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Interchange – The Anti-Hollywood Ethos of Charles Burnett

In this repeat from March 13, 2018, we’re joined by noted film scholar, Jim Naremore, author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge; Michael Martin, editor-in-chief of Black Camera: an International Film Journal, and professor in the Media School at Indiana University, who values Burnett as an artist who shows the banality of oppression; Jacqueline Stewart, author of Migrating …

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Interchange – That’s So Jake: Reaping Orson Welles

Our last show highlighted the “lost” Orson Welles film It’s All True with filming taking place in 1942; and today we offer a bookend. Netflix has just released a version of another Welles project that was never completed, though this one was not so much lost as held hostage. It’s called The Other Side of the Wind and it’s another …

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Interchange – Who Gets To Tell Our Stories? Charles Burnett and the Responsibility of the Artist

“[Burnett] really invites us, the viewer to, not take a position, but to say, this is what it is, do you wanna do anything about it?…In the banality of oppression, the every day reality of oppression, a toll, a profoundly tragic toll, is demanded of black people.” – Michael Martin “His filmmaking is so quiet. It’s a deeply reflective cinema; …

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