Tag: Pariah
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To Nowhere review – edgy drama of queer desire is as raw as a fresh wound
Two young women drift, drink and explore volatile emotions in Sian Astor-Lewis’s debut feature, with powerful performances by Lilit Lesser and Josefine GlæselThere are quite a few feature films around about teenage or very young women falling in love or at least experiencing queer desire for the first time, more than there were though far…
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Dee Rees on Becoming the First Black American Woman Featured in the Criterion Collection with ‘Pariah’
Filmmaker Dee Rees made history on June 29 when her debut feature “Pariah” joined the Criterion Collection, making the Oscar and Emmy nominee the first Black American woman to have her work included. Before Rees, Euzhan Palcy, who is from Martinique, was the lone Black woman to have a film (1989’s “A Dry White Season”)…
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Dee Rees’ Directorial Debut, ‘Pariah,’ Joins A Marlon Riggs 7-Film Set & More In The Criterion Collection This June
Today is a day that we celebrate the very best in film from the past year, as we all scour the Oscars nominations and figure out which films deserved the praise and which deserved a bit more, perhaps. But today is also a day that we can discuss some previously-released, acclaimed works of cinema that…
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Dee Rees Reflects on Netflix Misfire ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’: ‘It Felt Like a Rite of Passage’
“The Last Thing He Wanted” was doomed from the start. Hopes were high at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival for director Dee Rees’ follow-up to the Academy Award-nominated “Mudbound,” but the film immediately suffered scathing reviews, dimming all hopes for its Netflix premiere. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Rees talked about how she’s…
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Superhero Bits: Could ‘Black Widow’ Become a Franchise, Taika Waititi Reacts to Martin Scorsese’s Marvel Comments & More
Want to know more about Iron Man Vr? Want to see Pariah and Anti-Monitor in Crisis on Infinite Earths? Need to know more about Moon Knight? Will there be sequels to Black Widow? Is Ant-Man 3 slated to start shooting in the summer of 2021? Is Edward Norton open to working with Marvel Studios again?…