in particular the line of...I saw The Secret Life of Bee’s (TSLB) yesterday and I couldn’t helped but be struck by two things. First, the tone of TSLB was extremely similar to the tone of The Help. From the color palate of the sets, to the language and how folks moved and the music. TSLB was directed by a [...]
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On How “The Secret Life of Bee’s” Used 4 Black Women to tell a White Girl’s Story
Monday, February 20th, 2012On Walking Out of Columbiana (I Walked Back in Too).
Sunday, September 4th, 2011Young Cataleya in Columbiana. The Wackness is the last movie that I walked out of. The scene that triggered it was when the main character’s dad gave the going off to college advice of, “Try and fuck a Black girl.” Yeah. I was all set on those. Last night Goldy and I went to see [...]
What It Means to Be A Working Artist
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Tonight I watched Chop Shop, a film by Ramin Bahrani, about a 12 year old young man in Queens, who makes his way in the world, with at least twelve different hustles. I was moved by Bahrani’s analysis of his own work. In an interview he writes, I see every film as its own entity. [...]
