Expanding for the first time from six to 12 days, Nantucket Film Festival will next month offer virtual, drive-in and “garden” movie screenings while honoring and hosting more than a dozen film, TV and literary celebrities.
Actor Kelsey Grammer (TV’s “Frasier”) will receive the festival’s Compass Rose Award for Career Achievement, while Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Gilmore Girls”) will receive the Excellence in Television Writing Award, according to an announcement today.
The June 17-28 festival will screen 25 features and 32 short films in its hybrid format necessitated by COVID-19 precautions. This year s fest will open with “Summer of Soul (. Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised,” a documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival by The Roots Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, which is due to be released later this year.
This combination photo shows poster art for best picture Oscar nominees, top row from left, The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, bottom row from left, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7. (Sony Pictures Classics/Warner Bros. Pictures, Netflix, A24, Searchlight Pictures, Focus Features, Amazon Studios, Netflix via AP) Previous Next
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Jack London’s ashes, which are buried under a rock on Sonoma Mountain in Northern California, must be calling wildly to the living. In a new movie just out, that’s titled
Jack London’s Martin Eden, Russ Brissenden, one of the main characters, who also figures in the novel, Martin Eden, is an African-American. The film also features two women of color who are labor activists and socialists. In London’s 1908 book there are no Black characters or people of color. Brissenden is as white as can be.
In fact, there are no significant Black characters in any of London’s 50 books, though there are some Mexicans and some Asians. The author wanted the real world to be for whites only. He mostly populated his fictional universe with white men and white women.