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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 How Have You Not Seen, a movie podcast where we work 50 times harder, and are gonna be 50 times more famous than you!
This week, Caroline introduces Carson to Martin Scorsese's brutally hilarious black comedy, The King of Comedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah we timed this to the release of Joker 2, what of it?? Go eat a sandwich out of a briefcase why don't ya...
This week's important questions;
Is this movie darker than Taxi Driver?
Does wanting to be famous make you crazy?
Is any of this even real, man??
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Robert DeNiro; absolutely GOATed with the sauce?
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