this song and video significantly cheered up my mood
so much better than onra’s version gah!
Best. Best best best best. I love this song and need to see this movie immediately (especially bc it has many of the same folks from Disco Dancer!)
Dear White People (movie trailer)
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
A satire about being a Black face in a white place. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film will explore racial identity in “post-racial” America while weaving a universal story of forging one’s unique path in the world.Click here to help bring this film to theaters: http://bit.ly/DWPYoTu
Remember when Black movies didn’t neccesarily star a dude in a fat suit and a wig? Or have major plot twists timed to Gospel numbers for no apparent reason? No? Damn…
Well believe it or not there was a time when “Black Art-House” was a thing. When movies like Do The Right Thing, Hollywood Shuffle, and Boyz In Da Hood were breaking box office records as well as making us laugh, cry, and think in ways movies hadn’t before.
The humble producers of DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, a satire about being a black face in a white place, long to bring those days back. But we can’t do it without you!
We pieced together what resources we had to make this trailer in order to entice investors for our planned million dollar feature. Armed with this trailer and your support we plan to make this film a reality. Click here to help bring this film to theaters: http://bit.ly/DWPYoTuI want to see this.
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What’s that, article?
http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=jgspl
You say Iranian women are forced into submission by oppressive Muslim rule? You hold an Orientalist view that Middle Eastern women are forced to live in the home, being oppressed by wearing the veil/hijab/burka while churning out babies and being beaten by their husbands or honor killed by their male family?
I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over our massive Iranian female police force armed with sub-machine guns, scaling walls, wielding swords, and shooting out of car windows.
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BOOM FOR REAL. NEW ART THOUGHTZ
Perilous Realms: The Dirty Picture
I’ve just recently discovered Vidya Balan’s latest movie, The Dirty Picture, and I’m absolutely fascinated by it. The movie is loosely based upon the life of south indian actress Silk Smitha and from what I’ve gleaned from trailers and reviwes the movie explores the sexual double standards of…
Good stuff! Silk Smitha embodied a lot of contradictions about femininity and sexuality within the puritanical Indian entertainment business, and was probably undone by changing cultural norms and the public’s refusal to acknowledge her as anything else than a wanton sex-hungry hussy.
(Also, I can’t get over the fact that her contemporaries (hoping to emulate her career?) continued with the fabric nomenclature: Nylon Nandini! Polyester Padmini! Guess it’s fitting her imitators only got synthetics.)
“Google’s street view blurred the faces of some of the mural people. South Seattle, WA.”, submitted by Troy.
