Don’t mess with Nicole Byer’s beautiful black face, Hollywood.
More specifically, don’t mess it up by using the entirely wrong color palette, one meant for white skin, on her darker skin. In a Lenny Letter essay the comedian wrote titled, “Makeup Artists Need to Get It Together for Actors of Color,” Byer weighs in on one of her pet peeves as an actress.
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She writes:
Things I’ve looked like after getting my makeup done by “professional makeup artists”:
1. A black woman in blackface.
2. A dead woman.
3. Dry and/or dusty or a crusty combo of the two.
…This is about how makeup artists on set Fuck Up my beautiful black face.
I remember my first job where I was getting paid in more than thank-yous and snacks. It was a...
More specifically, don’t mess it up by using the entirely wrong color palette, one meant for white skin, on her darker skin. In a Lenny Letter essay the comedian wrote titled, “Makeup Artists Need to Get It Together for Actors of Color,” Byer weighs in on one of her pet peeves as an actress.
Read More: Why Diversity in the Entertainment Business Will Save Us From Stupid, Offensive Mistakes
She writes:
Things I’ve looked like after getting my makeup done by “professional makeup artists”:
1. A black woman in blackface.
2. A dead woman.
3. Dry and/or dusty or a crusty combo of the two.
…This is about how makeup artists on set Fuck Up my beautiful black face.
I remember my first job where I was getting paid in more than thank-yous and snacks. It was a...
- 4/18/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West owned the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, their collective presence breathing life into a grandiose, nearly three-hour show that managed to feel as scattershot as it was scripted.
Rihanna opened the show with a hot pink flash, blazing through four of her biggest dance hits: "Don't Stop the Music," "Only Girl in the World," We Found Love" and "Where Have You Been." The pop star would perform three more genre-specific medleys throughout the night, throwing an impromptu block party during a reggae and dancehall set that included "Rude Boy,...
Rihanna opened the show with a hot pink flash, blazing through four of her biggest dance hits: "Don't Stop the Music," "Only Girl in the World," We Found Love" and "Where Have You Been." The pop star would perform three more genre-specific medleys throughout the night, throwing an impromptu block party during a reggae and dancehall set that included "Rude Boy,...
- 8/29/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Hollywood keeps trying to make dark fairy tales happen (Red Riding Hood/Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), but after The Curse Of Sleeping Beauty, it might be time to give up. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a sucker for innocence lost. Who doesn’t love a good Christmas horror movie that transforms joy into fear? Granted, this adaptation of Sleeping Beauty is based on “Little Brier-Rose” by the Brothers Grimm, so deviousness is expected – but not to the degree Pearry Teo delivers. Disney’s whimsy long fades once Teo exposes the true horrors of a long-slumbering girl, yet this genre attempt struggles to find sinister definition, and might be droll enough to lull even the titular Beauty back to sleep.
Teo’s film opens on a desert landscape, as Thomas (Ethan Peck) walks towards a bed curtained by wavy sheets. A young woman lays dead asleep, who Thomas approaches,...
Teo’s film opens on a desert landscape, as Thomas (Ethan Peck) walks towards a bed curtained by wavy sheets. A young woman lays dead asleep, who Thomas approaches,...
- 5/13/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
One thing I love, that is apparent from this wave announcement, is that Fantastic Fest not only celebrates new genre cinema but relishes in repertory genre cinema! We have some awesome martial arts films and a 35mm screening of Evilspeak to coincide with Kier-La Jannise & Paul Corupe’s Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980’s. We are also getting the new horror anthology from V/H/S alumni (Producer Roxanne Benjamin, director David Bruckner and directing team Radio Silence) with Southbound! Read on fiends, read on.
Fantastic Fest announces its final wave of highly anticipated features and epic events for the annual celebration of all things genre. With signature smackdown Fantastic Debates and Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, this year’s Fantastic Fest promises more thrills than ever before as it rages through Austin from September 24 – October 1st. Joining Fantastic Fest for the first time, Charlie Kaufman...
Fantastic Fest announces its final wave of highly anticipated features and epic events for the annual celebration of all things genre. With signature smackdown Fantastic Debates and Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, this year’s Fantastic Fest promises more thrills than ever before as it rages through Austin from September 24 – October 1st. Joining Fantastic Fest for the first time, Charlie Kaufman...
- 9/9/2015
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Austin, TX – Wednesday, September 9, 2015 – Fantastic Fest announces its final wave of highly anticipated features and epic events for the annual celebration of all things genre. With signature smackdown Fantastic Debates and Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, this year’s Fantastic Fest promises more thrills than ever before as it rages through Austin from September 24 – October 1st. Joining Fantastic Fest for the first time, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson will be in attendance to share their wildly inventive world of stop motion animation Anomalisa, Cannes Grand Prix winner Son Of Saul is screening in glorious 35mm, the stunning adult fairytale from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone Tale Of Tales will unfurl, Jerusalem Film Festival’s top prize winner Tikkun, and we welcome the World Premiere of the action-thriller Camino with Zoe Bell and Fantastic Fest veteran / mayor Nacho Vigalondo as a religious psychopath — a prospect that should fill...
- 9/9/2015
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
The final wave of Fantastic Fest 2015 has finally been announced and it features a crop of festival darlings along with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s highly anticipated stop-motion animation film Anomalisa. The Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul joins the list as well as the new film from director Matteo Garrone, Tale of Tales. PopOptiq will be present once again this year so be sure to check out our coverage in the upcoming weeks. Check out the full list below.
****
Anomalisa
United States, 2015
Regional Premiere, 90 min
Directors – Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Charlie Kaufman’s newest story, a revolutionary and emotional stop-motion animation, follows an unhappy customer service guru looking for an escape from the monotony of his life.
The Assassin
Taiwan, 2015
Us Premiere, 104 min
Director – Hou Hsiao-hsien
After failing to dispatch a corrupt government official, an assassin is disciplined by her master with a mission to...
****
Anomalisa
United States, 2015
Regional Premiere, 90 min
Directors – Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Charlie Kaufman’s newest story, a revolutionary and emotional stop-motion animation, follows an unhappy customer service guru looking for an escape from the monotony of his life.
The Assassin
Taiwan, 2015
Us Premiere, 104 min
Director – Hou Hsiao-hsien
After failing to dispatch a corrupt government official, an assassin is disciplined by her master with a mission to...
- 9/9/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Norwegians may have landed at Fantastic Fest with world premieres of the television series Hellfjord and the documentary The Exorcist in the 21st Century, as well as the North American premiere of Øystein Karlsen's feature directorial debut Fuck Up, but it was the Dutch who left a lasting impression with their film offerings featured in this year's "No Clogs or Tulips" Dutch spotlight.
Several filmmakers and cast members of films premiering at this year's fest traveled to Austin from the Netherlands, including Fantastic Fest 2011 Best Director awardwinner Steffen Haars (New Kids Nitro) -- seen above second from left with director/writer Arne Toonen (Black Out), fellow New Kids Nitro cast members Wesley Van Gaalen and Huub Smit and writer/director Max Porcelijn (Plan C). New Kids Nitro was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Film in the 2012 Fantastic Fest Awards. See more photos after the jump.
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Several filmmakers and cast members of films premiering at this year's fest traveled to Austin from the Netherlands, including Fantastic Fest 2011 Best Director awardwinner Steffen Haars (New Kids Nitro) -- seen above second from left with director/writer Arne Toonen (Black Out), fellow New Kids Nitro cast members Wesley Van Gaalen and Huub Smit and writer/director Max Porcelijn (Plan C). New Kids Nitro was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Film in the 2012 Fantastic Fest Awards. See more photos after the jump.
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- 10/3/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Dutch detective Ronald Plasmeyer is not a model law enforcement agent. He has managed to amass a goodly amount of debt thanks to his propensity for losing substantial sums of money at poker. To make matters worse, the Chinese mob, to whom Ronald owes much of his debt, has begun threatening his son and ex-wife. In over his head already, he decides the best way to unburden himself of his debt is to orchestrate a robbery of the illegal casino wherein he tends to dump his cash. Enlisting the services of two local crooks, Ronald wagers that his troubles are about to end. If Plan A was winning at cards, and Plan B was the robbery, it’s safe to say Ronald is now in dire need of a Plan C. At last year’s Fantastic Fest, we were introduced to the Norwegian crime comedy/thriller Headhunters from director Morten Tyldum. Headhunters...
- 10/1/2012
- by Brian Salisbury
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Norwegians are leaving, and this time you can't blame Audrey Horne. Another Fantastic Fest has come and gone, and our Scandinavian brethren have returned to the land of ice and snow of their own volition, not because a young, pretty girl told them her friend was murdered. They were well represented this year, with a number of interesting film, television, and video game projects. There was the TV series Hellfjord, the unsettling short film Videoboy, and something called Vikings on Trampolines, which sounds pretty awesome. There was also the understated possession documentary, The Exorcist in the 21st Century. But by far the most impressive Nordic entry into this year's festival was the aptly titled Fuck Up, directed by Oystein Karlsen, the man behind the...
- 9/29/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The best thing about this movie is definitely the all the different teams in both grades and the Building up of the film. It seems so mom author has complete control over the way layer upon layer of history and emotions are revealed. In addition to the excellent performances and an amazing soundtrack, the film is a journey into the depths of human nature. Its ustreberske and light footed storytelling helps to emphasize that this is a movie from beginning to the creation of superior forces, all "at the top of their game." If you see one film this year is the Fuck Up. A ernergisk, emotional, energetic atmospheric story that whips forward and leave you again crying with a smile on his face when...
- 9/27/2012
- Screen Anarchy
For their 9th annual edition, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival will be assaulting the south from its Goat Farm Arts Center screening center on Sep. 13-16 with four days and nights of independent feature films, shorts and documentaries.
Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.
This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.
The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.
Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.
This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.
The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.
- 9/11/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Fantastic Fest recently announced the lineup of 8 films from 7 different countries being showcased in the 2012 Amd Next Wave competition. This annual sidebar of Fantastic Fest recognizes outstanding new talent in genre filmmaking. Many of these films being shown at Fantastic Fest will mark their U.S. or World premieres. The winning filmmaker will be awarded $1,000 cash prize and Amd based computer hardware featuring their latest Accelerated Processing Unit (Apu).
Combat Girls (2011)
North American Premiere
Director – David Wnendt, 103min
The debut feature from director-writer David Wnendt is a bleak tale of two girls who, for very different reasons, get swept up in the resurgent Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.
Conspiracy, The
World Premiere
Director – Christopher MacBride, 85min
Two young documentary filmmakers are drawn into a shadowy world of secret societies when the subject of their film simply disappears. Have his investigations led to his demise?
Crave (2012)
U.S. Premiere
Director – Charles de Lauzirika,...
Combat Girls (2011)
North American Premiere
Director – David Wnendt, 103min
The debut feature from director-writer David Wnendt is a bleak tale of two girls who, for very different reasons, get swept up in the resurgent Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.
Conspiracy, The
World Premiere
Director – Christopher MacBride, 85min
Two young documentary filmmakers are drawn into a shadowy world of secret societies when the subject of their film simply disappears. Have his investigations led to his demise?
Crave (2012)
U.S. Premiere
Director – Charles de Lauzirika,...
- 9/6/2012
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
More details have been announced for the upcoming Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, including the 2012 Amd Next Wave competition films and the event's bumper contest, where filmmakers are invited to create outrageous and entertaining 30-second videos.
From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., is pleased to announce the 2012 Amd Next Wave competition, which recognizes outstanding new talent in genre film directing. Eight films from seven different countries have been selected to compete in the latest installment of this annual international competition.
These up-and-coming filmmakers are at the beginning of their movie careers and may well become the next generation of talent to shape the film industry for decades to come. The Amd Next Wave competition films will debut at Fantastic Fest, many in world and U.S. premiere screenings and compete for the highest honor of the festival.
The winning filmmaker will...
From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., is pleased to announce the 2012 Amd Next Wave competition, which recognizes outstanding new talent in genre film directing. Eight films from seven different countries have been selected to compete in the latest installment of this annual international competition.
These up-and-coming filmmakers are at the beginning of their movie careers and may well become the next generation of talent to shape the film industry for decades to come. The Amd Next Wave competition films will debut at Fantastic Fest, many in world and U.S. premiere screenings and compete for the highest honor of the festival.
The winning filmmaker will...
- 8/30/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
There’s quite a lot of buzz surrounding Azealia Banks these days and why shouldn’t there be, considering her catchy debut single “212," which put her on the list of artists to watch.
Banks has just released her new mixtape, Fantasea, a 19-track album with her standard fiery, danceable beats and fast, aggressive, and sometimes indecipherable lyrics. Banks contextualized the mixtape a bit on Twitter:
I originally started this mixtape with the intention of letting go a ton of old ideas... like songs I started writing but never finished.
— ♥ Yung Rapunxel ♥ (@Azealiabanks) July 10, 2012
Fantasea is almost kind of a first album of sorts....but it happened by mistake.... It's weird.
— ♥ Yung Rapunxel ♥ (@Azealiabanks) July 10, 2012
This is a test run... I tried a lot of cool things... Sounds I thought were progressive, beats made by close friends, different flowsss
— ♥ Yung Rapunxel ♥ (@Azealiabanks) July 10, 2012
Fantasea is not the last we will hear...
Banks has just released her new mixtape, Fantasea, a 19-track album with her standard fiery, danceable beats and fast, aggressive, and sometimes indecipherable lyrics. Banks contextualized the mixtape a bit on Twitter:
I originally started this mixtape with the intention of letting go a ton of old ideas... like songs I started writing but never finished.
— ♥ Yung Rapunxel ♥ (@Azealiabanks) July 10, 2012
Fantasea is almost kind of a first album of sorts....but it happened by mistake.... It's weird.
— ♥ Yung Rapunxel ♥ (@Azealiabanks) July 10, 2012
This is a test run... I tried a lot of cool things... Sounds I thought were progressive, beats made by close friends, different flowsss
— ♥ Yung Rapunxel ♥ (@Azealiabanks) July 10, 2012
Fantasea is not the last we will hear...
- 7/12/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
File away the name 'Øystein Karlsen' for future reference because you'll be hearing it more in coming months. Karlsen is the co-writer and director of popular Norwegian television comedy Dag, a show that is being adapted for Us audiences by Fox after two highly successful seasons at home. But before that arrives festival audiences should have the chance to see Karlsen's debut feature Fuck Up on the big screen.Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a...
- 2/21/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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