Chasing the Ghost of James Baldwin: Yashaddai Owens’ ‘Jimmy’ and the New Wave of Impressionistic Biopics
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In a 2024 interview with The Guardian, actor and Broadway icon Billy Porter posed a rhetorical question that resonated deeply within the halls of Black queer cinema: “If not me, who?” Porter was discussing his ambitious plans to direct and star in a…
The Architecture of Memory: Christopher Nolan and Jennifer Lame’s Impressionistic Epic, The Odyssey
In the landscape of modern blockbuster filmmaking, few partnerships have redefined the grammar of the medium as profoundly as that of director Christopher Nolan and editor Jennifer Lame. Following the colossal success of Oppenheimer (2023) and the…
