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Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophète: Hard Cons with a French Flair
Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophète has been called a French Goodfellas, combining elements of the prison movie, the gangster film, and the coming of age story all at once. This Goodfellas tag is kind of a marketing ploy. Watching the movie never reminded me of the Scorsese classic. No, Un Prophète is something different. Though sharing some thematic [...]
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Beat Street: Hip-Hop Announces Itself to the World
For this third variation on a hip-hop theme, let us take a look at one of the most important events in the history of Hip-Hop: the creation and global mass distribution of the film feature and Hip-Hop epic, Beat Street (1984).
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Second Variation on a Hip-Hop Theme: The Last Poets and the Historical Shift
The Last Poets were the first Hip-Hop group. However, this is not Hip-Hop that we today would immediately recognize. They began as ‘three poets and a drummer’, and quickly grew to include seven young Black and Hispanic artists: David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Abiodun Oyewole, Felipe Luciano, Umar Bin Hassan, Jalal Nurridin, and Suliamn El [...]
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Che Guevera on Film and the ‘Politics of Salvation’
We have probably all heard the old canard that “everything is political”. For Florentine philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, absolutely nothing existed above politics. Even Christian salvation itself, in Machiavelli’s day the sole prerogative of the Roman Catholic Church, was itself political. One’s salvation depended on the blessing, and consequently the political favor of the Roman Church. In [...]
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Michael Moore’s “CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY”
Michael Moore’s documentary,Capitalism: A Love Story, is his magnum opus and a rousing call to action. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you think. During a recent television interview, Moore told the following story about a speech he gave to the crew on the first day of film-making, [...]
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