchill
,
busts
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Review
Apr 11, 2012
Extermination lite
We Are Proud to Present . . .
doesn’t do justice to its horrific subject
By Tony Adler
Tags:
Performing Arts Review
,
Herero people
,
Namibia
,
genocide
,
Sudwestafrika
,
Jackie Sibblies Drury
,
colonialism
,
Holocaust
,
Eric Ting
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Review
Mar 7, 2012
Talking while Africa burns
Danai Gurira's
The Convert
leaves us praying for something more than debate
By Justin Hayford
Tags:
Performing Arts Review
,
Danai Guriria
,
Goodman Theater
,
Africa
,
colonialism
,
Zimbabwe
,
British Empire
,
Cecil Rhodes
,
LeRoy McClain
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 22, 2010
Video
Burn!
The Marlon Brando drama "Burn!" about a slave revolt on a Caribbean sugar colony screens in a Haiti benefit Saturday 1/23 at La Biblioteca Popular.
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Marlon Brando
,
Burn!
,
Haiti
,
La Biblioteca Popular
,
The Battle of Algiers
,
Gillo Pontecorvo
,
slave
,
revolt
,
sugar
,
colonialism
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 2, 2009
Video
Blood money
A wronged woman returns to her village for revenge in Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese satire of colonialism "Hyenas," screening tonight in the Black World Cinema series at Chatham 14.
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Colonialism
,
Senegal
,
Djibril Diop Mambety
,
Hyenas
,
Joanthan Rosenbaum
,
Touki Bouki
,
Black World Cinema
,
Chatham 14
,
Floyd Webb
,
The Search for Count Dante
,
John Keehan
,
Dan Kelly
,
The Visit
,
Swiss
,
Friedrich Durrenmatt
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 6, 2006
You can't talk about good empires! My head is exploding!
Two Dartmouth economists argue that European colonization may have been a positive thing.
By Harold Henderson
Tags:
Economics
,
History
,
Empire
,
Colonialism
,
Rhetoric
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