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slowly getting prepared for this years Biggest Disappointments and Eye-Roll-Inducing Decisions aka. the Oscars. I will be liveblogging some parts that made me most furious, because the rest will probably be one big bore

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Whiplash (2014) - Damien Chazelle

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Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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Tilda Swinton photographed by Juergen Teller for Hobo Magazine Spring/Summer 2014.

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Children of Men, 2006

Director - Alfonso Cuarón Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki

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Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)

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"I Killed My Mother": a summary

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icons for u and ur crew

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Bruno Dumont, director of Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), on working with Juliette Binoche

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I wanna be one of the greats.

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Cinema without people: Stoker (2013, Park Chan-Wook, dir.)

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Kevin Spacey, hi resolution. 

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We, as black people, have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings or being at the center of our own narrative. To me, Denzel Washington should have won for playing Malcolm X and that Sidney Poitier should have won his Oscar for In the Heat of the Night. We have been slaves, we have been domestic servants, we have been criminals, we have been all of those things. But we have been leaders, we have been kings, we have been those who changed the world. Those films are so hard to get made. People have often said to me, ‘Why has it taken so long?’ I mean, [King] was assassinated almost 50 years ago. There has been no film where Dr. King has been the center of his own narrative until now. That’s because up until 12 Years a Slave and The Butler did so well, both critically and at the box office, films like this were told through the eyes of white protagonists because there is a fear of white guilt. So you have a very nice white person who holds black people’s hands through their own narrative. And then also we don’t want to see that pain again, so you don’t even go into what that pain was in an authentic way. Both of those things are patronizing to the audience. You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see these things in order to move forward from them.

David Oyelowo addresses his Oscars snub at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. (via georgeorsonwelles)

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Damián Szifrón in the set of Wild Tales

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Yasujiro Ozu takes a selfie with his Contax camera