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Good afternoon, all. It’s announcement time again. And I know I keep hinting at something coming when we hit the Gs, and I will explain it when the time comes, but for now I’m just going to say part of my motivation in choosing the books I...
On Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Charisma," and Walter Hill's "Extreme Prejudice"
I. The Forest is a Battlefield
On "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher, and "Human Voices" by Penelope Fitzgerald
I. I Am a Creature of Another Order
I bid you all a good cusp of noon, as I write this. It’s high time I announced the next round of books and films to be covered in the next exclusive to paid subscribers set of posts.
First off, as always, the books. This first is by a writ...
I. A Pimp With a Chickenshit Backbone
Film: Cotton Comes to Harlem
Director/Writer: Ossie Davis/Davis and Arnold Perl
Have I Seen Anything Else by This Director and/or Writer: Davis, only as an actor. Perl, yes: he co-wrote Norman Jewi...
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Writer at The Bulwark. Also have bylines at ebertvoices.com, Decider.com, and oscopelab.com. Blog: A Rip in the Picture - https://billryan64.substack.com/
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