Eternal Lee tipped off cover out of the final turn and roared through the stretch to score in Thursday’s (July 14) $133,982 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Luisella captured the other division in the event, known as the Stenographer, for three-year-old trotting fillies.
A 13-race qualifying session went to post at Magical Acres on Wednesday (June 30) featuring the fourth set of baby races over the Chesterfield oval, with a total of 11 groups of freshmen going to gate.
In the lone dash for freshmen pacing males, Pebble Beach sparked in the last half to win drawing away in a 1:54.4 mile. Driver Todd McCarthy circled the Downbytheseaside colt past early leader Vicious by a :31 first quarter to lead the field to a 1:00 half. McCarthy then motored the Noel Daley trainee up the backside, clipping three-quarters in 1:27.2 and kicking clear of his competition off the turn to win by 4 1/4 lengths. Vicious held second and Boston rounded the trio.
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