Barry Healy reviews Son of the South, the true story of Bob Zellner, a white student in Alabama who broke from the prevailing Jim Crow apartheid and nearly gave his life in the anti-racist struggle.
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The Oral History of Madonna s Truth or Dare (1991)
For the latest edition of its Oral Histories series, Vulture dove into the production, release and legacy of
Madonna: Truth or Dare, the landmark 1991 documentary. Among the participants in the story are director Alek Keshishian, Madonna s former publicist Liz Rosenberg (1983-2015) and several of the dancers that appeared in the film. (Madonna declined to be interviewed.)
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On the film s genesis: While I was interviewing [Madonna s dancers], that s when the cog started working in my brain. I was like,
Wait a second. These are all amazing kids. They re other. In some ways, they re broken, they re misfits in the world, and Madonna is playing their mother. [.] I came back and was like, Madonna, the movie isn t what s happening onstage. The movie is what s happening offstage with you as the maternal figure to this group of Felliniesque characters.
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 7-9
Including Almodovar s English-language debut, Eat Wheaties! and season 3 of The Girlfriend Experience By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie
May 7, 2021
The Human Voice
(Pedro Almodóvar)
Spanish director Almodóvar’s English-language debut is a short film that strips the hallmarks of his oeuvre down to a few core elements: a high-strung woman engages in high drama while clad in high fashion. Based on Jean Cocteau’s monodrama of the same name, The Human Voice is essentially a 30-minute showpiece for Tilda Swinton, who stars as a jilted woman confronting her ex in a lengthy phone call as her oblivious dog unhelpfully reflects back her anxiety. Cocteau’s play served as the inspiration for Almodóvar’s 1988 international hit Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown so not unlike 2019’s Pain And Glory, this project finds the director self-consciously revisiting the late 80s/early 90s period that defined his suc