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In lieu of romance and relaxation, Paris serves up a buffet of humiliation that propels Frances—who is nobody’s fool, it must be emphasized—to arrive at a drastic conclusion that involves another exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that late development, I am pleased to report, \u003cem>French Exit\u003c/em> won me over. The Prices are revealed to have more self-awareness and, believe it or not, compassion, than the average serpent \u003cem>sur l’herbe\u003c/em>. Whether Frances and Malcolm are ultimately redeemed from their chronic selfishness is open to discussion, but the question’s very existence enables the film to plausibly shift from an arch comedy of fake manners to a human drama with a large heart and a dash of pathos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will the current limited occupancy of movie houses create a large enough wave to ride through the first two acts? We all await the results of your empirical research.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The SFFILM Festival, canceled last year as COVID-19 exploded on the scene, returns \u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 9\u003c/a> as a virtual and drive-in event. Tickets are on sale now, and I’ll write about the lineup next week, so stay tuned. My picks for your pre-festival viewing unfold at the intersection of community and family, and before the fork in the road to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Concrete Cowboy\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nPremieres April 2\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81368729\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The setting is what stands out initially about Ricky Staub’s winning debut feature, just as with the 2011 source novel for adolescents that he adapted, G. Neri’s \u003cem>Ghetto Cowboy\u003c/em>: Black-operated stables in North Philadelphia. A vestige of an earlier era of pre-electric horsemen, the stables represent an endangered outpost of Black autonomy and community perpetually threatened by condo developers and the city’s indifference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our introduction to this curious scene is as disorienting as Cole’s (Caleb McLaughlin of \u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>), a high school malcontent whose frustrated mother drops him in the middle of the night on his estranged father’s doorstep a few blocks from the horse hostel. He may as well have landed in Wakanda, hence the allure of childhood friend and erstwhile criminal Smush (Jharrel Jerome, in the film’s most compelling performance). But Cole is a blank canvas, not a problem child, and he reluctantly comes to grasp the stature and sacrifices of his father (Idris Elba).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Concrete Cowboy\u003c/em> unfolds pretty much as you’d expect, but it’s unusually deft at dealing with coming-of-age potholes like parent-child tensions and first love as well as the clichés of gentrification and drug dealers. The themes of acceptance, personal responsibility, pride and loyalty will resonate with adult viewers and, combined with the unique environment of the stables, make the film worthwhile viewing for the whole family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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At the same time, \u003cem>Concrete Cowboy\u003c/em> shares the concern of practically every movie about the contemporary Black experience: How does a man (or a woman) with restricted opportunities and few resources achieve a satisfying, safe place in our society?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jia_Swimming-Out-Till-the-Sea-Turns-Blue_002_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13895001\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jia_Swimming-Out-Till-the-Sea-Turns-Blue_002_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jia_Swimming-Out-Till-the-Sea-Turns-Blue_002_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jia_Swimming-Out-Till-the-Sea-Turns-Blue_002_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jia_Swimming-Out-Till-the-Sea-Turns-Blue_002_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jia_Swimming-Out-Till-the-Sea-Turns-Blue_002_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Jia Zhang-ke’s ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue.’ \u003ccite>(BAMPFA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nOpens April 2\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/swimming-out-till-sea-turns-blue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BAMPFA\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonfiction directors documenting China’s rush to capitalism and loss of its soul fall into three camps: unknown filmmakers who risk everything by criticizing their society; outspoken dissidents with an international audience (Ai Weiwei); and successful mid-career artists who produce subtle, veiled critiques. Jia Zhang-ke stands out among the last group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jia’s reputation spread with his shift this decade to narrative features (\u003cem>Ash Is Purest White\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Mountains May Depart\u003c/em>, \u003cem>A Touch of Sin\u003c/em>), so his return to nonfiction with \u003cem>Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue\u003c/em> is of note. Pitched between the past and the future, and the village and the city, this is a straightforward oral history with few stylistic flourishes that takes a while to find its groove. But once it does, the film quietly reverberates with the echoes of stories told and untold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storytellers—authors Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—in recounting their unlikely paths to writing, describe their upbringings and family dynamics. They are from different generations, importantly, and Jia employs them as legs in a relay that spans 1949 to today. In so doing, he evokes a broader picture of a society thrown to and fro by disorienting transitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writers aren’t prone to nostalgia—no one misses the bad old days of arranged marriages, food coupons, politicized blackballing, erratic medicine and scarce university slots—yet the oldest of the three invokes a time of communal enterprise and problem-solving. Jia contrasts their recollections with shots of people on their phones and headphones, inviting us to consider what’s gained and lost in modern-day individualism and isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of \u003cem>Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue\u003c/em>, the 14-year-old son of Liang Hong muses, “[My mother] says the river used to be much closer to the village. Over many years, the river has changed its course. ‘Thirty years on the east, 30 years on the west.’ I find that saying especially touching.” The lad is too young to grasp the full ramification of what he’s saying, but Jia recognizes a metaphor for China’s post-1949 cultural and economic development when he hears it, and knows his audience will also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13895004\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in Azazel Jacobs’ ‘French Exit.’ \u003ccite>(Sony Pictures Classics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>French Exit\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nOpens April 2\u003cbr>\nEmbarcadero Center Cinema, Shattuck (Berkeley), Regency (San Rafael), CinéArts at Palo Alto Square, AMC Saratoga (San Jose)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first many, many minutes of Azazel Jacobs’ adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s acclaimed 2018 comic novel, I felt like I’d fallen through a vortex into a long-ago world where the existential struggles of rich, talentless white people were assumed to be of universal interest and paramount importance. Was I actually expected to sympathize with the tussles of a cash-strapped Upper East Side matron (played by Michelle Pfeiffer, the screen epitome of white privilege in the ’80s and ’90s) and her vapid, amoral son (professional moper Lucas Hedges) to preserve their parasitic way of life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would be a good time to publish the results of my years of empirical research: Comedies play far better in a crowded theater than on my couch with an audience of two. (Individual laughs coalesce into a wave, which carries the viewer.) So do satires, but for a different reason: You don’t feel like a shmuck rooting for a character’s comeuppance when everyone else is, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those unfamiliar with the book, unhappy Frances and Malcolm Price run off by boat to France with their cat (who is hosting the spirit of their late husband and father, voiced by Tracy Letts). 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"content": "\u003cp>In our transient society, one sometimes forgets that home is a formative and permanent component of identity. This week’s films take us to the Mexican border, sacred Native American lands, the Middle East and the forests of Piedmont, Italy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Cousins and Kin\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThrough July 15\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcinematheque.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">SF Cinematheque online\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest expansive collection of experimental films streaming for free on the SF Cinematheque website is the curatorial handiwork of four indigenous filmmakers who banded together a couple years ago as the Cousin Collective to boost homegrown film artists. The deeply individualistic shorts, divided into four programs on view for a month apiece, deal largely with place, which is to say the filmmaker’s inherited, claimed and frequently denied place in the modern world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez’s satirical narrative \u003ci>A Song Often Played on the Radio\u003c/i> (2019) leads off the first show, Cycle 0 (streaming through April 15). A middle-aged bilingual horseman rides alone through the open country in Coronado’s footsteps, ostensibly looking for treasure (using a beach-combing metal detector) and dispensing aphorisms: “When you are hungry there is no bad food, even burritos created by gringos.” It’s a witty, pointed and enigmatic ramble through the present-day vestiges of cruel, dusty history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox Maxy’s \u003ci>San Diego\u003c/i> (2020) offers a more fragmented travelogue comprised of glimpses and scraps of daily life that the filmmaker calls “a reaction to colonialism and quarantine.” Social media postings of a Native American child’s dance and Dolly Parton singing an Easter song collide with on-the-fly ocean vistas and phone-filmed clips of friends. Best seen as a half-hour scrapbook, the film vibrates with a SoCal vibe of alienation, frustration and youthful intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Heiny-Srour-_The-Hour-of-Liberation-Has-Arrived_2_o.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1210\" height=\"941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13895046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Heiny-Srour-_The-Hour-of-Liberation-Has-Arrived_2_o.jpeg 1210w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Heiny-Srour-_The-Hour-of-Liberation-Has-Arrived_2_o-800x622.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Heiny-Srour-_The-Hour-of-Liberation-Has-Arrived_2_o-1020x793.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Heiny-Srour-_The-Hour-of-Liberation-Has-Arrived_2_o-160x124.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Heiny-Srour-_The-Hour-of-Liberation-Has-Arrived_2_o-768x597.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1210px) 100vw, 1210px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Heiny Srour’s ‘The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived,’ 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://arabfilm.eventive.org/arabwomen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cb>6 Days | 6 Nights: Revolutionary Arab Women in the Arts\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMarch 25–30\u003cbr>\nOnline\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As its title promises, the Arab Film & Media Institute’s spotlight on female filmmakers and artists blows away stereotypes and received wisdom about the (lack of) autonomy and influence of women in the Middle East. For most Americans, a dip into any of the programs on any day will deliver a bracing blow to anachronistic misperceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour’s \u003cem>The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived\u003c/em> (\u003cem>Saat El Tahrir Dakkat\u003c/em>) (1974) opens the series with a chunk of forgotten yet timely history. Srour traversed 500 miles of desert to document the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf’s successful late-’60s revolt against the British-supported Sultanate of Oman and the ensuing social progress. (Fortunately, oil no longer dictates Western “diplomacy.” Wait, what?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid’s multi-award-winning narrative debut \u003cem>As I Open My Eyes\u003c/em> (2015) follows a young woman’s struggle to bridge the gulf between her family’s old-school expectations and her passionate singing with a politically conscious rock band. The real-life Saudi writer Hissa Hilal, profiled in \u003cem>The Poetess\u003c/em>, demonstrates even more bravery by calling out an extremist religious leader on live television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egyptian director Hala Elkoussy is represented by three half-hour films, released between 2006 and 2010, that take us around and outside Cairo, where reverberations of the past infuse the present. Elkoussy’s work reminds us that listening is as important as looking, and often more important than speaking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 853px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/1.jpeg 853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/1-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/1-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/1-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘The Truffle Hunters.’ \u003ccite>(Sony Pictures Classics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Truffle Hunters\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nOpens March 26\u003cbr>\nEmbarcadero Center Cinema, Smith Rafael Film Center, AMC Saratoga 14\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw spent quite some time insinuating themselves into the good graces of three elderly Italian men who are presented to us as legends of a sort. The locals’ particular talent, honed across decades and aided and abetted by their enthusiastic dogs, is finding the much-coveted white Alba truffle in unmarked woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result of Dweck and Kershaw’s not-inconsiderable dedication is a lovely little movie, but set your expectations accordingly: \u003cem>The Truffle Hunters\u003c/em> is not a film for foodies. You’ll have to patiently wait an hour and seven minutes for the lone scene of someone enjoying a truffle, which has been sliced over his egg and cheese dish. Even if the theater is equipped with Smell-o-Vision, the documentary isn’t crafted to whet your appetite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor, for that matter, does it persuade us that we are deep inside the informal network of hunters, “sales reps,” middlemen, auctioneers and restaurateurs. We get the contours of the scene, and that may be enough to satisfy your curiosity (it did mine) or it may leave you with a sense of a sketch rather than a landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Truffle Hunters\u003c/em> is distinguished by a propensity for measured, fixed-camera shots, which have the effect of slowing time and setting us at the pace of its three sort-of protagonists. The shots don’t last as long as to push the film into the realm of “slow cinema,” mind you, but the strategy is nonetheless at odds with the verité approach generally favored by immersive documentaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prominent exception is the wonderfully pleasurable dog-cam sequence, in which a small camera is affixed atop the dog’s head. I didn’t realize I coveted the experience of being a dog, racing down a trail and rooting around in leaves and dirt, until that moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The love that emanates from the film is the owners’ adoration of their dogs, notably Titina, Birba and Fiona. At its heart, \u003cem>The Truffle Hunters\u003c/em> is a movie for dog lovers and dog owners. And people who wish, for one minute, that they were dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In our transient society, one sometimes forgets that home is a formative and permanent component of identity. This week’s films take us to the Mexican border, sacred Native American lands, the Middle East and the forests of Piedmont, Italy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Cousins and Kin\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThrough July 15\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcinematheque.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">SF Cinematheque online\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest expansive collection of experimental films streaming for free on the SF Cinematheque website is the curatorial handiwork of four indigenous filmmakers who banded together a couple years ago as the Cousin Collective to boost homegrown film artists. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Over 4 weeks, Rightnowish is looking at filmmaking in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893541/reel-talk-filmmaking-in-the-bay-area-rightnowish\">Learn more about the series here\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3233437392&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker \u003ca href=\"http://cheryldunye.com/services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheryl Dunye\u003c/a> is a legend. She’s best known for her seminal film, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118125/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Watermelon Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an innovative depiction of Black women in cinema; 2021 marks 25 years since it debuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In making that film, Dunye, a graduate of Temple University and Rutgers University, created her own style of filmmaking known as “Dunyementary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTBGPmL2mo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Dunye has put multiple films under her belt. Most of them do the work that Hollywood hasn’t: putting Black women and queer and trans people in leading roles. She’s also working on TV shows, directing episodes of \u003cem>Lovecraft Country\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Queen Sugar\u003c/em>, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunye, a proud product of Philadelphia, has made Oakland her chosen home for over a decade. 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So I was just doing my work, as Audre Lorde would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: So [I made] the first African-American lesbian feature because there was none… It took a while for people to understand and accept and see all that… It’s only now in retrospect where people are like, ‘oh my God, that’s groundbreaking.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What’s Dunyementery and how do you wish they would teach it in classes?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: So, the Dunyementary is Do-Your-Own-Mentary… If you are living in the margins and you’re invisible… you can do anything. So marginality is my strength in that sense. It allowed me to have my own sense of visibility, it help me create my own world, make my own cinema. So the Dunyementary is basically putting myself in my own picture with my own truth, using documentary elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: I was calling it the theory of 3’s, where you see me talking to you, in sort of a talking head style.. you see a vignette… and then you see text that says something, or is poetic or whatnot on a title card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: And if you didn’t understand who I was, or what I’m talking about at that point, then bye bye!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: [laughs] I like the break down.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: I really wanted to kind of put the truth of what my life was like. I’ve always been out. I was never in the closet or anything, so I really wanted to [show] a life that was my life, not coming out, lived, a little bit damaged, functional, dreaming, stuck on traffic, whatever I was doing. 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My mom had pictures from the forties and fifties and thirties. And I would just look at these things. I just dipped into myself again using my own stuff and putting that on top of some wonderful writing by [Misha Green], Sonya [Winton] and [Jonathan] Kidd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I love it. It’s like this thread of you being a scholar, a scholar of yourself, a scholar of art, a scholar of Philly… Your production company Jingletown Films is obviously influenced by Oakland. I’m wondering, how was the history of Oakland, of Jingletown specifically, influenced you and your filmmaking?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: I was living in Jingletown! Which is a section of Oakland in the Fruitvale area, I could see Fruitvale Station from my loft window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: Jingletown was named Jingletown because there were workers there who, back in the early 20th century, when they got paid, they had money in their pocket and it would jingle. 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She’s best known for her seminal film, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118125/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Watermelon Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an innovative depiction of Black women in cinema; 2021 marks 25 years since it debuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In making that film, Dunye, a graduate of Temple University and Rutgers University, created her own style of filmmaking known as “Dunyementary.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OiTBGPmL2mo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OiTBGPmL2mo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Since then, Dunye has put multiple films under her belt. 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My mom had pictures from the forties and fifties and thirties. And I would just look at these things. I just dipped into myself again using my own stuff and putting that on top of some wonderful writing by [Misha Green], Sonya [Winton] and [Jonathan] Kidd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I love it. It’s like this thread of you being a scholar, a scholar of yourself, a scholar of art, a scholar of Philly… Your production company Jingletown Films is obviously influenced by Oakland. I’m wondering, how was the history of Oakland, of Jingletown specifically, influenced you and your filmmaking?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: I was living in Jingletown! Which is a section of Oakland in the Fruitvale area, I could see Fruitvale Station from my loft window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl: Jingletown was named Jingletown because there were workers there who, back in the early 20th century, when they got paid, they had money in their pocket and it would jingle. 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It’s the sound of a woman being defined throughout the decades not by her own talents or worldwide fame, but rather by the monster she escaped before the most successful portion of her career had even begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, of course, joy in the two-hour film. It’s in stunning live performances, TV appearances, and the sweet relationship Turner has with her current husband, Erwin Bach. It’s also present in the inspiration Tina Turner has provided to other survivors of domestic violence throughout the decades. But \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> ultimately leaves the viewer with a serious moral conundrum. Are we willing to sacrifice the emotional and mental well-being of our musical icons for the sake of our own comfort and—even more uncomfortably—entertainment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IkVtLvflU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of how the press and public has demanded Turner endlessly revisit her past weaves throughout \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em>. We hear clips from her very first interview about Ike’s abuse, for a story originally printed in the Dec. 7, 1981 edition of \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine. “I was living a life of death,” she told then-music editor, Carl Arrington. “I didn’t exist. But I survived it. And when I walked out, I walked. And I didn’t look back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington recalls in \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> that “she wanted to just tell it and then forget it. It didn’t quite work out that way.” [aside postid='arts_13890087']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington’s understatement is writ large throughout the rest of the film, as we see Turner tolerate—and politely answer—question after (often inane) question about her ex-husband. She often laughs when his name comes up, but the interviews are transparently, consistently painful for her. Her grace and patience under fire is thoroughly impressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> explains that Turner’s tell-all book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568429.I_Tina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>I, Tina\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (co-written by Kurt Loder) came about as part of the ongoing effort to preempt questions about Ike. As her success exploded after the 1984 album \u003cem>Private Dancer\u003c/em>, Turner was besieged once more with queries about her abuser. “They’d bring up the same old stuff, over and over in every interview,” Turner’s manager Roger Davies recalls in the film. “We couldn’t stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner remembers, “Out of all the success I was having, why are they talking about Ike and Tina? I said to Roger, ‘I’m beginning to get really very depressed.’ And he said, ‘Well the only thing you can do is write a book.’ … I wasn’t interested in telling that ridiculously embarrassing story of my life. 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I don’t love that it’s always talked about, you see … This constant reminder is not so good, you know. I’m not so happy about it. So, do I want to sit at a screen and watch the violence and all the brutality? No. That’s why I haven’t seen it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Turner’s husband, Erwin Bach, does not sugarcoat matters when talking about the effect these kinds of questions have had on his wife during their 33 years together. “When you talk to journalists over and over and over, for 20, or 30, or 40 years,” Bach says, “memories come back. She has, partly, dreams about it. They’re not pleasant. So I think these are the things that come back to her when she opens that book. It’s like when soldiers come back from the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Turner has to re-state her position on the matter at the start of \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em>. “It wasn’t a good life,” she says. “It was in some areas, but the goodness didn’t balance the bad. So it’s not wanting to be reminded. You want to just leave that in the past. I don’t like to pull out old clothes. It’s old memories. You want to just leave that in the past and be done with it.” [aside postid='arts_13892800']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> is careful to give focus to the good that’s resulted from Turner’s lifetime spent reliving her trauma for the public. Fans are seen expressing gratitude for it. Playwright Katori Hall says of Turner’s life, “That story reached so many people who felt like they had to keep their secrets locked away, deep down.” And Turner’s friend Oprah Winfrey notes, “Nobody talked about sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse—abuse, period. Our generation is the generation that started to break the silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt that the insights Turner offers here, via old interviews, do offer revelations about how people become trapped in domestic abuse situations. “I felt obligated to stay there and I was afraid,” Turner says of her marriage and early career. “I felt very loyal to Ike and I didn’t want to hurt him. Sometimes after he’d beat me up, I’d end up feeling sorry for him. I was 23 years old or something like that. Early 20s. I was brainwashed. I was afraid of him. And I cared what happened to him. I knew that if I left, there was no one to sing. So I was caught up on guilt and fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the end, it’s impossible to leave \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> without a sense of enthralled awe. That’s not just because of Tina Turner’s personal resilience, it’s because of the sheer power of her vocals, her dancing, her talent, her focus and her unerring self-belief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movie is also an important reminder that, as a public, we must learn to honor the struggle of survivors without primarily defining them by it—especially if they’re asking over and over again to be allowed to move on. \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> reminds us that being inspired by other people’s battles shouldn’t require those sources of inspiration to repeatedly re-live their darkest days. 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On the day he lands the biggest gig of his career, Joe nearly dies—but then gets the chance to return to his body if he can figure out the purpose of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Docter, who co-wrote and co-directed the film with Kemp Powers, says the film was inspired by the emotional turbulence he experienced after writing and directing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/06/18/414701069/from-the-inside-out-a-lively-look-inside-a-young-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Inside Out\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having … so much success in [that] film, I found myself wondering: Why don’t I feel like my life is all wrapped up and solved in a nice bow? Why didn’t it fix everything?” Docter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Soul \u003c/em>has generated success of its own. The film won the Golden Globe award for best animated picture, and is nominated for three Academy Awards. But Powers, who’s also up for an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956750160/one-night-in-miami-humanizes-four-icons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>One Night in Miami\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> says \u003cem>Soul \u003c/em>is actually meant to challenge conventional notions of success and failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to help not just Joe, but the entire audience, understand that it’s not about winners or losers and that everyone’s life has value,” Powers says. “That was really a powerful driving force from the very beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Docter says the film’s message is that life has meaning that goes beyond personal ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The movie’s aim is really to say that we’re already enough,” he says. “We all can walk out of the door and enjoy life without needing to accomplish or prove anything. 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And no one would so much as push you to even consult with people from that community, let alone invite them in and be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while it’s easy to kind of take the cynical road, I saw it more as a really interesting opportunity, because when I flew up to Pixar and I sat down and I saw the nuggets of what would become \u003cem>Soul\u003c/em>, I really fell in love with the story that Pete was trying to tell. And it was a story that felt like it was about me, and it was a story that really wasn’t about race. That was one of the things that really, really excited me about this. … I tell people, yes, \u003cem>Soul \u003c/em>is a film [where] the majority of the characters are Black, but it’s not a “Black” film. We’re trying to tell this universal story through the specific prism of a Black man. And I think that was a really bold choice that I was relishing an opportunity to try to execute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Powers’ feedback to an early reel of \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Soul \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Powers: \u003c/strong>In the early reels, [Joe] seemed like the least interesting person in the film. … Part of it was, I think, because there had been such extreme caution and such a fear of doing things that might offend someone or upset someone, that instead there really hadn’t been much done [on the character]. I didn’t know anything about the guy. I didn’t really know anything about his family. It seemed like Joe was just a very, very lonely man who didn’t know anyone and had no friends. And so that just meant that his life had to be filled in. And, of course, it’s just the nature of being at Pixar, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a director or a designer or an artist, you use your life as fuel. So it was very easy for me [to] say, “Oh, he’s supposed to be a 45-year-old Black man from New York. What a coincidence! That’s what I am!” [And then] to start filling in a lot of those gaps with my own personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On researching depictions and beliefs about the soul for the film \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Docter:\u003c/strong> I talked to priests and rabbis and experts in Islam, Hinduism, as many of the main religions as we could find, to just see how these different traditions look at the soul and the afterlife and the world beyond our bodily forms. What we found was that most of them have a lot to say about what happens after we die—but very few talk about what happened before. So that meant we were kind of free to make stuff up, which is my favorite place to be. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask, “What is the soul?” most of them talk about the soul being ethereal, vaporous, non-physical, invisible. We wanted to hint at all that in our design—not only of the souls themselves, but the world they inhabit. And actually, interestingly, the first draft of the film … was a version entirely set in the “Great Before” [a fantastical place where new souls exist before they go to Earth]. There is no Earth-based stuff. It was all about observing life just through these memories and these visualizations of the world, trying to talk this other soul into going [to Earth]. But the more we developed it, the more we realized, if we’re going to talk about what makes life worth living, we’ve got to go interact with it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Film festival season arrives in tandem with the baseball season this year, which is welcome news for those who like to watch. (And if we learned anything in the last year, it’s that everyone likes to watch. Up to a point, of course.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might be asking where the films are coming from to light up the lineups at Cinejoy, SFFILM and the smaller April festivals waiting in the wings. That is, how did any movies get made during last year’s lockdowns? Yes, shooting was shut down after the first quarter of 2020, but directors, editors, composers, sound designers and postproduction technicians had all the time they needed to snip, shape, tuck, tweak and polish their footage. Throw in the films that postponed their releases and the pipeline is quite full, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.creatics.org/cinejoy/about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Cinejoy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMarch 20–30\u003cbr>\nVirtual\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay’s long-running annual smorgasbord is billing itself as “Cinejoy featuring the Artists & Films of Cinequest.” But the recipe is the same, namely a slew of independently made films by people you’ve never heard of—including a raft of world premieres—mixed with a slate of premieres and Q&s featuring stars like Gabriel Byrne (festival opener \u003cem>Death of a Ladies’ Man\u003c/em>), Julie Delpy (\u003cem>My Zoe\u003c/em>), Alec Baldwin (\u003cem>Crown Vic\u003c/em>), Rosario Dawson (\u003cem>This Is Not a War Story\u003c/em>), and Maverick Spirit Award recipients Sam Neill (\u003cem>Rams\u003c/em>) and Eddie Izzard (\u003cem>Six Minutes to Midnight\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/524498477\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more jaw-dropping debuts you’ll ever see, \u003cem>I’m an Electric Lampshade\u003c/em>, begins as an intriguing though conventional verité portrait of newly retired, happily married, 60-year-old accountant Doug McCorkle as he embarks on a song-and-dance career. Before you know it, we’re transported to a queer-positive Manila performing arts class where McCorkle’s transformation begins in earnest and the movie steps into the fabulous dreamland of music videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlem, NYC-based director and co-writer John Clayton Doyle was born in Oakland and raised in the East Bay burbs, and he successfully meshes middle-class stability and drag flamboyance into a lush fantasia. McCorkle delightedly takes his EDM clubland fantasy to the limit in the lavish Mexico City finale, applying a Leonard Cohen-ish spoken-word approach to sexualized lyrics. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By its triumphant end, \u003cem>I’m an Electric Lampshade\u003c/em> has long since abandoned documentary realism and leaves us wondering, not unhappily, where McCorkle’s footlight dream ends and Doyle’s tale-weaving begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003cem>I’m an Electric Lampshade\u003c/em> is best enjoyed with your dozen most uninhibited friends (or at a packed Castro Theater later this year, hopefully), Alex Liu and Leonardo Neri’s wonderful \u003cem>A Sexplanation\u003c/em> lends itself to a more intimate party. Intended as a conversation starter about sex and sexuality—even, or especially, for adults who’ve gotten this far with their shame, judgements, fears and myths intact—\u003cem>A Sexplanation\u003c/em> is an irreverent, informative and disarming road trip from Dolores Park to the Kinsey Institute (in Indiana) to Pornhub HQ to Saratoga High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu, a South Bay native and broadcast/online health reporter whose credits include KQED, is our charming guide and, more importantly, our surrogate. His “donation” to a Rutgers University study of pleasure and the brain makes for an especially vulnerable sequence, but his uncomfortable, revealing and inspiring conversations with his parents go even further. How 2021 is it that our best catalyst for coming clean about our sexual confusions and desires is a gay Asian American man in his mid-30s?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Sexplanation\u003c/em> deserves to be disseminated as widely as possible, although it’s too explicit for a TV broadcast (even in California or New York) and a tad too informal for a theatrical release (though it is kind of an ideal date movie). Classrooms and the web are its natural home, with word of mouth (insert pun here) essential. 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A taut dramatization of the events immediately preceding the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica that unfolds like a cascading nightmare in broad daylight, this Oscar nominee in the International Feature category masterfully strikes the tricky balance between personal travails and epic suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Žbanić centers her narrative on Aida Selmanagić (a powerhouse performance by Jasna Đuričić), a Bosnian Muslim teacher working as a translator for the (Dutch) UN peacekeepers during the Bosnian War. In the opening scene, as the officer in charge of the UN force assures the mayor that air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs are scheduled for the following morning, Aida is coolly professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bombing doesn’t take place, and the UN fails at every subsequent turn, from refusing to allow more than a few hundred fleeing refugees access to the safety of the UN base, to the Dutch colonel’s misguided efforts to pacify the bullying Serbian Gen. 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His “donation” to a Rutgers University study of pleasure and the brain makes for an especially vulnerable sequence, but his uncomfortable, revealing and inspiring conversations with his parents go even further. How 2021 is it that our best catalyst for coming clean about our sexual confusions and desires is a gay Asian American man in his mid-30s?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Sexplanation\u003c/em> deserves to be disseminated as widely as possible, although it’s too explicit for a TV broadcast (even in California or New York) and a tad too informal for a theatrical release (though it is kind of an ideal date movie). Classrooms and the web are its natural home, with word of mouth (insert pun here) essential. 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A taut dramatization of the events immediately preceding the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica that unfolds like a cascading nightmare in broad daylight, this Oscar nominee in the International Feature category masterfully strikes the tricky balance between personal travails and epic suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Žbanić centers her narrative on Aida Selmanagić (a powerhouse performance by Jasna Đuričić), a Bosnian Muslim teacher working as a translator for the (Dutch) UN peacekeepers during the Bosnian War. In the opening scene, as the officer in charge of the UN force assures the mayor that air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs are scheduled for the following morning, Aida is coolly professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bombing doesn’t take place, and the UN fails at every subsequent turn, from refusing to allow more than a few hundred fleeing refugees access to the safety of the UN base, to the Dutch colonel’s misguided efforts to pacify the bullying Serbian Gen. Mladić, to the unseen higher-ups who are unavailable to take a call at a pivotal juncture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Serbian Army advances through the UN-declared safe zone right up to the gates of the base, Aida’s focus shifts from serving as an intermediary between the Dutch soldiers and her people to saving her husband and sons from impending catastrophe. Violence is never far away in \u003cem>Quo Vadis, Aida?\u003c/em>, and its impact is undiluted by taking place off-screen. The upshot is that we’re never given a grisly excuse to look away, and thus are enlisted as witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are ineffectual witnesses, of course, though Žbanić is careful not to indict us for complicity. But anyone with a trace of conscience or compassion will feel the blow anyway. We can and do lament the West’s failure to act in 1995, and yet there are current injustices, in other places, where raising our voices could make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Let’s get this out of the way, first. Yes, \u003cem>Zack Snyder’s Justice League\u003c/em> is just over four hours long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four. Hours. Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, somehow, it feels like the right length for a film that has moved mountains—and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thewrap.com/justice-league-snyder-additional-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly spent around $70 million beyond its original, blockbuster budget\u003c/a>—to reinvent one of the biggest superhero movie bombs in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s the thing: It actually succeeds. In more ways than I ever expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now, the backstory is a bit of superhero film legend. Director Zack Snyder fought a lot of second-guessing by the film studio while making \u003cem>Justice League\u003c/em>, an important movie in building out the universe of superhero characters from DC Comics. Perhaps the disappointing public response to Snyder’s take on Superman in 2013’s \u003cem>Man of Steel \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice\u003c/em> in 2016 had spooked the corporate suits at Warner Bros. Pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Snyder’s daughter died in early 2017, the director left \u003cem>Justice League\u003c/em>‘s production and let Joss Whedon, director of Marvel’s first two \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movies, take over. Judging by Snyder’s version, Whedon must have completely retooled the film, creating a schizophrenic two-hour cut with loads of additional scenes which sometimes felt like two different movies playing at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an avalanche of terrible reviews and a reported $300 million budget, the film lost many millions for Warner Bros. But passionate fans and some stars from the film kept hope alive—yes, there were billboards, social media campaigns and signs towed by airplanes—convincing Warner Media that releasing Snyder’s mega-version would bring a badly-needed superhero event to its corporate kin, streaming service HBO Max.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I may sound like the biggest of comic book/superhero story geeks, but it must be said: \u003cem>Zack Snyder’s Justice League\u003c/em> is a much better movie. Especially since there are some critics—and film fans—who would likely prefer a bullet in the head than to sit through four hours of CGI-augmented fist fights and flying sequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understand, I’m usually quite cynical about director’s cuts and expanded versions of theatrical releases. As much as I love James Cameron’s \u003cem>Aliens\u003c/em> and the extra scenes he added in his director’s cut, the original theatrical release was a much leaner and focused story. After watching the new director’s cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s \u003cem>Godfather III\u003c/em>, I wondered why he even bothered—none of its narrative problems were cured by Coppola’s new take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most theatrical releases contain the movie’s best scenes, regardless of what else gets tossed in through a director’s cut. But not so with \u003cem>Zack Snyder’s Justice League\u003c/em>, which offers an entirely different narrative, different beginning, different ending and wider scope, to give a glimpse of the larger story he was driving towards all along. All this, married with the kind of dazzling visual sequences that once made Snyder the perfect custodian of the DC Extended Universe in film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone is a lot of the hokey humor that Whedon seemed to insert to offset criticisms of Snyder’s relentlessly dark vision (Whedon’s name has also disappeared from this new film’s credits, suggesting they exorcised every bit of his material).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superman and Cyborg don’t joke about getting knocked on their behinds at the film’s finish. Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Batfleck—I mean, Ben Affleck’s Batman—don’t trade quips about how a son of Atlantis talks to fish. And, mercifully, a scene where Flash lands on Wonder Woman’s breasts after saving her from falling debris—an awkward bit of sexualization that star Gal Gadot \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GraceRandolph/status/1278402984716705794?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly refused to film\u003c/a>, forcing Whedon to use a stunt double—has also been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder’s take is also an R-rated version. There is more blood and gore than typical big-budget superhero stories; Batman and other characters use the f-word and there is a scene where more than one hero actually murders a villain. Welcome to the Snyderverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM-Bja2Gy04\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes sense that a movie which exists because of the fans would work so hard to please them. So there are depictions of cool characters from the comics we haven’t yet seen on the big screen. 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There’s a few surprises for fans, so I won’t detail much here; but it helps clarify a head-scratching moment from \u003cem>Batman v. Superman\u003c/em> and includes a cameo from a character who remains a bit of a disappointment in the Snyder era of DC superhero films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other problems here, too. This new \u003cem>Justice League\u003c/em> is still packed with a lot of computer-generated effects that make the action feel unreal. Aside from Gadot’s Wonder Woman and the Amazons at the film’s start, the female characters here are mostly mopey and have little purpose beyond supporting the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The essential story—a group of misfit heroes must get out of their own way to team up and defeat a world-threatening villain backed by another, badder villain—is also the story from Marvel’s first \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em>‘ movie in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it is four. Hours. Long. Frankly, this should have been a streaming project all along, given how much story Snyder wanted to cram into a theatrical feature. It’s tough to imagine audiences sitting in a theater for a movie this long, so you can’t help wondering what Snyder was thinking when he shot this much material in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joss Whedon’s reputation has taken a hit since the original \u003cem>Justice League\u003c/em> was released, with Fisher in particular alleging that Whedon was abusive on set and oversaw story changes which reduced or eliminated the roles of non-white characters in the film. (Indeed, Black characters like Cyborg’s parents and Flash’s love interest Iris West reappear or get more screen time in \u003cem>Zack Snyder’s Justice League\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner Bros. has denied Fisher’s allegations that executives there hindered an investigation into studio executives’ role in enabling Whedon. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 50 years after it was released, shocking moviegoers across the U.S., \u003cem>Midnight Cowboy \u003c/em>has endured as one of the most original and heartbreaking films in American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The John Schlesinger drama made Jon Voight a star and solidified Dustin Hoffman’s status as one of his generation’s greatest actors, and it became the first and only X-rated film to win the Academy Award for best picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the film isn’t easy—and neither was making it, as Glenn Frankel reveals in his new book, \u003cem>Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic\u003c/em>. It’s a fascinating look at the process that led to one of the 20th century’s most iconic works of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894189 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a-768x1157.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a-1360x2048.jpg 1360w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/cowboy_custom-f9fcf39d0be42160417e4ae3122c4fa16f68377a.jpg 1689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Midnight Cowboy \u003c/em>had its genesis in the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The book wasn’t obvious fodder for a movie adaptation—the story of Joe Buck, a young Texas man who travels to New York in hopes of becoming a male escort, the novel featured “scenes of heterosexual and homosexual intercourse, sadomasochism, fellatio, gang rape, prostitution, and illegal drug use,” Frankel notes, and was “so bleak, troubling, and sexually raw that no ordinary film studio would go near it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Artists, however, wasn’t an ordinary film studio, and Schlesinger, reeling from the commercial disappointment of his movie adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s \u003cem>Far From the Madding Crowd\u003c/em>, proved willing to embark on the “especially risky gamble” of turning it into a movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film as we know it almost didn’t happen. Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman had difficulty finding a screenwriter who wanted to take the project on—Truman Capote turned them down, and Gore Vidal told them the novel was “trash” and that they should adapt his novel \u003cem>The City and the Pillar \u003c/em>instead, Frankel recounts. But Waldo Salt agreed to write the screenplay, and the producer and director turned to casting the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t easy, either. “Schlesinger didn’t want either Voight or Hoffman in his movie, and looked far and wide for alternatives,” Frankel writes. He eventually changed his mind, and started shooting the film, although that turned out to be a slog: “The one thing practically everyone involved remembers about the filming of \u003cem>Midnight Cowboy \u003c/em>is that the man in charge didn’t seem to enjoy it very much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shoot itself was a bizarre one—the crew used “stolen shots” in the movie’s New York scenes, meaning the extras in the movie weren’t actually aware they were being filmed. The extras in the Texas shoot were aware, but they weren’t told what the movie was about, and many were incensed once they found out, Frankel writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was a surprise hit upon its release despite some skeptical reviews from the likes of Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael. Nevertheless, it won Schlesinger an Oscar for directing, although Hoffman and Voight lost out to John Wayne, who praised the acting in \u003cem>Midnight Cowboy\u003c/em> while dismissing the film as a whole with a characteristically homophobic remark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Histories of filmmaking can easily turn into inside baseball, interesting only to film students and the most dedicated cinéastes, but Frankel does a remarkable job telling the story of how the movie happened. He’s such a gifted storyteller that you don’t even have to be familiar with the film to find the book fascinating. (You really should see the movie, though, if your emotional state allows it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2IdfBkkj0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frankel provides ample context for the movie, painting a vivid picture of New York in the 1960s, when the city was down on its heels, with whole neighborhoods—including one used as a setting for the film—essentially being written off. He also points out how remarkable the film’s treatment of homosexuality was—although Voight’s and Hoffman’s characters are straight, Voight’s character has sex with men to earn money, a shocking plot point at the time. “[G]ay characters could appear openly on screen but only in situations that made clear their misery and depravity and that resulted in dire consequences for all involved,” he writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Frankel points out in his excellent analysis of the film, it was hardly unproblematic. “The movie at times emits a noxious homophobia” and “is not kind to women,” he argues. 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"content": "\u003cp>A year ago, on the verge of shelter in place, country singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash offered an encouraging reminder to the world’s artists, writers, musicians and other creatives: that “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rosannecash/status/1238700345548627969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote \u003ci>King Lear\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back now, things didn’t work out quite so well for most artists in today’s pandemic. With jobs lost, income evaporated and safety nets thinner than ever, the Bay Area’s arts sector was lucky to simply hang on (let alone write a 350-page tragedy).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year into shelter in place, we asked Bay Area artists how the pandemic has affected their creative practice. Several themes emerged: loss of work, loss of inspiration, pivoting to streaming, tackling side hustles and mental health challenges. At the same time, some were able to take advantage of the new pace of life and continued to create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear from them below—and if you’re an artist who wants to join the conversation, \u003ca href=\"#typeform\">let us know here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"A man writes in a notebook\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894049\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg-768x614.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Illustration by Vida Kuang)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Losing Inspiration to Create\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For many artists we talked to, the dearth of outside stimulus and the gloppy elasticity of time has meant a severe loss of inspiration. 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I’ve got friends and colleagues who’ve done things online, and even when I want to be supportive, it’s been hard to make myself attend some of those events because it’s kind of heartbreaking.”[aside postID='arts_13893812']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tanya-rey.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Rey\u003c/a>, Oakland writer and author\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like somehow maybe things just take longer right now. I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired. And it seems like things just seem to take longer than I think they’re going to take, and eat up my day in this way that I just don’t anticipate. And so I can’t necessarily like make time for it, because there is no schedule, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a day-to-day basis, I’m constantly frustrated that I’m not writing enough … and the harder I am on myself as an artist, that doesn’t breed good grounds for productivity, and it doesn’t breed the best creative self that I know that I can access. So I know that in order to actually make something worthwhile and to enjoy that process, I can’t be too hard on myself. It’s only going to take me twice as long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s been really challenging. I think that we are experiencing a collective grief. And within that grief, there’s our own personal grieving. I know I’ve lost people, and certain relationships have been strained by this time and distance, and all of that compounds itself. And so I have certainly have had days where I just want to be on the couch or in bed.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://traceyrolandelli.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Rolandelli\u003c/a>, Oakland painter and artist now staying with and helping family in Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an artist who was having two solo shows a year, it has affected me financially. Even my online sales have suffered. It has also affected me creatively, because I haven’t been able to attend live life drawing sessions, which I did weekly. That also was a community near and dear to my social life. A tightknit group that meets at an artist’s house every Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I’m high-risk (autoimmune disease related), I also have been affected by not feeling as comfortable going out to sketch in public. To be honest, while my area might not be as bad as other parts of the country with conspiracy-theorist anti-maskers, I’m nervous enough now around other people, due to my risk, if I became sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/800x600_Singer_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman sings into a microphone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894050\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/800x600_Singer_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/800x600_Singer_Vida_3.15.jpg-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/800x600_Singer_Vida_3.15.jpg-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Illustration by Vida Kuang)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Surprisingly Productive Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>While many artists found their creative energies tapped out this year, for some, the new speed of life—one without concerts, tours, commutes and everyday distractions—allowed them to give more space to their practices, and let their work grow in unexpected ways. With little control over anything else in 2020, these artists relished the opportunity to reflect more deeply on their art—and their work flourished as a result.—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ekishola.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Eki’Shola\u003c/a>, Santa Rosa musician, physician and founder of \u003ci>UNMUTE\u003c/i> magazine\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4161882285/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I released the album [\u003ci>Essential\u003c/i>], and the challenge is, ‘Okay I have this album, now what? How do I get it out there?’ … But for better or worse, we’re all plugged in more now. So I just went on a virtual tour. And the beauty of it was that I was able to play for audiences in Japan and the UK and across the country all from my music studio. That was wonderful. 2020 was actually probably one of the more prolific years for me in terms of the opportunities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It forced me to think outside the box a bit more. If I were to have toured it would have been to music venues. But this time, I was able to really meld the three things I’ve always wanted to do, which is music, mindfulness and wellness. … I ended up being able to do performance, share my story, teach a mindfulness tool and talk about health—all in one hour. And I did that for health care organizations, for colleges, for all different kinds of groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.janiceleelazaro.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Janice Lee Lazaro\u003c/a>, San Leandro singer/songwriter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/916356599&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that I no longer have to commute and am spending more time at home, I’ve been dedicating my extra time to writing music and releasing my original songs. With that being said, it has been a great experience to finally be able to devote more time to music, making me feel happier, productive and fulfilled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge has been learning how to pivot fully remote. I learned to adapt, however, it was a bit of an adjustment to rely on wifi to keep up with Zoom communications with folks. Maintaining relationships has been a huge shift for me to adjust to.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loreneanderson.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lorene Anderson\u003c/a>, Oakland visual artist\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been scheduled for a \u003ca href=\"http://kimperialfineart.com/lorene-anderson-cusp-february-22-march-31-2021/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">solo show\u003c/a> that was supposed to open last fall. So I was working really hard, but when the shutdown happened, everything kind of came to a screeching halt. … After a few days, I decided I wanted to keep the thread of my regular studio practice. I go five days a week, and I was lucky that it was still accessible—I have friends whose buildings were locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Lorene_Anderson-untitled_24-18x24-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"891\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894040\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Lorene_Anderson-untitled_24-18x24-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Lorene_Anderson-untitled_24-18x24-1-800x594.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Lorene_Anderson-untitled_24-18x24-1-1020x757.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Lorene_Anderson-untitled_24-18x24-1-160x119.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Lorene_Anderson-untitled_24-18x24-1-768x570.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorene Anderson, ‘Cleaving Grain,’ 2020; acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 inches. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt really compelled to look over the past 30 years of my old work. I don’t know if it’s that feeling of mortality and ‘What’s going to happen to all of us?’ but elements of old work have started creeping into my current work. … Sometimes I feel like I’m just hurtling through my life and studio practice, and to stop and make thoughtful decisions and reflections was something I hadn’t done in a long time, if ever. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can be very self-deprecating and doubtful about stuff and maybe not so brave and I think [the pandemic] has made me get rid of that BS, and I feel braver, in a way, about my own work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Painter_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"A painter sizes up her subject\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Painter_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Painter_Vida_3.15.jpg-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Painter_Vida_3.15.jpg-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Illustration by Vida Kuang)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Year of the Pivot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Although it hasn’t been easy by any means, some artists have used their time in the pandemic to successfully change gears. Out of necessity, musicians, writers and other performers have learned new skills and become full-on media production houses, filming, editing, recording and organizing online collaborators from their communities and even all over the world. The road has been bumpy, but these evolutions have opened new avenues and expanded their creative practices.–Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sahbakia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sahba Aminikia\u003c/a>, San Francisco classical musician, composer and founder of the Flying Carpet Festival\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2020 has been one of the busiest years for me. I worked on seven different projects, but each of them ended up being becoming basically a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sahbakia.com/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube or Facebook video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/W2WxvoK3LJw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the context of my festival \u003ca href=\"https://www.flyingcarpetfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flying Carpet\u003c/a>, we work with 5,000, 6,000 children [in Turkey] every year. And this year, we’ve been able to reach out to maybe 200 children through online means, which brings a lot of issues because they’re in an area where data is expensive. … This year, we are planning on creating a home edition of this online Carpet Festival and reaching out to embassies and organizations for the funds to create a magical box that we can send to children in that region. And each box would include 10 to 12 modules created by different artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things I learned is that my work has always been in the line of human human rights work.[aside postid='arts_13860293']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think artists have an essential job in unifying the nation and unifying the people in a real sense, instead of just unifying your own allies or people who think like you. I think it’s the time for artists to reach out to rural areas, to areas where entertainment exists—maybe even good lifestyle exists, privileged lifestyle—but culture does not exist. And it’s a very good time to separate culture from entertainment because culture definitely has an educational aspect to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.autumnallee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Autumn Allee\u003c/a>, Oakland opera singer, voice coach and creative producer of Exquisite Corpse Projects\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been considering doing a production company for a while, even before the pandemic. The concept was bringing together of artists from completely different mediums to create theater, which is my medium. And so I have a friend who’s a ceramicist. I have a friend who’s a playwright, a friend who is a classical music composer, that kind of thing. Completely different mindsets, completely different artists, bringing them together and create something completely unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMYnPlBr3N/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the pandemic happened, I had a couple of goals for what I wanted for the project. I didn’t want to waste artists’ time and I wanted to pay them something. So I came up with an idea to create these short one-minute videos. And each artist watched and responded to another artist’s video, so it creates this chain of videos, each by a different artist taking something from the previous video and transforming it through their own lens and through their own medium, et cetera. Then we presented it and we we got funds through donations, essentially. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A year ago, on the verge of shelter in place, country singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash offered an encouraging reminder to the world’s artists, writers, musicians and other creatives: that “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rosannecash/status/1238700345548627969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote \u003ci>King Lear\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back now, things didn’t work out quite so well for most artists in today’s pandemic. With jobs lost, income evaporated and safety nets thinner than ever, the Bay Area’s arts sector was lucky to simply hang on (let alone write a 350-page tragedy).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year into shelter in place, we asked Bay Area artists how the pandemic has affected their creative practice. Several themes emerged: loss of work, loss of inspiration, pivoting to streaming, tackling side hustles and mental health challenges. At the same time, some were able to take advantage of the new pace of life and continued to create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear from them below—and if you’re an artist who wants to join the conversation, \u003ca href=\"#typeform\">let us know here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"A man writes in a notebook\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894049\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/4_5_Writer_Vida_3.15.jpg-768x614.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Illustration by Vida Kuang)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Losing Inspiration to Create\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For many artists we talked to, the dearth of outside stimulus and the gloppy elasticity of time has meant a severe loss of inspiration. Add in guilty feelings from being unproductive, and creative struggles were very, very common.—Gabe Meline\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://chrisblackdance.wixsite.com/dance/about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Black\u003c/a>, San Francisco choreographer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, dance is such a social endeavor. Especially how I’ve made work over the years, it’s just usually very collaborative. And the isolation and the space and combination kind of just made it harder and harder to bother, honestly, or to focus on it, or feel like I was getting anything out of it. … I think the Trump years were kind of hard on me in that department as well, at times. Just with the juggernaut of all of it, my creativity definitely went up and down a lot, even before this. It’s just been harder and harder to focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s only going to take me twice as long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s been really challenging. I think that we are experiencing a collective grief. And within that grief, there’s our own personal grieving. I know I’ve lost people, and certain relationships have been strained by this time and distance, and all of that compounds itself. And so I have certainly have had days where I just want to be on the couch or in bed.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://traceyrolandelli.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Rolandelli\u003c/a>, Oakland painter and artist now staying with and helping family in Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an artist who was having two solo shows a year, it has affected me financially. Even my online sales have suffered. It has also affected me creatively, because I haven’t been able to attend live life drawing sessions, which I did weekly. That also was a community near and dear to my social life. A tightknit group that meets at an artist’s house every Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I’m high-risk (autoimmune disease related), I also have been affected by not feeling as comfortable going out to sketch in public. 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