Chinonye Chukwu was certain of two things setting out to tell the story of a loving and lovely 14-year-old boy lynched in 1955 Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. First, the story had to be told from the perspective of Mamie, the mother of Emmett Till. “We had to follow closely her emotional journey. For without Mamie, the world, we, would not have known who Emmett Till was.”
“I also knew that I did not want to show any violence inflicted on black bodies,” Chukwu said during a Q&a after the film’s rapturous reception at its New York Film Festival world premiere. (Deadline review here._ “Narratively speaking, since we are following Mamie’s journey, it is not necessary to see that physical violence. We have to stay with Mamie.”
So Till’s violent murder is heard, but not seen. “Where the camera focuses is its own act of resistance.
“I also knew that I did not want to show any violence inflicted on black bodies,” Chukwu said during a Q&a after the film’s rapturous reception at its New York Film Festival world premiere. (Deadline review here._ “Narratively speaking, since we are following Mamie’s journey, it is not necessary to see that physical violence. We have to stay with Mamie.”
So Till’s violent murder is heard, but not seen. “Where the camera focuses is its own act of resistance.
- 10/2/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
As complex and conflicted as the man himself, Rudy! A Documusical––which premiered on the same evening as the first primetime January 6 hearing––never quite knows to make of the man. There’s an old joke from Saturday Night Live‘s 9/11 era about making a TV movie featuring Rudy Giuliani and, true to the man himself, no one will like him until the last five minutes.
Directed by Jed Rothstein (WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a 47 Billion Unicorn and The China Hustle), this look at “America’s Mayor”-turned-Trump-personal-lawyer views Giuliani’s life through the lens of those who knew him well, with a musical performance that seems to enforce an uneasy operatic structure onto his rise and continual fall. The man of the hour himself only appears in found footage and through a theatrical interpretation that walks a fine line between sincere portrait of a now deeply troubled contrarian and political satire.
Directed by Jed Rothstein (WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a 47 Billion Unicorn and The China Hustle), this look at “America’s Mayor”-turned-Trump-personal-lawyer views Giuliani’s life through the lens of those who knew him well, with a musical performance that seems to enforce an uneasy operatic structure onto his rise and continual fall. The man of the hour himself only appears in found footage and through a theatrical interpretation that walks a fine line between sincere portrait of a now deeply troubled contrarian and political satire.
- 6/15/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
French director Louise Carrin, whose home for the past 13 years has been Lausanne, Switzerland, has an urge to create every day, she tells Variety. Moviemaking being a long process, for about 10 years now she has found equal satisfaction in music. She is about to release her debut rap album “Banana Part” under her alias Lweez. On Friday, she was on stage at the Visions du Réel film festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, to present her first feature film “Big Boy” (“La Cour des grands”). She spoke to Variety about her work.
Selected for the festival’s national competition, the moving film follows Amadou Diallo, a Guinean refugee, shortly after he arrived, on his own, in Lausanne. His brother died on the road to exile. His sister, the only family he has left, stayed behind. Amadou is 16 and his daily life is spent between the asylum seekers’ center and integration classes. Six...
Selected for the festival’s national competition, the moving film follows Amadou Diallo, a Guinean refugee, shortly after he arrived, on his own, in Lausanne. His brother died on the road to exile. His sister, the only family he has left, stayed behind. Amadou is 16 and his daily life is spent between the asylum seekers’ center and integration classes. Six...
- 4/11/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
On February 3rd, 1971, detective Frank Serpico — immortalized by Al Pacino in the gritty 1973 cop drama Serpico — was shot in the face. The bullet pierced him under the eye and lodged in his jaw.
Just a year earlier, he had gone public with evidence of shocking corruption within the New York Police Department, humiliating the force and prompting Mayor John Lindsay to launch an investigation and public hearing. Serpico had knocked on a suspected drug dealer’s door, and the door cracked open — when he turned around to beckon to the other cops,...
Just a year earlier, he had gone public with evidence of shocking corruption within the New York Police Department, humiliating the force and prompting Mayor John Lindsay to launch an investigation and public hearing. Serpico had knocked on a suspected drug dealer’s door, and the door cracked open — when he turned around to beckon to the other cops,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Tana Ganeva
- Rollingstone.com
Ava DuVernay’s collective Array keeps on amplifying voices and artists to help push systemic change and representation with the release of W.J. Lofton’s Breonna Taylor-inspired visual poem Would You Kill Go Too? Lofton is the second artist commissioned for Array’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (Leap), a fund founded in the wake of George Floyd’s murder to catalyze creative expression around police violence.
Lofton’s visual poem questions plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department who fatally shot 26-year-old Taylor in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment last year. Lofton’s poem is accompanied by a visual interpretation commissioned by Leap. In the artwork, Lofton describes the oppressive systems which destroyed and disregarded Breonna’s life while allowing her murderers to continue with their lives.
“W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem Would You Kill God Too? is a...
Lofton’s visual poem questions plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department who fatally shot 26-year-old Taylor in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment last year. Lofton’s poem is accompanied by a visual interpretation commissioned by Leap. In the artwork, Lofton describes the oppressive systems which destroyed and disregarded Breonna’s life while allowing her murderers to continue with their lives.
“W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem Would You Kill God Too? is a...
- 1/31/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, HBO released the first look at its “Lovecraft Country” adaptation, and ABC revealed its lineup of stars for “The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II,” coming May 10.
Dates
Quibi has detailed all of the bite-sized shows coming to the platform in the month of May. In addition to the previously announced “Reno 911!” revival coming May 4, “Useless Celebrity History” starring Adam Rippon will launch that day as well. Then, sports documentary “Blackballed,” and “Barkitecture,” which is hosted by “The Bachelorette” finalist Tyler Cameron, launch May 11; Dave Franco-starrer “The Now” and floral design show “Centerpiece” will be available starting May 18; and the Nitro Circus-produced “Life-Size Toys” comes to the app on May 25.
First Looks
Netflix has released a trailer for new docuseries “Trial by Media,” which streams May 11. The six-episode show will take a look back on some of the most memorable trials in history — including those of Jenny Jones,...
Dates
Quibi has detailed all of the bite-sized shows coming to the platform in the month of May. In addition to the previously announced “Reno 911!” revival coming May 4, “Useless Celebrity History” starring Adam Rippon will launch that day as well. Then, sports documentary “Blackballed,” and “Barkitecture,” which is hosted by “The Bachelorette” finalist Tyler Cameron, launch May 11; Dave Franco-starrer “The Now” and floral design show “Centerpiece” will be available starting May 18; and the Nitro Circus-produced “Life-Size Toys” comes to the app on May 25.
First Looks
Netflix has released a trailer for new docuseries “Trial by Media,” which streams May 11. The six-episode show will take a look back on some of the most memorable trials in history — including those of Jenny Jones,...
- 5/1/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
The repercussions of the courtroom’s continued convergence with the media are explored in the new trailer for the upcoming Netflix docuseries, Trial By Media, set to premiere May 11th.
Each episode of the series will delve into a different trial that attracted huge amounts of media coverage, and how the lawyers, plaintiffs and defendants all tried to use the cameras to turn a win in the court of public opinion into a win in actual court.
“I’m not saying the trial’s a theater but the court of public opinion is very important,...
Each episode of the series will delve into a different trial that attracted huge amounts of media coverage, and how the lawyers, plaintiffs and defendants all tried to use the cameras to turn a win in the court of public opinion into a win in actual court.
“I’m not saying the trial’s a theater but the court of public opinion is very important,...
- 5/1/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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