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Articles The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, 2011)
Slacker-ish Colin (Alex Ross Perry), living with his girlfriend Zoe (Ry Russo-Young) in an uninspired going-nowhere-fast relationship, agrees to a road trip with his aspiring (to of all things) anchor woman sister J.R. (Carlen Altman), just dropped out of broadcasting school, to help retrieve her belongings from the shifty professor…
September 7th, 2019
Articles Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)
…and relaxed ambition of Perry’s debut feature, The Color Wheel (with the retro series screening four of his five features, in nicely accommodating chronological order) to overlook some of its more awkward almost student-esque qualities and allow myself to enjoy it, I wasn’t at all prepared to step into the…
September 15th, 2019
Articles Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry, 2017)
…isn’t a comedy however. Perry’s fourth film (and the third I’ve seen as part of this retro), following interwoven characters (who are barely, if at all, aware of the connections) delivering dialogue operating at the level of the higher educated – with only Naomi, the outsider from outside the city…
September 29th, 2019
Articles 18th Bradford International Film Festival
…was We Are Poets (Alex Ramsayer-Bache and Daniel Lucchesi, UK, 2011), which follows the fortunes of six teenagers from a Leeds slam poetry collective who compete against fellow poets in Washington DC. The film shows how the six are selected, how they prepare for the event and how they fare…
May 31st, 2012
Articles ICONOGRAPHY (Part 1): Ideas, Images, and Individuals in Film, Books, and Life; featuring Chronicles of Narnia, Far Side of the Moon, Jarhead, and more
…1970s, and enjoyed Diana Ross’s impersonation of her in the late 1970s television special “An Evening with Diana Ross.” I read a little about Josephine Baker over the years, even heard a little of her music; and in the 1990s, I saw Princess Tam-Tam on television, and found it very…
February 28th, 2006
Articles Sane Substance: Mark Reid’s book Black Lenses, Black Voices
…say something,” Burnett told Alex Cox and Tod Davies, a conversation published in Film Comment, March-April 2007.) Many independent films have gone without audiences; and independent films by and about African-Americans have an even harder time than most in finding audiences and enlightened critical champions—and beyond the difficulties of finding…
April 30th, 2007
Articles On Virtue, Friendship, and Political Participation in the film The Long Walk Home and in the book Contemporary Black American Cinema
…Alice, Gloria Foster, Diana Ross, Angela Bassett, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Halle Berry, Viola Davis, Kimberly Elise, Anika Noni Rose, and Beyonce Knowles, transcendent and popular artists. Goldberg is also one of the great family of clowns, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and Mae West to Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx, Lily…
July 31st, 2013
Articles American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, 2023, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett)
…sister Lisa (Tracey Ellis Ross), an obstetrician, and witnesses her suffer a fatal heart attack over lunch (family loss, grief). -Major Event 5: He meets his handsome brother Clifford, a plastic surgeon (probably named after American writer Clifford Odets, and played by Sterling K. Brown) who has recently stormed out…
April 30th, 2024
Articles Self as Individual Consciousness, And Embodiment of Nation
…until the American Matthew Perry compelled the Japanese (shogunate) government to open trade ports in 1854. The shogunate lasted until 1867; and the action in the film The Last Samurai occurs after its’ end, after the restoration of the emperor. Those facts, though, do not mean anything without context, and…
May 31st, 2004
Articles Location Nation: A Regional Irish Cinema, Part 3: And the Rest (plus a Conclusion)
…of Prague statues, Robbie Perry’s twangy blues score commenting on the unsettling drama and a sense of deep-seated personal oppression, this slice of irreverent absurdism looks and sounds for all the world like a Nick Cave redemption song come to life. There is no mistaking the significance of the specificity…
January 26th, 2024