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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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It’s Del Toro Time returns with a deep dive into Steven Spielberg’s haunting 2001 sci-fi fairy tale, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and completed by Spielberg, this movie mashes up Pinocchio, Frankenstein, and a whole lot of emotional trauma—plus teddy bears and Jude Law as a robot gigolo. What more could you want?
In this episode, we break down the film’s chaotic production history, themes of abandonment, sentient love, del Toro connections, Kubrick’s ghost, and the one robot we’d die for: Teddy.
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