Matt Snee's Blog, page 62

Currently watching.

Currently watching – Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, 2020. Zhao is a Chinese-American filmmaker born in 1982.

Currently reading.

Currently reading – A Country for Dying, by Abdellah Taïa, translated by Emma Ramadan. Born in 1973, Taïa is a Moroccan writer who lives in France. This slim novel tells the story of two Moroccan prostitutes in Paris.

Currently reading.

Currently reading – Saga, Volumes 8 and 9, by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan. Decided to finish this series once and for all.

Currently watching.

Currently watching – The Killing Floor, directed by Bill Duke, 1984. Born in 1943, Duke is an American actor and filmmaker famous for his supporting roles in crime and action movies. This film depicts the struggles of an African-American migrant as he tries to start a interracial union in Chicago after WW1.

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Currently watching – All These Creatures, directed by Charles Williams, 2018. Williams is an Australian filmmaker. This film won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Currently watching.

Currently watching – Desert Hearts, directed by Donna Deitch, 1985. Born in 1945, Deitch is an American television and film director. This film was one of the first American features to depict a lesbian relationship in a positive light.

Currently reading.

Currently reading – Corregidora, by Gayl Jones. Born in 1949, Jones is an African-American writer who was discovered by Toni Morrison when Morrison was an editor at Random House. This novel was published in 1975, when Jones was only 26. But her strange personal life has made her fall out of fashion.

Currently watching.

Currently watching – The Exterminating Angel, directed by Luis Buñuel, 1962. Born in Spain in 1900, Buñuel was an iconoclastic filmmaker who later became a naturalized Mexican citizen. This film depicts a high society dinner party that gets weird when the guests realize they can’t leave.

Currently reading.

Currently reading – On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan. Born in 1948, McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter, and a bit of an institution across the pond.

Currently reading.

Currently reading – A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. Born in 1930, Hansberry was the first African-American playwright to have a play performed on Broadway. Had she not died of pancreatic cancer at age 34, there is no telling what she could have accomplished.