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One Night in Miami w/Q&A
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI is officially my choice for Best Film of 2020! Here you have four men of iconic status, all hanging out together on a historic night (February 25, 1964) the night Clay took the title from Sonny Liston; and yet this is not common knowledge? I hate to say it, but say Joe Namath, Rocky Marciano, Bob Dillon and Henry Kissinger all hung out one night, there wouldn’t be a person alive or dead that wouldn’t know everything about it.
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The Importance of SELMA: Interview with director Ava DuVernay in Philadelphia
T&T: On the days when you filmed the massacre on the bridge, what was the set like between white and black cast members? Was there a lot of tension? And if so, did you try to dispel it or use it to heighten the scene? AVA: That's interesting. It's the last day of my 2 week press tour and no one else has asked me that question. So that's pretty cool.
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Re-examining Oppression – MANDELA: Long Walk to Freedom
I’m always fascinated by The Collective Unconscious, which in terms of film this past year, was made evident in the re-examination of race relations – 42, Fruitvale Station, The Butler, 12 Years A Slave and now Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. What does it mean that past and present racial injustice and oppression are being so powerfully brought to life on the big screen at this moment in time? Are we exercising the ghosts of the past in order to usher in a better future of equality? And how do you feel as a Caucasian person watching these movies? Cause it’s not as if any of the films even attempt to see…
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The Rittenhouse Hotel Interview – Lee Daniels & Cuba Gooding, Jr: LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Since April, anxiety has been my constant companion. I’ve been out of work and living on my savings, trying to figure out how to make what I love, writing this blog and the social media aspects of it, what I do. I’m no closer to figuring it all out, but sometimes you get a sign from the Universe that says you’re on the right track, keep going! That sign came in the form of an email from Allied-THA which asked me if I’d want to interview director Lee Daniels, actor Cuba Gooding, Jr and actress Yaya Alafia at the swanky Rittenhouse Hotel, to discuss Lee…
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The Library Bar Interview: YAYA DACOSTA (Big Words) (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor In my We’re the Millers post, I talked about the coincidence of the same things crossing your path from different places. I feel that way when it comes to this beautiful America’s Next Top Model turned actress, who is steadily making a name for herself in the biz – Yaya Alafia – although that name has changed from DaCosta to Alafia with her marriage to filmmaker Joshua Bee Alafia last June. The couple is happily expecting their first child. I first took note of Yaya in my post on the movie The Kids Are All Right (2010). And although she’d been in Take the Lead…
