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Stillwater received after its premiere on July 8.
The Velvet Underground is a documentary film about a rock band of the same name, directed by
Todd Haynes.
NPR called the film “richly immersive” and named it one of the seven films not to miss from the Cannes Film Festival.
Todd Haynes’s “The Velvet Underground,” which debuted at Cannes, is no conventional music documentary. https://t.co/ZBsuJeAw7D
Feathers won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week. According to
Variety, the film directed and written by
John Ruane is set in modern-day Egypt and focuses on a mother of three whose idealist husband is unexpectedly turned into a chicken by a magician.
by Wm. Steven Humphrey • Apr 28, 2021 at 8:42 am
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• Today in useless, crybaby Republicanism: Shortly after Gov. Kate Brown extended Oregon s state of emergency orders to May 2 because, hello, PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING Republicans refused to show up to work (FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR), thereby grinding the legislature to a halt. However they did send a letter demanding that the Governor immediately reopen all schools to in-person learning. something that s decided by individual school districts, not Brown. To paraphrase Dean Wormer from
Animal House, Stupid and lazy is no way to go through life.
Oregon Senate Republicans boycotted the state Legislature’s floor session on Thursday, shortly after Gov. Kate Brown announced she was extending her COVID-19 related emergency order.https://t.co/QxmJYPNTqY