All All. Sign In. Presented from February 5 through February 9, the program kicks off with a special 35mm screening of Nosferatu , joined by eight films selected by Eggers as companion pieces. See full article at bloody-disgusting. Kassem Istanbouli has been on a mission over the past decade restoring abandoned cinema theaters and converting them into cultural hubs for marginalized communities in Lebanon.
Working under the banners of Ngo the Tiro Association for Arts Taa and his Istanbouli Theater company, the artist, actor and filmmaker has spearheaded the renovation of cinemas in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli as well as in Beirut and the southern Lebanese cities of Tyre and Nabatieh. Amid the escalating war between Israel and Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, these cinema theaters are being repurposed yet again as shelters for people displaced from southern Lebanon and the capital of Beirut by Israeli military action.
The mother of a child gunned down at Sandy Hook penned it in an open letter. The Orlando Sentinel printed the names. Anderson Cooper recited them. A gunman, year-old Omar Mateen , murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others in the wee hours of that awful Sunday, massacring LGBTQ people of color and their allies in the middle of Pride Month, and the commemoration of the dead demanded knowing who they were.
See full article at Slant Magazine. With half the decade spent in the midst of a century-defining world war and the other half spent recovering from its horrors, it's understandable that cinema in the s would be a little bit on the dark side. While films explicitly about World War II dominated the early years of the s, they quickly gave way to utterly unique film noir movies. Less a genre and more a series of stylistic elements, these pictures were defined by their seediness, cynicism, and focus on crime that reflected the trauma of filmmakers and audiences alike.
Still, s cinema isn't all dark! The decade actually has a surprising amount of humor, with both satire and romantic comedies proving popular in Hollywood. You can almost feel films from this era negotiating between two powerful emotions: the anguish that the turbulent s and s brought along with them, and the joy that existed in spite of it.
