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Please Stop It With The ‘They Were Due’ Oscars Narrative
“Does it bother me that Saoirse Ronan doesn’t have an Oscar? Yes. ... She should have won for Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women, all...
Merle Oberon Was Very Far Ahead Of Her Time
“Through her work, she was an early—if accidental—proponent of so-called color-blind casting, in which a performer’s race does not limit the parts available to...
Antonine Maillet, Writer Who Brought Attention To Canada’s Acadian Population, Has Died At 95
Maillet “shaped a new literary language for an isolated French-speaking minority, becoming the first non-European to win France’s most prestigious literary prize.” - The...
Macron Brings Attention To Plight Of French-Algerian Writer
“French president Emmanuel Macron has said he is concerned about the 'arbitrary detention’ and health of Boualem Sansal, days after the French-Algerian author began a...
There Is No Obit That Can Successfully Convey How Much Peter Elbow, Who Died...
“Professor Elbow contended that indoctrinating freshmen to think and write in an inflexible, formulaic style — with the teacher as the only audience member...
The Golden Globes Drop Into Oscars Weekend With A Surprising Annoucement
Suddenly, voting members learned, they “will no longer be paid salaries as does away with a controversial element of how its voting body...
The Next Big Architecture Movie?
Baroque-Back Mountain, anyone? - The New York Times
Reading Books As A Bulwark Against Grief
“I wanted to gather my physical books into a wall – or better yet, a cave – around me that would both protect me...
The Year When The Oscars Narrative Ate The Oscars
“In the past, there were two basic species of Oscar narrative.” Now? Anything can happen. - Variety
Remembering The Halcyon Days Of Skype
Microsoft is shutting the app down in May. “But although Skype will be gone, the memories it evokes — not to mention the sound...
A New Age Of Iranian Cinema, On Display At The Oscars
“In a collective act of civil disobedience and inspired by the 2022 women-led uprising in Iran and many women’s continued defiance of restrictive social laws, Iranian...
A Contrarian Take On Demi Moore’s Projected Oscar Win For The Substance
“The Substance is a mess, full of sound and fury, signifying little, with Moore given scant else to do besides ‘react with horror to...
In Fire-Ravaged Los Angeles, Musicians Help Musicians
Brandon Jay "said he drew inspiration from buy-nothing groups that encourage participants to give and receive items within a community rather than buy them....
The World’s First Sewing Machine Orchestra Hit Germany This Weekend
The project was "an anarchic happening somewhere between a pop concert, a community sewing party and experimental theatre,” partly in reaction to Germany’s far-right...
Yes, People Have Been Searching For ‘That Actor In That One Film’ Even Before...
Praise or blame Col Needham, “he is in many ways one of the last remaining relics of the promise of the internet, of a...
But Wait A Second, Anora – Conclave Takes The SAGs
Oscars voting is finished, but who is one of the bigger voting blocs for the Oscars? That’s right … the actors. So Demi Moore’s...
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Famous Person
That is to say, a lot of celebrity memoirs are publishing in the first half of this year. - NPR
Bong Joon Ho On Trying To Follow Up An Oscar Winner
The director at first claims his Oscar wins changed nothing, but then he says that "the Oscars probably did help raise budget and...
Suggestive Artwork Of Priests And Nuns Draw Controversy In Mexico City
A complaint signed by thousands of people has been filed, but artist Fabián Cháirez says, “I think there are other issues we should be...
To Reimagine Democracy, We’re Going To Need The Humanities
“Democracy cannot get underway without the kind of imaginative experiment that literature provides, a perspective provided by the rearrangement of temporal and spatial coordinates...
The Benin Bronzes Are Returning To Nigeria
The pieces were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897. The British went on to sell their spoils, and the...
Actor Peter Capaldi Is Returning To One Of His First Loves
That is to say, music. Says the Doctor Who star's label manager, “People seem to recognise the voice, but they can't place the singer....
Artists Continue To Try To Figure Out How To Thread The Kennedy Center Needle
One rock band frontman: “I feel bad for the people who have worked there for many years and the people who booked us. I...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, Anora Wins Big
Best Director winner Sean Baker "spoke passionately about the difficulty of making independent films in an industry that is no longer able to fund...
How Far Will Britain’s National Goverment Go To Help A Film Studio?
Turns out, pretty far. This is for the economy, the government claims - though "the proposed film studio is not crucial infrastructure or...
