In the 1980s, living as an LGBTQ person was not easy. At the height of the AIDS crisis, people were turning to the LGBTQ community as scapegoats for the spread of it, with people even calling it “ga...Read More
Film is a business. With major directors and actors, the questions and dramas involving how much they are paid are center stage, with high profile actors unafraid to hide that being financially snubbe...Read More
Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning is widely regarded as necessary in distribution, all the while garnering scrutiny in execution. Livingston’s direction and narrative exposed a wider ...Read More
This mini movie compilation is one that I appreciate greatly in its simplicity and creative imagination. The creative elements are so random, yet make sense and conveys accurately to the audience Bill...Read More
Paris is Burning (Livingston, 1990) is a documentary that showcases the livelihood, ambitions, and conflicts in the drag queen community in New York City in the late 80’s. The late 1980s w...Read More
As a documentary film that recorded the history and development of ball games in New York city in the 80s, Paris is Burning reveals the obstacles faced by the group that is “black, male and gay” f...Read More
Last Friday, I traveled fifteen minutes to see Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese, 2023) on the big screen. The film is classic Scorsese. It clocks in at 3 hours and 26 minutes with elaborate stor...Read More
Documentaries, like any other genres of film, utilizes different forms to oftentimes convey different messages toward their intended audiences. To define category simply, it is basically the way indiv...Read More
In the wake of the Haitian revolution, the approaching Black or “slave” lead state burned their oppressors’, the French, land in attempts to make their domain uninhabitable, to even bare...Read More
This article explores one of the interesting parts of the movie Nope(Jordan Peele,2022). The exploitation of animals is a common theme throughout the movie, highlighted through the similarities betwee...Read More