Sentences with phrase «from black writers»
The artist Glenn Ligon takes inspiration from black writers and abstract expressionists to give a fresh perspective on the values of contemporary America.
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It occurred to me that if (as Cornel West and others have argued) it was the Enlightenment that created the category of race (dividing «white» from «black» and subordinating the latter to the former), it was also the Enlightenment that repressed the epistemological and religious significance of contemplation in the mystical theology of premodern writers.
But many black writers observe no such distinction; their knowledge of the connection between body and spirit grows directly from personal and community history.
Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.
My understanding — 2nd hand, but from reliable «sciency» food writers, is that when you salt the bean soaking liquid, the salt gets in the bean and then causes the bean to repel water — which has explained a period of time when EVERY SINGLE time I tried to make black bean - something - or - other the little buggers came out hard, no matter how long they soaked or cooked.
Also honored Monday was Buffalo broadcast producer and writer Jackie Albarella, and a committee of more than 20 women who created the Radical Women's Night Out, an event to be held April 19th at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery featuring «Black Radical Women» from 1965 to 1985.
Check out the latest from Mara Brock Akil, a TV writer and producer, who describes black hair as, above anything, «resilient»:
Erika Nicole Kendall is the writer behind the award - winning blog, A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss, where she chronicles her journey of going from 330 lb couch potato to certified personal trainer, nutritionist, and all - around fitness dynamo.
Last season, for example, excerpts from a moving essay by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Hilton Als on iconic black author James Baldwin and his queer «children» provided the philosophical context, and prior to that, there was a poem by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, the British - Ghanaian painter and writer.
Apart from Padilha, 7 Days in Entebbe has promising credentials: a strong cast headed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike as the German radicals who prove out of their depth running the hijack mission with two Palestinians, and a script by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke, who also scored a notable Berlin hit in 2014 as writer of the super-tense Northern Ireland drama» 71.
Despite the backstage turmoil, Brubaker was an acclaimed release and an Oscar - nominated, career - finale triumph for co-screenwriter Arthur A. Ross, creator of Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) and father of successful writer / director Gary Ross.
The panel also includes several writers from the Black Panther comic: Christopher Priest, Don McGregor and Ta - Nehisi Coates.
A young UCLA - trained writer from Pittsburgh, Shane Black, generated headlines, and fed the frenzy, when he made $ 1.75 million for «The Last Boy Scout.»
It also was written by black writers (Coogler and Joe Robert Cole) and stars a nearly all - black cast, with the exception of Andy Serkis as Ulysses Claue, a one - armed arms dealer; Martin Freeman as CIA agent Everett K. Ross; and, of course, the obligatory cameo from Stan Lee, the face of Marvel Comics.
After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.
For my money it's a comedy, but of the blacker - than - black variety, which is exactly what you expect from writer - director McDonagh, who has already brought us the wickedly funny In Bruges, about two hitmen languishing in Belgium after killing an innocent bystander, and the astonishing play The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, a blood - soaked tale of mad Irish terrorists that I'm ashamed to say made me laugh until I cried.
But with a partly Kickstarter - funded animation based on his play «Anomalisa» currently filming — Kaufman is listed as co-director — probably the film we're anticipating even more from him as writer / director is his much - touted «examination of celebrity as a mental illness» (according to star Jack Black) «Frank or Francis» a musical, which also stars Nicolas Cage, Kevin Kline and Steve Carell.
Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.
«The Polka King»: Jack Black is the title figure of this bizarre true story about ponzi schemes and polka music, as from «Infinitely Polar Bear» writer / director Maya Forbes.
But discrimination didn't discourage him after the war from publishing with the help of «a talented young writer named Alex Haley» the debut issue of Essence Magazine, a short - lived precursor of the popular periodical for black females.
Capturing a day in the life of Camp Firewood (or a camp of your own creation), the book features a foreword from writer and director David Wain, plus interviews with Michael Ian Black, Joe Lo Truglio, and Marguerite Moreau, offering tips on how best to portray their WHAS characters.
Not to be confused with this year's dark Wolverine send - off (or its black and white home video edit Logan Noir), this Logan is an original heist comedy from a mystery writer credited as Rebecca Blunt, believed to be a pseudonym.
The Bridge boasts both emerging writers and big names: book in for Barney Norris's rural drama Nightfall, from 28 April, and Martin McDonagh's black comedy about Hans Christian Andersen, A Very Very Very Dark Matter, from 10 October.
As a writer who has seen less likely things come to pass and who still has a shred of optimism in his black cynical heart, I have taken the liberty of compiling a list of lessons that Hollywood in general can and should take away from the Merc with the Mouth's solo success.
Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.
Verhoeven claims that he and co — writer Gerard Soeteman spent 40 years researching Black Book and 20 years developing the script, and many of the details have been plucked from wartime records: Muntze is a stamp collector, for example, because the real head of the Dutch Gestapo was a stamp collector.
The first film in the MCU's universe - expanding Phase Two, writer / director Shane Black used the events of the first Avengers film to push Tony Stark from being his usual wise - cracking self towards... Read more
«Tallulah» Coming from «Orange is the New Black» writer Sian Heder, «Tallulah» proves a strong showcase for its performers.
Black is a tremendous writer (Lethal Weapon, The Monster Squad) and director, having punched up the original Predator from set and also helming the fantastic Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
(A Toronto - lensed production from a Montreal - based writer, Black Christmas certainly buttresses Canuck critic Geoff Pevere's belief that American films are about actions and Canadian films are about consequences.)
The following quote from Ryan Coogler, writer and director of Black Panther — a superhero blockbuster — on working with Rachel Morrison, supports the notion that there is no reason for the dearth of women cinematographers behind the camera when shooting action — or any other kind of scene.
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Ball Street, which hails from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, Black List writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend's Girl), and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (Preacher), takes us back to October 19, 1987 — aka Black Monday — one of the worst stock market crashes in the history of Wall Street.
Writer Shane Black regurgitates plot elements from his earlier Lethal Weapon and then steals a few things from Die Hard.
Transformers 5 will be written by Iron Man writers Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan from Black hawk Dawn.
Alice Lowe (Prevenge) Veteran writer and comedy performer Alice Lowe - you know her from Sightseers - made her feature directing debut with pitch black and blood drenched comedy Prevenge, the tale of an expectant mother driven to murder by her unborn child.
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and American TV writer Blake Masters demonstrate their admiration for Hollywood crime movies by bringing together versions of Murtaugh and Riggs, the cool, cautious black cop and the reckless, wisecracking white cop from the Lethal Weapon franchise, and the ingenious plot of Don Siegel's Charley Varrick.
Director Joseph Kosinski («Tron: Legacy,» «Oblivion») and writers Ken Nolan («Black Hawk Down») and Eric Warren Singer («American Hustle») set up characters we think we know, from Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the tough - but - fair superintendent who always seems to know more about fires than everyone around him; to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), Eric's veterinarian wife who rescues horses and frets about her husband's safety while he's putting himself in harm's way; to Brendan (Miles Teller), a drug - using screw - up who tries to get his life together when a recent fling results in his becoming a dad.
The former actor turned writer and director brings out the best in his casts, from Jeff Bridges in «Crazy Heart» to Johnny Depp and Joel Edgerton in «Black Mass,» about notorious gangster Whitey Bulger.
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, «The Help» stars Emma Stone (star of the breakout hit, «Zombieland») as Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends» lives - and a small Mississippi town - upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.
Filmmaker Rob Meyer first received the script for what was then titled Black Kid — and became Little Boxes — by writer Annie Howell in March, 2014 from producers Jared Goldman and Jordan Horowitz.
This examination of the black playwright's upbringing in segregated Chicago and ultimate success as a groundbreaking writer is both well - told and well - supported with unique sources from fellow playwrights to professors.
Black Panther writer Okorafor will pen the series, with art from Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque and Terry Dodson.
But the two leads — a pair of black teen graffiti writers from the Bronx — break the comparison.
The black sheep of a family tries being a better human being in the ferocious, powerful «Krisha,» a remarkable feature debut from writer - director - editor - producer Trey Edward Shults.
Writer Robert Klane goes to sleep on it after the black farce premise is executed and from thereon the comedy dries up faster than one can say The Trouble with Harry.
Writer / director Guillermo del Toro was ostensibly inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon, a classic horror flick from the Fifties which spawned a couple of sequels as well as a comedic spinoff, Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
From Oscar - winning writer and director Martin McDonagh comes a star - studded, blood - drenched, black comedy.
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Kinky Boots 107 Minutes / Rating: PG - 13 / US Theatrical Release Date: April 14, 2006 Director: Julian Jarrold / Writers: Geoff Deane, Tim Firth Cast: Joel Edgerton (Charlie Price), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Lola), Sarah - Jane Potts (Lauren), Jemima Rooper (Nicola), Linda Bassett (Melanie), Nick Frost (Don), Robert Pugh (Harold Price) 2.40:1 Anamorphic Widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English, French); Subtitles: English, Spanish; Closed Captioned Suggested Retail Price: $ 19.99 (Reduced from $ 29.99) / DVD Release Date: September 5, 2006 / Black Keepcase / Single - sided, dual - layered disc (DVD - 9) Sneak Peeks: Goal!