#Nzingha Stewart

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In a city where there is no center, I'm your center.

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@pscentral event 18: adaptations

SAM CLAFLIN PAGE TO SCREEN ADAPTATIONS

Daisy Jones and the Six (2023) dir. James Ponsoldt, Nzingha Stewart, Will Graham Journey's End (2017) dir. Saul Dibb The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence Love, Rosie (2014) dir. Christian Ditter The Riot Club (2014) dir. Lone Scherfig Me Before You (2016) dir. Thea Sharrock Enola Holmes (2020) dir. Harry Bradbeer Adrift (2018) dir. Baltasar Kormákur My Cousin Rachel (2017) dir. Roger Michell Their Finest (2016) dir. Lone Scherfig

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favorite couples :

daisy jones & billy dunne

daisy jones and the six (2023), dir. james ponsoldt, will graham and nzingha stewart

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What I’ve Been Watching This Year

by Isobelle Cruz [April 13, 2023]

March has passed and I figure it’s too late to follow through with a post on the female directors I love, so instead, here’s a short list of the shows and films I’ve been watching this year in no specific order.

Beef (2023)

Directed by Lee Sung Jin

My most recent and favorite watch…lo and behold, Beef. A show about two extremely vulnerable and flawed people masking themselves through pride and borderline pettiness. Beef has it all from road rage, heist, and arson, to child abduction.

The Netflix Original starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeung features some of the most lonely characters I’ve seen on film. Danny Cho is a struggling self-proclaimed contractor that works every opportunity he’s given to keep him and his brother afloat while also standing by his promise to buy their parents a house in Los Angeles. With all of that weight at hand, Danny resorts to attempts at suicide and at the perfect time, meets Amy Lau—a woman just as lonely, struggling, and desperate at life as Danny.

But I promise you, it is not as touching as I made it out to be.

Danny and Amy take turns attacking each other after a road rage incident—pissing in Amy’s bathroom floor, vandalizing Danny’s truck, breaking into her house, fucking his brother, kidnapping her daughter—it never seems to end. … Until it does, in the middle of nowhere. The final episode of Danny and Amy in the Deserts reminded me of animals in the wild, a representation of what humans are in the grand scheme of it all. Beef is a must-watch for the hot-tempered, prideful Asians out there who are looking to see themselves on screen

Aftersun (2022)

Directed by Charlotte Wells

Aftersun was an experience. It was uneventful yet somehow spoke so much to me about the joys I’ve been holding myself back from and continue to do. I’d say that Aftersun is so well-loved because of how much it’s able to connect with its audience, despite their varying experiences in life.

It reminded me so much of a trip I had gone on with my father when I was about the same age as Sophie. It’s happened, it’s passed, and I can’t say it really made a drastic impact on my life. But it was there. It is now a memory—which is exactly what the film was. Instead of showing a major turning point in the protagonist’s life, it showed a memory, and it was enough for me to love.

Daisy Jones & the Six (2023)

Directed by James Ponsoldt, Nzingha Stewart, and Will Graham

Let me start off by saying how rich the production for Daisy Jones & the Six was, firstly through their music. I still remember when I first got my hands on the book and searched the band on Spotify, knowing very well that no results would come up, but now there they are—-with 3 million monthly listeners and 24 songs released.

Although the production and marketing went beyond my expectations, the writing seemed to lack, unable to show depth and establish the characters’ relationships with each other. The show went straight to the point, as though the writers had been scared of losing the audience’s attention by putting more focus on the little things, which I would doubt. It lacked the craziness that was found in the book. It lacked the drugs, women, fans, and the skyrocketing feel of their career that were always present in Reed’s works.

Nonetheless, these things never dragged down my rating of the show. It was interesting to finally see what Daisy and Billy’s chemistry looked like on screen and hear their lyrics come to life, which were, oh, so difficult to read on paper. Amazon Prime did its job to reach DJATS fans’ expectations and to entertain newcomers to the fictional band. — Let’s just hope Netflix does the same for Evelyn Hugo.

Suzume (2023)

Directed by Makoto Shinkai

My first anime experience in the cinema. Suzume’s soundtrack blasting from the speakers and Makoto Shinkai’s breathtaking art displayed before me brought this urge to jump through the screen. The atmosphere his art carried through the room was something I wish I could do with my own works.

Throughout the whole watch, it didn’t come to me that this was a love story between two people. There was that obvious crush Suzume had on Sōta, but it surprises me to hear a few people refer to this film as romance. It was moreover an emotional adventure, shining light on the lost souls that have made inches of the world alive.

My favorite scene, before Sōta is turned into a keystone, wherein Tokyo is shown in slow-motion with people going through their everyday lives—eating, shopping, and commuting–-while not knowing their world was on the brink of end, made me ponder of the unseen things that make life the way it is. Everything that has brought everyone to where they are.

There had been times when Suzume and Sōta would prepare to lock up a door once again and I’d think to myself, when will this end? It was as though listening to a song that would repeat the same line over and over again, but besides that, the pacing was captivating---had my eyes stuck to the screen the whole time.

Suzume is exactly what you would expect from Makoto Shinkai. Beautiful art, music, and an okay story.

Babylon (2023)

Directed by Damien Chazelle

Ask me if I’m tired of watching films set in Hollywood and I would likely say yes. But that doesn’t stop me from doing just so over and over again. It surprised me to see how negative the reviews on Babylon have been and almost allowed myself to be swayed by them, but thankfully, had chosen otherwise.

Although I do see where some of the negativity comes from.

The film has been branded as “ Chazelle’s attempt to pander to the Academy for another best pic nomination” by audiences, and as yet another film showing off the lavish and wild lives of Hollywood. Inequality, drugs, women, abuse, and everything. What’s new?

Well, I don’t really care about what’s new or what makes Babylon a poorly-made knockoff of Cinema Paradiso or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Chazelle was able to keep me entertained and laughing throughout its 3-hour duration, and sometimes it gets really tiring trying to make cinema a technical experience. I can proudly say (shaking as I type this) that I loved Babylon.

[jesstasticvoyage]

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tall girl (2019) dir. nzingha stewart

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O sindicato dos diretores dos Estados Unidos revelou os indicados ao DGA Awards 2024. A cerimônia acontece no dia 10 de fevereiro.

Confira abaixo:

-Melhor direção Greta Gerwig (Barbie) Yorgos Lanthimos (Pobres criaturas) Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) Alexander Payne (Os rejeitados) Martin Scorsese (Assassinos da lua das flores)

-Melhor estreia na direção Cord Jefferson (American Fiction) Manuela Martelli (Chile ‘76) Noora Niasari (Shayda) A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand and One) Celine Song (Vidas passadas)

-Melhor direção em série de drama The Last of Us - Peter Hoar Succession - Becky Martin Succession - Mark Mylod Succession - Andrij Parekh Succession - Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman

-Melhor direção em série de comédia Ted Lasso - Erica Dunton Barry - Bill Hader Ted Lasso - Declan Lowney O Urso - Christopher Storer O Urso - Ramy Youssef

-Melhor direção em filme de TV ou minisserie Toda Luz Que Não Podemos Ver - Shawn Levy Uma Questão de Química - Tara Miele Uma Questão de Química - Millicent Shelton Uma Questão de Química - Sarah Adinah Smith Daisy Jones & The Six - Nzingha Stewart

-Melhor direção em programa infantil Percy Jackson e os Olimpianos - James Bobin American Born Chinese - Destin Daniel Cretton Goosebumps - Rob Letterman Stand Up & Shout: Songs From a Philly High School - Amy Schatz American Born Chinese - Dinh Thai

-Melhor direção em documentário Bobi Wine: The People’s President - Moses Bwayo & Christopher Sharp 20 Days in Mariupol - Mstyslav Chernov Beyond Utopia - Madeleine Gavin Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie - Davis Guggenheim Kokomo City - D. Smith

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You just reminded me of that post that said Nzingha Stewart also directed Tall Girl...

I’ve never seen tall girl so it means nothing to me, but I was looking through her credits since she directed 8&9 and To Me from My Specific Viewpoint that makes her truly gifted. The other one that had meaning to me was NBC’s Good Girls credit (she directed the ep where they rob a spa in s1).

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Tall Girl (2019) - IMDb

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From Scratch | Trailer

#FromScratch wasn't on my radar at all but it looks like a good cry. #zoesaldana #Netflixseries #upcoming

Writer: Tembi Locke (Novel) and Attica Locke Director: Dennie Gordon and Nzingha Stewart Stars: Zoe Saldana, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Danielle Deadwyler, Keith David Synopsis: An American woman falls in love with a Sicilian man while studying abroad in Italy. Streaming October 21st on Netflix If you’re interested in the source material, help us by getting them from the link below: From Scratch:…

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From Scratch – La forza di un amore: trailer e foto della miniserie con Zoe Saldaña

From Scratch – La forza di un amore: trailer e foto della miniserie con Zoe Saldaña

Read More Nella nuova miniserie romantica targata Netflix e ambientata in italia, Amy e Lino vivono una storia d’amore indimenticabile, ispirata all’omonima autobiografia bestseller del New York Times. From Scratch – La forza di un amore sarà disponibile dal 21 ottobre: ecco trailer e foto. Con Nzingha Stewart alla regia, il film vede nel cast Zoe Saldaña From Scratch – La forza di un amore:…

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did you hear about the new show redrum jenna bans is producing... they have my attention... would prefer good girls to not have been cancelled lmao but. they have my attention.

I hadn't heard about it yet, anon, but oh my gosh, that sounds like so much fun! I'm delighted by Jenna producing and Carla Banks-Waddles showrunning too. Carla wrote some of my favourite eps of Good Girls 2.05, 2.09, 3.02, 3.10, and 4.06 (!) Show description below if other people are interested too :-)

Redrum is described a sexy, swampy dark dramedy/thriller about two best friends — Jess and Sadie – who host a podcast about New Orleans’ most infamous serial killers. But when they make fun of the wrong sociopath and people close to them start to turn up dead, our friends, who are grossly ill-equipped for this unfortunate circumstance, realize they have to do what the police haven’t: find the killer before they become the victims of their own story. Let the good times roll.

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Tall Girl (2019)

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Little Fires Everywhere

“Picture Perfect”

Director: Nzingha Stewart

DoP: Jeffrey Waldron