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The Big Scary S Word Review: Defanging Socialism as Capitalism Trumps Democracy The Big Scary S Word Review: Defanging Socialism as Capitalism Trumps Democracy
A lively, engaging overview of what a much-demonized concept might have to offer our era of escalating economic inequality.
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Director: Yael Bridge
With: Kate Aronoff, Nicole Aschoff, Eric Blanc, Lee J. Carter, Vivek Chibber, Eric Foner, Donna Haverty-Stacke, Mike Jacobs, Dicarlo Johnson, Brett Jones, Rozanne Junker, Matt Karp, Naomi Klein, Aims McGuiness, John McMicken, Ricardo Nunez, John Nichols, John Pearson, Stephanie Price, Kshama Sawant, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Adaner Usmani, Cornel West, Richard Wolff, Anita Zeidler.
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play Black women in 1920s New York, navigating the color line from opposite sides in Rebecca Hall s adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance novel.
Exquisite performances from Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga provide the pulsing, emotionally heightened center to
Passing, Rebecca Hall s assured move behind the camera, adapted with great sensitivity from the 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen. We re all of us passing for something or other, aren t we? muses Thompson s melancholy character Irene Redfield. This is a dreamily atmospheric evocation of 1920s New York, its bursts of Jazz Age exuberance offset by the contained threat of people being unmasked. It tells an intimate story of two women on either side of the color line while undertaking an intersectional exploration of identity in relation to race, gender, class and sexuality.
Passing Review: Rebecca Hall s Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut Passing Review: Rebecca Hall s Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut
A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion.
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Director: Rebecca Hall
With: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Ashley Ware Jenkins.
Running time: Running time: 98 MIN.
Eduard Grau
It starts in sweltering heat; it ends in freezing weather. And in between, as the temperature gradually drops, Rebecca Hall’s “Passing,” based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, calmly brings the diffuse racial landscape of prohibition-era New York City into crystalline, gorgeously shot focus. This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of “passing” being Black but pretending to be white ought to b