Why Royal From The Underground Railroad Looks So Familiar
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Co-writing and directing the most critically acclaimed drama of the decade, beating the odds to win a historical Academy Award for Best Picture with it, following it up with another incredible Oscar-winning film, and making the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world will usually do wonders for your career. It s no surprise that Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins is at the top of the industry right now, and his latest work, The Underground Railroad, further demonstrates that.
These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics
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AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
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For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912.
Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respective arenas have developed what some might call a symbiotic relationship. Movies often, but not always, depend on solid reviews to succeed, and movie critics rely on the emergence of new films to keep their jobs.
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What Bong Joon-ho Can Teach Us About Transnational Cinema
Time to dig into some film theory.
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The Queue your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about how the films of Bong Joon-ho tap into the tricky art of transnational cinema.
It only took 92 years, but in one of the few objectively good things to happen in 2020,
transnational cinema
.
An emerging concept in cinema studies, transnational cinema encompasses a wide swath of theories that have to do with globalization’s effect on the cultural and economic aspects of a given film. And one of the theoretical playgrounds under transnational cinema’s auspices is the idea of movies that intermingle the aesthetics, genre conventions, and cinematic styles of one culture, with the socio-political concerns and themes of another.
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Based on Julie Murphy s young adult bestseller, Anne Fletcher s coming-of-age comedy puts a spotlight on the complexity of a mother-daughter relationship as former beauty queen Rosie (Jennifer Aniston) and her plus-size teenage daughter, Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), navigate years of unresolved conflict between them. Case in point: It doesn t help that Rosie keeps calling Willowdean Dumplin, because she thinks her daughter looks like a round little dumplin .
Finally, our title heroine figures out a way for her mom to hear her out. Why not enter the small town s annual Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant, which Rosie manages? This way, she can put forward her heels in protest. And so begins the unraveling of long-simmering resentments and tensions between the mom and her daughter. Will they ever reconcile their differences?