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While such narrative features as 'Nomadland' and the docu-comedy 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' lean into reality, this season's docs 'Collective,' 'My Octopus Teacher' and 'The Mole Agent' play more like dramatic inventions.

Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures; Apple; Netflix (2) A look into how five feature contenders DPs captured chaos, the West and personal transformation through their distinctly different approaches to their nominated works. The American Society of Cinematographers’ five feature nominees—one of whom will become a first-time winner when the 35th annual ASC Awards are handed out virtually April 18 from the Societys Hollywood Clubhouse—represent very distinct approaches to the medium. Although...

In case you’re new to Medium Cool,  BGinCHI is here once a week to offer a thread on culture, mainly film & books, with some TV thrown in. For this week’s Medium Cool, let’s talk about fiction/film, climate change, and refugees. One of my MA students is writing a fascinating thesis, and his work makes me wonder what kinds of texts or films people might add to the conversation. Here’s his argument: “Through an exploration of the important interventions marginalized speculative artis...

I totally agree about Firefly. It was a great show. Also, while it ran for its planned five years, Babylon 5 was kind of wrecked because the fifth season wasn’t greenlighted until fairly late in production for season four, so the producers crammed the climax into a couple of episodes and brought the planned 5-year arc to the desired conclusion at the end of season four. As a result, season five is anti-climactic and kind of meandering and boring. Still, it’s a great show, worth the time inv...

I’d be down for it. It’s interesting in retrospect that during the late 60s, 70s, and even into the 80s a lot of people thought the USSR was stronger than it really was in reality. So much so, that in the 70s many believed that the aggressive posture that the US/NATO had assumed towards the USSR/WP was not sustainable; that the USSR and the US had to accept one another and either work together more closely on world governance as the two superpowers, or at the very least agree to not dick ar...

– What’s the one person/group that you regret never getting to see live? This one is easy: Peter, Paul, and Mary. The other ones I might come back to if I have time. Could have seen them at Boston’s Symphony Hall when I was, I think, a sophomore in college. Skipped it for some other stupid thing, then they broke up for many years. Saw Peter and Paul at a small event a few years ago, several years after Mary died ETA: – When you picture yourself hearing Prince or Bowie – or some other ...