The Talented Tenth
While so many of Hollywood’s high-paid actors spend their paychecks on the kind of luxury items the rest of the…
Author: john_rodzvilla
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Q/A: Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch is one of America’s most eloquent and original social critics. In the last three decades, Crouch has published…
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Sound Unseen
The line to see The Last Word at the Minneapolis Oak Street Cinema snakes down the block, splitting in two…
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The Sound of Gowns
I knew Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair was going to be an interesting and challenging project. It was filmed with lots…
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Soul Tracks
The image of the hip black detective played by Richard Roundtree in Gordon Parks’s unforgettable 1971 film, Shaft, precursor to…
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Honolulu, Hawai’i
Although the cinematic possibilities of Hawai’i—those that lay beyond the tropical tropes of tourism and military patriotism— have always been…
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Mix Master
Marcelo Zarvos is scoring big in the independent film world these days. The thirty-five-year old Brazilian-born Zarvos, who has made…
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Promoting your film
Dear Doc Doctor: All I can afford in terms of marketing my documentary is my Internet connection and email account….
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Shadowing a Sibling
Sometimes you think you don’t need any help, that you can do it on your own. That’s exactly what I…