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FROM SILENT TO STREAMING: EPISODE 4 – “THE FAREWELL” BY LULU WANG

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https://anchor.fm/brendan–lee/embed/episodes/THE-FAREWELL-eupum5 “It’s something I’ve had to navigate my whole life – am I American or Chinese?  I think I was quite lost a while in terms of what my voice is.” Lulu Wang, Writer/Director of The Farewell “The Farewell:  Lulu Wang Made The Year’s Most Exciting Hit By Refusing To Whitewash It” – INDIEWIRE, Eric …

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WINGS (1966)

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FROM SILENT TO STREAMING EPISODE 3: WINGS WINGS (1966) Larisa Shepitko is quite possibly the greatest filmmaker that no one knows about. Born in 1938 in the Soviet Union, Shepitko and her family were deeply affected by World War Two having to face hunger, poverty, and constantly moving to avoid the danger and violence. The …

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FROM SILENT TO STREAMING

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https://anchor.fm/brendan–lee/embed/episodes/LE-BONHEUR-etn7h6 EPISODE 2: LE BONHEUR (1965): Agnes Varda’s exploration of marital “Happiness” In the opening scene of Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur, we are introduced to what appears to be a perfectly happy married couple and their children.  Despite Varda’s use of beautiful, bold colors and a score by Mozart, we eventually find out that this …

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FROM SILENT TO STREAMING

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EPISODE 1: THE WOMAN’S FILM (1971): A ‘Consciousness Raising Group” on Film https://anchor.fm/brendan–lee/embed/episodes/THE-WOMANS-FILM-ete2dj The 1960’s was a watershed moment in the world of filmmaking. The emergence of “cinema-verite” style documentary coupled with the advancement in filmmaking technology gave filmmakers more independence when it came to making films. Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker have become synonymous …

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UNIVERSAL HORROR: The Legacy of the original ‘Monster Movies’

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‘Universal Horror’ was the very first shared franchise in film that ran successfully from the late 1920’s to the early 1950’s. The studio gave the world the visual embodiment of some of the greatest characters in literature with Bela Lugosi as ‘Count Dracula’ and Boris Karloff as the ‘Monster’ in Frankenstein. While theses two images …

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Is McCabe & Mrs. Miller a film about Gentrification?

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Robert Altman’s classic film McCabe & Mrs. Miller is one of the best anti-Hollywood, anti-hero pieces from the 1970’s, a decade which perfected the anti-hero genre. I believe, however, that the film may have been a foreshadowing of something that, almost 50 years later, is sweeping through the communities all over the world, displacing residents, …

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