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French cult film ‘La Haine’ returns as hip-hop musical with tensions persisting in poor suburbs
3 months ago

French cult film ‘La Haine’ returns as hip-hop musical with tensions persisting in poor suburbs

Associated Press  

Watching “La Haine” nearly 30 years ago, there was a sense of something inexorable about violence in the French suburbs. The title remains the same — “La Haine,” which translates as “hate,” but adds a subtitle: “So far, nothing has changed.” “Two days after we announced the show, we were very hyped,” Kassovitz said. It’s for all the victims that …

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The National Book Awards’ translated-lit longlist is here. Of course David Diop is on it
1 year, 3 months ago

The National Book Awards’ translated-lit longlist is here. Of course David Diop is on it

LA Times  

David Diop’s new novel, “Beyond the Door of No Return,” entwines the lives of a French botanist and a formerly enslaved woman in French-controlled Senegal. In 2021, a slim, incantatory novel about a West African Allied regiment in World War I won the International Booker Prize, and the world was introduced to 55-year-old French Senegalese author and scholar David Diop. …

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The 75 best movies by Black directors—and where they’re streaming.
1 year, 9 months ago

The 75 best movies by Black directors—and where they’re streaming.

Slate  

Seven years ago—when #OscarsSoWhite was a hot topic and Obama was still president—Slate published the Black Film Canon, a list of 50 of the best and most culturally significant films by Black directors. “Dash insisted on making a migration film that would rely on the vibrancy of images, the richness of Gullah cultural rituals and its African rooted ancestral signification, …

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‘Spanish football is 25 years behind on racism’ so will the Diakhaby-Cala incident change anything?
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Spanish football is 25 years behind on racism’ so will the Diakhaby-Cala incident change anything?

New York Times  

There were 28 minutes played at Cadiz’s Ramon de Carranza stadium on April 4th against Valencia, when a free kick was hit long into the penalty area of the visitors. In 2018, Levante midfielder Jefferson Lerma accused Celta Vigo’s Iago Aspas of calling him a “black shit” during a game, but a La Liga investigation found no evidence. “When I …

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’Lupin’ review: Netflix’s latest thriller has the smoothest hero on TV
3 years, 11 months ago

’Lupin’ review: Netflix’s latest thriller has the smoothest hero on TV

Live Mint  

“Gentlemen never wear brown in London,” Lord Curzon famously said. In Netflix’s new series Lupin, the charismatic hero wears not only brown but, at various times, the fluorescent orange of a delivery boy’s jacket, a flatteringly cut purple suit, and black and yellow Air Jordans. The series evokes the iconic ‘gentleman thief’ of French literature, the character Arséne Lupin, created …

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