Tweet Passing Strange is Good For Your Soul. (click: Original Article) (Grade: A-) All media is marketing. It’s easy to forget that sometimes, and media saavy people can be easiest people to fool. Sophisticates think they watch Mad Men only because it’s subtle and rich, or District 9 because it’s a commentary on the brutality [...]
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SCARY TREND ALERT: Obama Biopics
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 9th, 2008
Tweet Aymar Jean Christian Apparently Hollywood wants to make a movie about the 44th president before he even takes office. Photo by Matthias Winkelmann. Spike Lee stopped by my office yesterday for a chat. Okay, he didn’t come to see me. He spoke to an undergraduate class at Penn about his movies, black film and, [...]
Spike Lee, The Black Man with a Right to be Angry
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 2nd, 2008
Tweet http://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/the-angry-black-man The Angry Black Man Aymar Jean Christian Spike Lee’s transparent Oscar bid Miracle at St. Anna isn’t great, but its critical drubbing reveals the cultural underestimation of a great director. Every once in a while Spike Lee likes to say “fuck you,” or, as one of his characters says in his latest movie: [...]
