In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Ep. 251: Cannes 2024: Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Perez, Motel Destino
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Ep. 251: Cannes 2024: Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Perez, Motel Destino Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode chock full of highlights from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I welcome a dear old friend, Nick Davis, a professor of film at Northwestern University and writer/editor of his own outstanding longtime site of film criticism (nick-davis.com). On his inaugural visit to Cannes, he shared his typically quicksilver thoughts on a slate of boldly imagined movies: Bird (directed by Andrea Arnold), Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard), Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes), and Motel Destino (Karim Ainouz). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass
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Ep. 251: Cannes 2024: Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Perez, Motel Destino Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode chock full of highlights from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I welcome a dear old friend, Nick Davis, a professor of film at Northwestern University and writer/editor of his own outstanding longtime site of film criticism (nick-davis.com). On his inaugural visit to Cannes, he shared his typically quicksilver thoughts on a slate of boldly imagined movies: Bird (directed by Andrea Arnold), Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard), Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes), and Motel Destino (Karim Ainouz). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass
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