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Atlanta: the show you should be watching
If you haven’t been keeping up with Atlanta Season 2: “Robbin’ Season” on FX, well I’m not going to spoil any of it for you. What I will say is you need to get on that. It’s one of the smartest, funniest, darkest, most original shows out there currently on TV. Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, they kill it in every episode. I’ll post up the Season 1 and Season 2…
“I’m glad I can be part of projects I can be proud of and not shroud myself from an embarrassing thing, which it could easily be because I’m just trying to work as an actor. I’ve been lucky to work with these fucking geniuses.”—Lakeith Stanfield
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Get Out (2017)
Dir: Jordan Peele
DOP: Toby Oliver
“All I know is sometimes…if there’s too many white people I get nervous, you know?”
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“Do you think I can have one more kiss? I’ll find closure on your lips, and then I’ll go.”
Someone Great (2019)
Boots Riley’s Dystopian Satire “Sorry to Bother You” Is an Anti-Capitalist Rallying Cry for Workers
An evil telemarketing company, a corporation making millions off of slave labor, and one Oakland man at the center of it all who discovers a secret that threatens all of humankind. Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” is the dystopian social satire being hailed as one of the best movies of the summer. On Tuesday we sat down with with Riley, the poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, humorist, political organizer, community activist, lecturer and public speaker—best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club.
He talked about the power of work stoppages and strikes in the film:
I believe that since the beginning of the New Left, progressives and radicals have turned more to spectacle and gone away from actually organizing at the actual point of contradiction in capitalism, which is the explication of labor, which is also where the working class has its power. And we’ve gone in favor of demonstrations, that don’t necessarily have teeth, but they show where our head is at. And I feel like we have to put—give these demonstrations more teeth, by being able to affect the bottom line and say, you know—and say, “You can make no money today, or you can make less money and give us what we want.”
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