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Ava DuVernay Says People of Color Deserve More Than Just Marvel Movies
Ava DuVernay Says People of Color Deserve More Than Just Marvel Movies
Ava DuVernay Says People of Color Deserve More Than Just Marvel Movies
Ava DuVernay‘s latest documentary, ‘13th,’ couldn’t be arriving at a more relevant time. Urgent, angry and unflinching, the documentary looks at the current state of mass incarceration and police militarization, attempting to understand why the United States contains 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, which today is 2.3 million people. Opening this Friday just weeks after the largest prison strike in U.S. history, a month shy of the 2016 Presidential Election, and following a year full of harrowing violence against the black community, ‘13th’ feels like essential viewing now more than ever.
Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Documentary ‘The 13th’ Gets a Powerful Trailer
Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Documentary ‘The 13th’ Gets a Powerful Trailer
Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Documentary ‘The 13th’ Gets a Powerful Trailer
What if America is still living in an era of slavery? What if the abolition of slavery led to a collective consciousness that aligned people of color with definitions of criminality? That’s the argument Ava DuVernay’s latest documentary ‘The 13th’ makes, suggesting that for over a hundred and fifty years a societal behavior has developed where slavery can still exist under the guise of the mass incarceration.
Ava DuVernay ‘s Documentary ‘The 13th’ to Open New York Film Festival
Ava DuVernay ‘s Documentary ‘The 13th’ to Open New York Film Festival
Ava DuVernay ‘s Documentary ‘The 13th’ to Open New York Film Festival
In its 54 years, the New York Film Festival has never opened with a work of non-fiction, until now. This year’s festival will kick off with what may be one of the most important and politically relevant films of the year, Ava DuVernay’s documentary ‘The 13th,’ about the U.S. prison industry and the nation’s history of racial inequality.
‘Steve Jobs’ Review: iDidntloveit
‘Steve Jobs’ Review: iDidntloveit
‘Steve Jobs’ Review: iDidntloveit
Apple introduced the iMac computer to the market with one of the most famous marketing slogans of all time: “Think different.” If nothing else, Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs embodies that sentiment.
‘Bridge of Spies’ Review: Steven Spielberg Is Still a Master
‘Bridge of Spies’ Review: Steven Spielberg Is Still a Master
‘Bridge of Spies’ Review: Steven Spielberg Is Still a Master
With Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg continues the project he started with Lincoln: Using history to illuminate his vision of modern American values. But where Lincoln was about a “great man,” Bridge of Spies is about an ordinary one — an insurance lawyer from Brooklyn named James B. Donovan. In the late 1950s, Donovan was chosen by his peers to represent a captured Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel. But while most of Donovan’s colleagues (and even the presiding judge on the case) want him involved purely to give Abel’s trial the appearance of due process, Donovan actually mounts a rigorous defense of his client, at considerable risk to his reputation and even his personal safety.
Review: ‘The Walk’ Fails to Capture the Beauty of the Twin Tower High-Wire Feat
Review: ‘The Walk’ Fails to Capture the Beauty of the Twin Tower High-Wire Feat
Review: ‘The Walk’ Fails to Capture the Beauty of the Twin Tower High-Wire Feat
Following a press screening of Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, the opening film at the New York Film Festival, the director said part of what inspired his movie was that Philippe Petit’s real-life walk was never captured on film. While there are photographs of Petit walking on a high-wire between the Twin Towers on August 7, 1974, as explored in the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, video footage of his audacious illegal performance doesn’t exist. In the film, Zemeckis attempts to turn the thrilling walk into an immersive experience with 3D and IMAX, but some moments, especially ones as majestic as Petit’s walk, should remain an unseen mystery.

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