This premiered at Telluride to pretty good reviews. Amazon-MGM has been pretty good at getting a Picture nominee every year since 2020: Sound of Metal, Licorice Pizza (both of which were Amazon...
Amazon-MGM has been pretty good at getting a Picture nominee every year since 2020: Sound of Metal, Licorice Pizza (both of which were Amazon and MGM respectively prior to the acquisition), Women Talking, and American Fiction.
This should be no different since it has Plan B backing it (Brad Pitt’s production company) which also produced Women Talking, along many other Oscar contenders like Moonlight, Minari, 12 Years A Slave, The Big Short, and The Departed.
This is definitely going to be more of an artsy play than American Fiction, which was mostly a crowd-pleasing dramedy.
The novel is devastating, and the true story about the school it's based on is horrifying, sobering, and worth knowing about. This is our history, and we're still grappling with it today....
The novel is devastating, and the true story about the school it's based on is horrifying, sobering, and worth knowing about. This is our history, and we're still grappling with it today.
Colson Whitehead is one of America's finest contemporary writers. I haven't read Harlem Shuffle or Crook Manifesto (which I think is a sequel to Harlem Shuffle?) but The Underground Railroad is...
Colson Whitehead is one of America's finest contemporary writers. I haven't read Harlem Shuffle or Crook Manifesto (which I think is a sequel to Harlem Shuffle?) but The Underground Railroad is terrific. He won the Pulitzer for that one, and for The Nickel Boys.
I didn't like Crook Manifesto quite as much as Harlem Shuffle but it finishes the story. Harlem Shuffle is an understated masterpiece but it doesn't have a grand premise like Underground railroad....
I didn't like Crook Manifesto quite as much as Harlem Shuffle but it finishes the story. Harlem Shuffle is an understated masterpiece but it doesn't have a grand premise like Underground railroad. It's just about a guy and a neighborhood at a moment in time. It has relationships, adventures, mistakes, successes but mostly it's a beautiful portrait of Harlem. I compare it to breaking bad for the character arc.
This premiered at Telluride to pretty good reviews.
Amazon-MGM has been pretty good at getting a Picture nominee every year since 2020: Sound of Metal, Licorice Pizza (both of which were Amazon and MGM respectively prior to the acquisition), Women Talking, and American Fiction.
This should be no different since it has Plan B backing it (Brad Pitt’s production company) which also produced Women Talking, along many other Oscar contenders like Moonlight, Minari, 12 Years A Slave, The Big Short, and The Departed.
This is definitely going to be more of an artsy play than American Fiction, which was mostly a crowd-pleasing dramedy.
The novel is devastating, and the true story about the school it's based on is horrifying, sobering, and worth knowing about. This is our history, and we're still grappling with it today.
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162941770/floridas-dozier-school-for-boys-a-true-horror-story
I love Harlem Shuffle by the same author who wrote the nickel boys. He is IMHO a highly skilled writer and Harlem Shuffle is an understated gem.
Colson Whitehead is one of America's finest contemporary writers. I haven't read Harlem Shuffle or Crook Manifesto (which I think is a sequel to Harlem Shuffle?) but The Underground Railroad is terrific. He won the Pulitzer for that one, and for The Nickel Boys.
I didn't like Crook Manifesto quite as much as Harlem Shuffle but it finishes the story. Harlem Shuffle is an understated masterpiece but it doesn't have a grand premise like Underground railroad. It's just about a guy and a neighborhood at a moment in time. It has relationships, adventures, mistakes, successes but mostly it's a beautiful portrait of Harlem. I compare it to breaking bad for the character arc.