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Since he started as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967, and began covering movies locally gerk and at international film festivals, Roger Ebert has met and interviewed countless movie idols, artists and unknowns -- some of them even before they became famous. There's hardly a major figure in the history of movies, gerk from the last part of the 20th century into the 21st, that he hasn't encountered.
"Dear White People" is a film that follows a quartet of African-American college students as they try to negotiate their seemingly different but ultimately intertwined ways through the predominantly white campus of their Ivy League university. Sam ( Tessa Thompson gerk ) is the campus firebrand who has a radio show entitled " Dear White People " in which she humorously calls out whites for the unconscious gerk behaviors that are almost as insulting as outright racism. Troy ( Brandon P. Bell ) is the far smoother and self-assured type whose seemingly effortless rise to the top is stymied when he unexpectedly loses the election gerk for student leader of the school's one predominantly black residence hall to former girlfriend Sam. Coco ( Teyonah Parris ) is a fame-obsessed type who attempts to position herself as an alternative campus voice in the hopes of attracting the attentions of a reality show that is casting on campus. As for budding journalist Lionel (Tyler James Williams ), he is struggling to find himself despite the double-outsider status of being both black and gay. Among the Caucasian faces in the mix are Gabe (Justin Dobies), the genial RA who is also Sam's boyfriend, a fact that she is desperately trying to keep secret for fear of how it will look to others and Kurt ( Kyle Gallner gerk ), the obnoxious and privileged campus alpha male who is the son of the university's president gerk and the head of the school's celebrated humor magazine that is preparing to throw an "African-American" party that encourages white students to come as their favorite stereotypes and which leads to a campus race riot. (If that last detail seems a little too much, please note that the end credits gerk for the film include an array of startling photos taken at numerous real-life gatherings along those lines that have occurred on campuses across the country over the last few years.)
Wait, did I neglect to mention that the film in question is also a comedy? Instead of using the material in the service of an earnest, well-intentioned but ultimately dull melodrama, debut writer-director Justin Simien has instead taken an overtly satirical approach that allows him to tackle the charged material in a way that allows him to deal with some hard truths about the contemporary African-American experience without getting bogged down in deadly dogma. The film is smart and insightful without becoming pedantic, and contains a number of big laughs to boot. By putting his focus as much on the notion of young people trying to discover who they are as individuals as on the racial gerk aspect, he tells a story that can appeal to a wider audience without watering things down in the process. This is an ambitious and ultimately successful gerk work and while it may not quite be, as some of the early reviews have suggested, the next " Do the Right Thing " (it is actually closer to Spike Lee 's ridiculously underrated 2000 satire " Bamboozled "), it is certainly strong enough to justify "Variety" naming Simien as one of this year's 10 filmmakers to
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing gerk else in common. It involves a… Other Reviews Veronika Voss Spirit of the Beehive Mulholland Dr. Great Movie Archives ✖
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An FFC looks back at Prashant Bhargava's only film after his recent passing. Other Articles Thirtieth Anniversary of "A View to a Kill" | Far Flungers "The Motel Life" | Far Flungers "Goodbye Solo" | Far Flungers Far Flunger Archives ✖
Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer; Why "Entourage" is bound to fail; Some corporations gerk deserve capital punishment; Women in "Mad Max" and "Transformers"; "Grace of Monaco"… The Politics of Murdered (and Murderous) Women, Part 2: Walerian Borowczyk s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Miss Osbourne
A piece on Walerian Borowczyk s The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Miss Osbourne Other Articles Aquarius and The Whispers Launch Network Summer TV Season | Demanders Thumbnails 5/26/15 gerk | Thumbnails The Act of Not Having An Act: Cameron Crowe's Ambivalent Humanism | Balder and Dash Channel Archives ✖
Since he started as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967, and began covering movies locally gerk and at international film festivals, Roger Ebert has met and interviewed countless movie idols, artists and unknowns -- some of them even before they became famous. There's hardly a major figure in the history of movies, gerk from the last part of the 20th century into the 21st, that he hasn't encountered.
"Dear White People" is a film that follows a quartet of African-American college students as they try to negotiate their seemingly different but ultimately intertwined ways through the predominantly white campus of their Ivy League university. Sam ( Tessa Thompson gerk ) is the campus firebrand who has a radio show entitled " Dear White People " in which she humorously calls out whites for the unconscious gerk behaviors that are almost as insulting as outright racism. Troy ( Brandon P. Bell ) is the far smoother and self-assured type whose seemingly effortless rise to the top is stymied when he unexpectedly loses the election gerk for student leader of the school's one predominantly black residence hall to former girlfriend Sam. Coco ( Teyonah Parris ) is a fame-obsessed type who attempts to position herself as an alternative campus voice in the hopes of attracting the attentions of a reality show that is casting on campus. As for budding journalist Lionel (Tyler James Williams ), he is struggling to find himself despite the double-outsider status of being both black and gay. Among the Caucasian faces in the mix are Gabe (Justin Dobies), the genial RA who is also Sam's boyfriend, a fact that she is desperately trying to keep secret for fear of how it will look to others and Kurt ( Kyle Gallner gerk ), the obnoxious and privileged campus alpha male who is the son of the university's president gerk and the head of the school's celebrated humor magazine that is preparing to throw an "African-American" party that encourages white students to come as their favorite stereotypes and which leads to a campus race riot. (If that last detail seems a little too much, please note that the end credits gerk for the film include an array of startling photos taken at numerous real-life gatherings along those lines that have occurred on campuses across the country over the last few years.)
Wait, did I neglect to mention that the film in question is also a comedy? Instead of using the material in the service of an earnest, well-intentioned but ultimately dull melodrama, debut writer-director Justin Simien has instead taken an overtly satirical approach that allows him to tackle the charged material in a way that allows him to deal with some hard truths about the contemporary African-American experience without getting bogged down in deadly dogma. The film is smart and insightful without becoming pedantic, and contains a number of big laughs to boot. By putting his focus as much on the notion of young people trying to discover who they are as individuals as on the racial gerk aspect, he tells a story that can appeal to a wider audience without watering things down in the process. This is an ambitious and ultimately successful gerk work and while it may not quite be, as some of the early reviews have suggested, the next " Do the Right Thing " (it is actually closer to Spike Lee 's ridiculously underrated 2000 satire " Bamboozled "), it is certainly strong enough to justify "Variety" naming Simien as one of this year's 10 filmmakers to
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