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In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Welcome to a brand NEW YEAR of How Have You Not Seen, a podcast people can dream about! We're made of megalon and love bay-bee!!
This week we start the new year by considering what has come before.... in 2024. Carson introduces Caroline to Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making, bluntly philosophical, tragicomic passion play Megalopolis! Is this a beautiful and richly experimental swan song from one of American cinema's all time greats - or - the incomprehensible ravings of a powerful wine magnate who refuses to be told no?? (it's both, the answer is that it's kinda both)
This week's important questions;
Her name is Wow Platinum?
No but for real, is this movie good or bad or what?
On the George Lucas scale, how self indulgent is all this?
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What is that?
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