Ava DuVernay’s return to feature filmmaking doubles as a thematic homecoming. Origin, loosely adapted from Isabel Wilkerson’s tome Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is, at its core, a deeply sincere story of love and grief.
DuVernay’s interest in animating the inner lives of Black women stretches back to her feature debut, I Will Follow, in which she explored the contours of a young woman’s heartache after the death of her aunt. She built on it with Middle of Nowhere, a remarkable second feature about a nurse confronting her relationship with her incarcerated husband. And although Selma is about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the film complicates Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), positioning her as King’s strategic co-conspirator instead of just a dutiful wife. In all of these films, DuVernay centers the emotional landscape of Black women, reflecting on how interpersonal and structural constrictions shape their behaviors.
DuVernay’s interest in animating the inner lives of Black women stretches back to her feature debut, I Will Follow, in which she explored the contours of a young woman’s heartache after the death of her aunt. She built on it with Middle of Nowhere, a remarkable second feature about a nurse confronting her relationship with her incarcerated husband. And although Selma is about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the film complicates Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), positioning her as King’s strategic co-conspirator instead of just a dutiful wife. In all of these films, DuVernay centers the emotional landscape of Black women, reflecting on how interpersonal and structural constrictions shape their behaviors.
- 9/6/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The second part of this year’s Venice Film Festival shines with at least two firsts: Ava DuVernay is the first African-American female director competing for the Golden Lion, here with a film about Isabel Wilkerson, the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Origin is inspired by Wilkerson’s seminal 2020 book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents, but is a stand-alone cinematic retelling of a life, work, and the process of uncovering, from within, the perilous paradigms that shape our social structures. Even if such a premise reads a bit dry, DuVernay’s dedication to rawness and realism puts literary and conceptual devices to good use to make an affecting, vital film for our times.
Portraying Isabel is Aunjanue Ellis Taylor, who made a promising collaboration with DuVernay on her 2019 show When They See Us. For Origin, the actress channels all her untiring devotion...
Portraying Isabel is Aunjanue Ellis Taylor, who made a promising collaboration with DuVernay on her 2019 show When They See Us. For Origin, the actress channels all her untiring devotion...
- 9/6/2023
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
A 30-year-old man was arrested in Burbank, California, Tuesday after entering an Mma gym with a loaded gun, police tell People.
Matthew Lloyd, a Los Angeles resident, walked into the Defiant Mma Mixed Martial Arts Studio carrying a “black messenger-style bag,” a spokesperson for the Burbank Police Department says.
When police arrived at the scene, Lloyd was “being subdued by another male inside the facility,” who police identified only as an instructor at the gym.
“In order to protect himself, the instructor used martial arts techniques to control and subdue the suspect until police arrived,” a statement obtained by People reads.
Matthew Lloyd, a Los Angeles resident, walked into the Defiant Mma Mixed Martial Arts Studio carrying a “black messenger-style bag,” a spokesperson for the Burbank Police Department says.
When police arrived at the scene, Lloyd was “being subdued by another male inside the facility,” who police identified only as an instructor at the gym.
“In order to protect himself, the instructor used martial arts techniques to control and subdue the suspect until police arrived,” a statement obtained by People reads.
- 9/1/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Evan Agostini/AP
Just when you think that you have heard it all, there appears to be a new storyline in the Hulk Hogan sex tape saga. New evidence suggests that Hogan may have been extorted and blackmailed when it came to the tape’s possible release to the general public.
Hogan is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Gawker concerning the alleged release of the tape, which was filmed without Hogan’s knowledge in 2006. Back in July, Hogan was abruptly released from his WWE contract when racist comments that Hogan made on the tape were leaked to the media.
A news agency in Florida suggests that Matthew Lloyd, a co-worker of Radio D.J. Bubba The Love Sponge, attempted to extort Hogan of $1 million after stealing the sex tape, which features Hogan and Bubba The Love Sponge’s ex-wife, Heather Clem. Lloyd worked under the radio name “Spice.”
An...
Just when you think that you have heard it all, there appears to be a new storyline in the Hulk Hogan sex tape saga. New evidence suggests that Hogan may have been extorted and blackmailed when it came to the tape’s possible release to the general public.
Hogan is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Gawker concerning the alleged release of the tape, which was filmed without Hogan’s knowledge in 2006. Back in July, Hogan was abruptly released from his WWE contract when racist comments that Hogan made on the tape were leaked to the media.
A news agency in Florida suggests that Matthew Lloyd, a co-worker of Radio D.J. Bubba The Love Sponge, attempted to extort Hogan of $1 million after stealing the sex tape, which features Hogan and Bubba The Love Sponge’s ex-wife, Heather Clem. Lloyd worked under the radio name “Spice.”
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- 11/19/2015
- by Ryan Droste
- Obsessed with Film
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