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In the ensuing years, he’s adopted, and mastered, the difficult format of the multi-screen gallery installation—as those who caught the U.S. premiere of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13817198/dont-let-its-title-confuse-you-playtime-isnt-all-fun-and-games\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Playtime\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at Fort Mason a couple years ago will attest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That show dealt with money, power and privilege, and so does \u003cem>Lessons of the Hour\u003c/em>, albeit from a vastly different perspective: Julien’s subject is Frederick Douglass, the powerhouse activist and influential intellectual who remains one of the towering figures of the 19th Century. 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"content": "\u003cp>I doubt I’m alone when I say that this year has been a blur: Sometimes it feels like only yesterday that I was going to the office or heading outside without a mask, and sometimes it feels as though an eternity has passed. This past week I watched two absorbing new documentaries that both seem to bend and distort our sense of the passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, which is actually called \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, spans more than two decades. The other one, titled \u003cem>Totally Under Control,\u003c/em> focuses on the very moment we’re living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Totally Under Control\u003c/em> is the latest documentary from the prolific Alex Gibney, who directed it with Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan. It’s a cool but damning account of our government’s response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/01/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 outbreak \u003c/a>that crams several months’ worth of increasingly grim headlines into two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTzgf9i4vw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s as persuasive and well researched as you’d expect from Gibney, the director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395579453/church-of-scientology-calls-new-hbo-documentary-bigoted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Going Clear \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003cem>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room\u003c/em>, it might feel redundant to anyone who’s been glued to the news lately. But it’s still bracing to see the details laid out as forcefully and with such measured anger as they are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using socially distanced camera setups to ensure everyone’s safety, the filmmakers sat down with journalists, doctors, health experts and government officials. Nearly all of them agree that a deadly airborne virus capable of asymptomatic transmission would always have posed a formidable threat in the U.S. But they also agree it was the president’s relentless downplaying of that threat and his disdain for science that led us to where we are now, with a devastated economy and more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/22/911934489/enormous-and-tragic-u-s-has-lost-more-than-200-000-people-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200,000 Americans dead.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie focuses on several key areas where efforts to fight the virus broke down, starting with the technical flaws and bureaucratic logjams, involving the CDC and the FDA, that frustrated early attempts at mass testing. This was followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820795727/can-the-u-s-crowdsource-its-way-out-of-a-mask-shortage-no-but-it-still-helps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortages of protective equipment\u003c/a> for frontline healthcare workers, not helped by the Trump administration’s refusal to intervene on the states’ behalf. And then of course there’s the ongoing nationwide debate over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/21/880832213/yes-wearing-masks-helps-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">face coverings\u003c/a>; a medical supply executive who says he voted for Trump in 2016 expresses shock that wearing a mask in a pandemic could have become so intensely politicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glut of information presented here is dizzying but lucid. We hear about the sidelining of knowledgeable scientists like the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier and federal vaccine expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/06/920985099/government-scientist-tops-up-whistle-blower-complaint-and-quits-nih\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Rick Bright \u003c/a>when they tried to sound the alarm. And then there’s the irony that Trump himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/03/919898777/timeline-what-we-know-of-president-trumps-covid-19-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tested positive\u003c/a> for the virus just a day after this movie was completed. That’s how fast the news is these days: Even a documentary this urgent, and this obviously timed for the upcoming election, can’t help but feel already out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with its occasional repetitions and oversights, \u003cem>Totally Under Control \u003c/em>gripped me from moment to moment. In a very different way, so did \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, the first documentary feature directed by Garrett Bradley. It’s a co-production between \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and Amazon Studios, and it’s one of the most sublime and beautiful documentaries I’ve seen this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of \u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is a Black woman named Sibil Fox Richardson, who goes by Fox Rich. In 1997 she planned to open a hip-hop clothing store in Shreveport, La., with her husband, Rob. When an investor backed out, the desperate couple tried to rob a bank. No one was hurt and no money was stolen. Rich, who drove the getaway car, got a plea bargain and served three and a half years. Rob was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 60 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq6Hh07oLvs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich began shooting videos of herself and of their sons so Rob could catch up with all the little moments he’d missed: birthdays and graduations, amusement park trips and pool parties. It added up to a treasure trove of home-movie footage that Rich handed over to Bradley several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Bradley began filming new footage of Rich, now a successful businesswoman; her now-grown children; and her tireless efforts to secure her husband’s release. The result is this sprawling yet intensely intimate chronicle, shot in black-and-white, of a couple’s enduring love and a family’s 21-year pursuit of justice. In one moving scene, Rich speaks about her thwarted hopes that Rob would be released in time to see his sons grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is about the cruelty of growing up without a father and growing older without a husband. It’s also about the injustice of a prison system that Rich has spent much of the past two decades speaking out against—by filing appeals and making phone calls on her husband’s behalf, and by giving speeches for the benefit of other people in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without revealing the outcome of the story, I’ll say that I found it emotionally overwhelming both times I watched the movie—at Sundance earlier this year, where it won a directing prize, and again at home this past week. It runs a short 81 minutes, but by the end, you feel so acutely connected to this family’s joy and pain that years really do seem to have passed. I cherished every moment of this movie, because each one stands in for so many others that have been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Totally+Under+Control%27+And+%27Time%27+Are+Two+Very+2020+Documentaries&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I doubt I’m alone when I say that this year has been a blur: Sometimes it feels like only yesterday that I was going to the office or heading outside without a mask, and sometimes it feels as though an eternity has passed. This past week I watched two absorbing new documentaries that both seem to bend and distort our sense of the passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, which is actually called \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, spans more than two decades. The other one, titled \u003cem>Totally Under Control,\u003c/em> focuses on the very moment we’re living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Totally Under Control\u003c/em> is the latest documentary from the prolific Alex Gibney, who directed it with Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan. It’s a cool but damning account of our government’s response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/01/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 outbreak \u003c/a>that crams several months’ worth of increasingly grim headlines into two hours.\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/YzTzgf9i4vw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YzTzgf9i4vw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>While it’s as persuasive and well researched as you’d expect from Gibney, the director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395579453/church-of-scientology-calls-new-hbo-documentary-bigoted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Going Clear \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003cem>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room\u003c/em>, it might feel redundant to anyone who’s been glued to the news lately. But it’s still bracing to see the details laid out as forcefully and with such measured anger as they are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Nearly all of them agree that a deadly airborne virus capable of asymptomatic transmission would always have posed a formidable threat in the U.S. But they also agree it was the president’s relentless downplaying of that threat and his disdain for science that led us to where we are now, with a devastated economy and more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/22/911934489/enormous-and-tragic-u-s-has-lost-more-than-200-000-people-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200,000 Americans dead.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie focuses on several key areas where efforts to fight the virus broke down, starting with the technical flaws and bureaucratic logjams, involving the CDC and the FDA, that frustrated early attempts at mass testing. This was followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820795727/can-the-u-s-crowdsource-its-way-out-of-a-mask-shortage-no-but-it-still-helps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortages of protective equipment\u003c/a> for frontline healthcare workers, not helped by the Trump administration’s refusal to intervene on the states’ behalf. And then of course there’s the ongoing nationwide debate over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/21/880832213/yes-wearing-masks-helps-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">face coverings\u003c/a>; a medical supply executive who says he voted for Trump in 2016 expresses shock that wearing a mask in a pandemic could have become so intensely politicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glut of information presented here is dizzying but lucid. We hear about the sidelining of knowledgeable scientists like the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier and federal vaccine expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/06/920985099/government-scientist-tops-up-whistle-blower-complaint-and-quits-nih\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Rick Bright \u003c/a>when they tried to sound the alarm. And then there’s the irony that Trump himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/03/919898777/timeline-what-we-know-of-president-trumps-covid-19-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tested positive\u003c/a> for the virus just a day after this movie was completed. That’s how fast the news is these days: Even a documentary this urgent, and this obviously timed for the upcoming election, can’t help but feel already out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with its occasional repetitions and oversights, \u003cem>Totally Under Control \u003c/em>gripped me from moment to moment. In a very different way, so did \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, the first documentary feature directed by Garrett Bradley. It’s a co-production between \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and Amazon Studios, and it’s one of the most sublime and beautiful documentaries I’ve seen this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of \u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is a Black woman named Sibil Fox Richardson, who goes by Fox Rich. In 1997 she planned to open a hip-hop clothing store in Shreveport, La., with her husband, Rob. When an investor backed out, the desperate couple tried to rob a bank. No one was hurt and no money was stolen. 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It added up to a treasure trove of home-movie footage that Rich handed over to Bradley several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Bradley began filming new footage of Rich, now a successful businesswoman; her now-grown children; and her tireless efforts to secure her husband’s release. The result is this sprawling yet intensely intimate chronicle, shot in black-and-white, of a couple’s enduring love and a family’s 21-year pursuit of justice. In one moving scene, Rich speaks about her thwarted hopes that Rob would be released in time to see his sons grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is about the cruelty of growing up without a father and growing older without a husband. It’s also about the injustice of a prison system that Rich has spent much of the past two decades speaking out against—by filing appeals and making phone calls on her husband’s behalf, and by giving speeches for the benefit of other people in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without revealing the outcome of the story, I’ll say that I found it emotionally overwhelming both times I watched the movie—at Sundance earlier this year, where it won a directing prize, and again at home this past week. It runs a short 81 minutes, but by the end, you feel so acutely connected to this family’s joy and pain that years really do seem to have passed. I cherished every moment of this movie, because each one stands in for so many others that have been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rescheduled, rejiggered and reimagined, the fall movie calendar nonetheless looks a lot like it does in a normal year: Festivals lined up like planes on a tarmac, with new releases dotting the horizon. It’s getting to be desperate days for theaters, but film fans are still well supplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mvff.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mill Valley Film Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nOct. 8–18\u003cbr>\nStreaming and drive-in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has torpedoed two signature elements of Marin County’s laidback extravaganza: the live concerts at Sweetwater linked to music-based films and the red-carpet parade of Oscar-hopeful stars. The latter, at least, has been safely transposed online, which means you can take in interviews with genuine giants from your couch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stargazer alert includes tributees Dame Judi Dench (\u003cem>Blithe Spirit\u003c/em>), Italian immortal Sophia Loren, Viola Davis, Anthony Hopkins (\u003cem>The Father\u003c/em>) and Kate Winslet (\u003cem>Ammonite\u003c/em>). The other honorees are Regina King (\u003cem>One Night in Miami\u003c/em>), local thespian Delroy Lindo, Irish actress and writer Clare Dunne (\u003cem>Herself\u003c/em>) Aaron Sorkin and Frieda Lee Mock (\u003cem>Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13887615\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy MVFF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>MVFF is embracing the in-person, drive-in model to a far greater degree than any other local festival since COVID-19 hit. The 52-foot screen at Lagoon Park in Marin Center will host the world premiere of \u003cem>Blithe Spirit\u003c/em> on opening night, the North American premiere of Gia Coppola’s \u003cem>Mainstream\u003c/em>, Chloé Zhao’s highly touted \u003cem>Nomadland\u003c/em>, Braden King’s \u003cem>The Evening Hour\u003c/em>, Francis Lee’s \u003cem>Ammonite\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart\u003c/em> on closing night. And a \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> movie from 1980, if you missed it the first—or ninth—time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One MVFF staple unaffected by the pandemic is the presence of several notable local documentary filmmakers. Erika Cohn (\u003cem>The Judge\u003c/em>) constructs \u003cem>Belly of the Beast\u003c/em> around stalwart survivor-turned-activist Kelli Dixon and Cynthia Chandler of the Oakland-based human rights organization Justice Now. Their persistence and courage leads to legislation outlawing the despicable practice of California Department of Corrections-sanctioned surgical sterilization. \u003cem>Belly of the Beast\u003c/em> also opens Oct. 14 at the Roxie virtual cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a lighter, brighter note, Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider (\u003cem>Havana Curveball\u003c/em>) deliver a double album of Cuba libre with \u003cem>Los Hermanos\u003c/em>/\u003cem>The Brothers\u003c/em>. Violinist Ilmar Gavilán has lived in the States and performed around the globe for years, while his younger brother, pianist Aldo López Gavilán Junco, thrived in Havana. 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Once an up-and-coming Black playwright who maybe, possibly, could have been The Voice of Her Generation, now she’s just another scuffling New York writer with a day job as a teacher, middling contacts, no partner and no path forward. Worse, she’s lost her voice as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most surprising and endearing thing about the protagonist of Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical indie comedy, played by the writer-director, is how square she is. Blank hasn’t made herself a cooler-than-thou rebel doling out putdowns to lesser beings. She’s on the wrong side of hipdom, as everyone points out, including her blunt high school students and the unhoused dude on her Harlem block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/RRpGNnaDzeE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Radha is a big-city Black woman, so neither self-pity nor self-delusion survive very long in her vicinity. She pushes ahead on a new track, reinventing herself as a rapper with, ahem, mixed results. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rescheduled, rejiggered and reimagined, the fall movie calendar nonetheless looks a lot like it does in a normal year: Festivals lined up like planes on a tarmac, with new releases dotting the horizon. It’s getting to be desperate days for theaters, but film fans are still well supplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mvff.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mill Valley Film Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nOct. 8–18\u003cbr>\nStreaming and drive-in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has torpedoed two signature elements of Marin County’s laidback extravaganza: the live concerts at Sweetwater linked to music-based films and the red-carpet parade of Oscar-hopeful stars. The latter, at least, has been safely transposed online, which means you can take in interviews with genuine giants from your couch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stargazer alert includes tributees Dame Judi Dench (\u003cem>Blithe Spirit\u003c/em>), Italian immortal Sophia Loren, Viola Davis, Anthony Hopkins (\u003cem>The Father\u003c/em>) and Kate Winslet (\u003cem>Ammonite\u003c/em>). The other honorees are Regina King (\u003cem>One Night in Miami\u003c/em>), local thespian Delroy Lindo, Irish actress and writer Clare Dunne (\u003cem>Herself\u003c/em>) Aaron Sorkin and Frieda Lee Mock (\u003cem>Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13887615\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/01anomadland_rec709_100nits_239FF_still_01_20200723_R2_rgb_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy MVFF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>MVFF is embracing the in-person, drive-in model to a far greater degree than any other local festival since COVID-19 hit. 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"content": "\u003cp>Inspired, at least in part, by critic Stanley Kauffman’s challenge to gay playwrights to ditch all the hinting and coding and veiled metaphor so as to honestly and openly depict the lives of homosexuals in their work, Mart Crowley’s \u003cem>The Boys in the Band \u003c/em>debuted off-Broadway in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The structure was simple and not, to any regular theatergoer, unfamiliar: Over the course of an evening, characters gather, get drunk and turn on one another. Things get said that cannot be unsaid. Secrets are revealed. Curtain, house lights up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference, of course, was that 1. It was a group of gay men doing all that gathering and drinking and lashing out, and 2. The lives of gay men in 1968 being what they were, most of the lashing taking place on stage turned out to be self-flagellation. These characters were caustically funny, yes, but they were also wracked with guilt and shame and self-hatred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play was a hit, and was made into a stagey movie directed by William Friedkin in 1970. The movie was not a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were many reasons for that, but surely one of them must have been what happened in the year that fell \u003cem>between \u003c/em>the debut of the play and the premiere of the movie: the 1969 Stonewall riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood had changed. To many theatergoers in 1968, schlepping into the city from Scarsdale or Ronkonkoma to take in “the homosexual play” must have seemed like a way to dip a toe into the bohemian counterculture that \u003cem>Life \u003c/em>magazine was always going on about. After the Stonewall uprising, however, the queer community was flush with a sense of righteous anger and defiance. Suddenly, Crowley’s gaggle of inward-turning, neurotic, self-loathing yet exceedingly comfortable (mostly) white men no longer seemed like a bold statement. They felt like broad caricatures from the darkest, most self-conscious corner of the closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crowley’s decision to center a play on the lives of gay men in 1968 \u003cem>was \u003c/em>important, and remains so, in terms of media representation of marginalized groups. Depictions of queers in entertainment have generally followed the same slow, steady series of steps, over time, that depictions of women and people of color have:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we’re the villain—the enemy that the (white, straight, male) hero must vanquish, to re-establish the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, we’re the victim—the poor pitiable soul that the (white, straight, male) hero must selflessly defend (or, all too often, avenge) to establish his virtue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, we’re the ally—the sidekick, the sassy friend who fires off a snappy line to encourage the hero to chase his dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, if we’re lucky, after years of struggle, we get to be our own hero, telling our own stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Boys in the Band\u003c/em> jumped the line. Crowley placed his gay men at the center of the stage, at the center of their own stories, and did so with an honesty that wasn’t interested in defensiveness, apology or self- justification. That’s because, crucially, the lens through which audiences saw the play’s action didn’t belong to the straight world, and made no concessions to it. The play barely even acknowledged the straight world, at least not in a manner that had characters railing against oppressive homophobia. But then, it didn’t need to, as Crowley’s point is that his characters have so internalized the cultural revulsion for homosexuality that they’ve become their own villains, victims and, only grudgingly, allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, both the play and the film have had their vocal defenders, but for a long time, many in the queer community held them in low esteem. Queer theater and queer cinema, which grew defiant in the years after Stonewall, took on a new sense of urgency and rage as AIDS ravaged the community. In the face of the epidemic, Crowley’s comfortable, cashmere queens trading their tired barbs seemed wildly inessential, even campy, and glib lines like “Show me a happy homosexual and I’ll show you a gay corpse” took on a new patina of tastelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film version of \u003cem>The Boys in the Band\u003c/em> that debuts today on Netflix is an adaptation of the brief, widely praised all-star, all-queer 2018 Broadway run that marked its 50th anniversary. I say adaptation; it’s more a cut-and-paste, as the entire Broadway cast remains intact, reprising their respective roles, along with director Joe Mantello. Attempts have been made to flesh out the play around its edges—the film begins with a montage of the various characters going about their day before heading to the birthday party. 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Depictions of queers in entertainment have generally followed the same slow, steady series of steps, over time, that depictions of women and people of color have:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we’re the villain—the enemy that the (white, straight, male) hero must vanquish, to re-establish the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, we’re the victim—the poor pitiable soul that the (white, straight, male) hero must selflessly defend (or, all too often, avenge) to establish his virtue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, we’re the ally—the sidekick, the sassy friend who fires off a snappy line to encourage the hero to chase his dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, if we’re lucky, after years of struggle, we get to be our own hero, telling our own stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Boys in the Band\u003c/em> jumped the line. 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And when she inevitably infuses her literalist adaptation of feminist Gloria Steinem’s memoir \u003cem>My Life on the Road\u003c/em> with dreamily fantastic sequences—catapulting a smugly sexist TV interviewer into a tornado out of \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em>, for example—more often than not they land with a thud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/fLD6m9moheY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, \u003cem>The Glorias\u003c/em> (a two hour-plus extravaganza made for theatrical release) exudes a gravitational pull and amasses an irresistible if intermittent power as it wends its way from Gloria’s childhood with a dancing-on-the-edge-of-broke father and a chronically anxious (and thwarted journalist) mother. Her early career is infuriating, if unsurprising: After a sojourn in India following her graduation from Smith College, Steinem endures a wave of casual sexism from Manhattan magazine editors before \u003cem>and\u003c/em> after she publishes a landmark exposé of her undercover stint as a Playboy bunny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Glorias\u003c/em> casts four actresses at different ages and stages of Steinem’s life who, from time to time, converse with each other on a Greyhound bus of the mind. That idea works about as well as you’d expect. 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The slender lines between journalism and activism, and activism and diatribes, are in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cem>The Social Dilemma\u003c/em>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nStreaming on \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Orlowski (\u003cem>Chasing Ice\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Chasing Coral\u003c/em>) constructed his environmental documentaries on breathtaking, globe-hopping visuals, so it’s quite a come-down to be stuck in stark, unfurnished rooms with a parade of earnest talking heads. \u003cem>The Social Dilemma\u003c/em>, which lifts the curtain on the various curses of social media, is especially annoying for those of us who were bored to numbness 20 years ago (or more) by the “wisdom” and “vision” of tech boy wonders with bad haircuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmaker rounds up a retinue of former executives and high-level engineers from the usual suspect companies who’ve seen the light—actually, the darkness—of algorithmic persuasion, behavioral manipulation, smartphone addiction and adolescent maladjustment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These successful, smug men (the Greek chorus does include one female techie and a couple female professors, who only serve to underline Silicon Valley’s homogeneity), who profited enormously from the rise of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest and others, sound the alarm on platforms and devices. Surely it’s coincidental that the mavens now have children whose access to platforms and devices they carefully manage and restrict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a respite from the parade of interviews, Orlowski intersperses the hokey but effective drama of an imaginary suburban family whose youngest, impressionable members are mesmerized by the beeps, buzzes and likes emitted by their smartphones. \u003cem>The Social Dilemma\u003c/em> makes some valuable points, but Orlowski seems oblivious to a major contradiction: His cautionary immersion in the psychology of manipulation employs a wall-to-wall soundtrack to keep the viewer on edge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and if you’re wondering, the haircuts haven’t improved since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-UVSD_SG_00210_rgb_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13886719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-UVSD_SG_00210_rgb_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-UVSD_SG_00210_rgb_1200-800x333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-UVSD_SG_00210_rgb_1200-1020x424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-UVSD_SG_00210_rgb_1200-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-UVSD_SG_00210_rgb_1200-768x319.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacey Abrams in ‘All In: The Fight For Democracy.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amazon Studios)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cem>All In: The Fight for Democracy\u003c/em>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nStreaming on \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FRSNBLL\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Prime Video\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be hard to discern if the numerous political documentaries released in recent weeks are aimed at the hardcore base of informed newsies or the broader population that sees the effects of policies but isn’t interested in the behind-the-scenes battles. Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés’s documentary about the organized efforts to suppress votes going back to the end of Reconstruction skillfully speaks to both groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stacey Abrams, who would have won the election for governor of Georgia two years ago except for her Republican opponent’s multi-pronged strategy to screw hundreds of thousands of voters out of their rights, is our clear-eyed guide through this illuminating, infuriating doc. But author and historian Carol Anderson steals the show as the film’s righteous, impassioned conscience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Abrams campaign and the theft of that election in broad daylight comprise the emotional climax of \u003cem>All In\u003c/em>. The film’s centerpiece, however, which Garbus and Cortés spotlight with a megawatt bulb, is the Roberts Court’s 2013 gutting of the long-standing Voting Rights Act. 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"content": "\u003cp>Coming out to join the crowd at the Castro for a hot-and-heavy Frameline screening—with every delectable connotation that suggests—is off the table this year. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.frameline.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">44th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival\u003c/a>, revamped and rescheduled from its perennial Pride Month residency, is entirely (with the exception of tonight’s drive-in opener, \u003cem>Shit & Champagne\u003c/em>) an online affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making the scene to see and be seen is a thing of the past, and the TBD future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When sheltering in place became the canon of the county, Frameline hustled to produce a condensed Pride Showcase in June that raised spirits and cash via an online and drive-in program. 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Where she triumphs, don’t you know. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The psychological thriller \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.frameline.org/festival/film-guide/through-the-glass-darkly\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Through the Glass Darkly\u003c/a>\u003c/em> follows a lesbian mom in small-town Georgia investigating the disappearance of young women—including her daughter. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.frameline.org/festival/film-guide/the-obituary-of-tunde-johnson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Obituary of Tunde Johnson\u003c/a>\u003c/em> takes on racism, homophobia and police brutality through the recurring-yet-never-identical nightmare of a Black teenager’s last day on earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/nohardfeelings3_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"876\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13886520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/nohardfeelings3_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/nohardfeelings3_1200-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/nohardfeelings3_1200-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/nohardfeelings3_1200-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/nohardfeelings3_1200-768x561.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘No Hard Feelings.’ \u003ccite>(Frameline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other standouts in the program include German-Iranian filmmaker Faraz Shariat’s feature debut, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.frameline.org/festival/film-guide/no-hard-feelings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">No Hard Feelings\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which won the Teddy Award for best LGBT film at the Berlin Film Festival in February. 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