Nell Minow's Blog, page 44
November 17, 2016
Bleed for This
We watch sports for the skill.
We love sports for the heart.
Sports stories give us heroes whose determination and courage is constantly tested. The athletes who face those challenges -- who live for those challenges -- can help us understand and face our own. Vinny Pazienza was a great boxer, but what made him heroic was not his skill in the ring or his unprecedented wins in three different weight classes. It was his comeback from injuries he got in a deadly car crash, including a broken...
We love sports for the heart.
Sports stories give us heroes whose determination and courage is constantly tested. The athletes who face those challenges -- who live for those challenges -- can help us understand and face our own. Vinny Pazienza was a great boxer, but what made him heroic was not his skill in the ring or his unprecedented wins in three different weight classes. It was his comeback from injuries he got in a deadly car crash, including a broken...
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The Edge of Seventeen
A psychiatrist once told me that just as an infant can have fevers that would be lethal in an adult, a teenager can have symptoms that would be evidence of psychosis at any other stage of life. Mood swings, the feeling that everyone is looking at you, disordered thinking, bizarre appearance: you might be having some sort of breakdown, or you just might be an adolescent. Stories about that intensely traumatic age connect to those of us who have been through it and those who are in the midst of it...
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Interview: Stephen Apkon and Marcina Hales on “Disturbing the Peace,” a Moving and Inspiring Documentary about Israelis and Palestinians Working Together
The song from "South Pacific" gets it right. Fear, bigotry, don't come naturally. "You have to be carefully taught." The moving and inspiring new documentary, "Disturbing the Peace," tells the story of people who were "carefully taught" to hate each other, Israelis and Palestinians, but have learned that they share more than they could imagine, especially when it comes to to devastating grief and a deep sense of responsibility for causing grief to others. I first saw the film at Ebertfest last...
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Sing Saturday! A Family Treat for Thanksgiving Weekend
A treat for the whole family -- a free preview of "Sing" the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The new animated film from the creators of "Despicable Me" features the voices of Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExoV...
Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres today announced a Thanksgiving weekend event for audiences of all ages: “SingSaturday,” a celebration of free screenings of the new event film from Illumination at 200...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExoV...
Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres today announced a Thanksgiving weekend event for audiences of all ages: “SingSaturday,” a celebration of free screenings of the new event film from Illumination at 200...
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A Short Film From Sand Artist Ilana Yahav
Israeli "sand artist" Ilana Yahav creates works that are part art, part ballet, part animation, with story/pictures accompanied by music that draw in the viewer. The original soundtrack for this film is composed, played and sung by Jeanne Rabin....
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November 16, 2016
Interview: Eddie Redmayne, Star of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
Eddie Redmayne stars in the first film from the Harry Potter universe to be set the the past, the first to be set in the United States, and the first with a screenplay by author J.K. Rowling, who has promised that this film will be followed by four sequels. In an interview, Redmayne talked about creating his character, Newt Scamander, a Magizoologist. "One of the things I love is Newt, perhaps at the beginning of this film is certainly more capable of interacting with creatures than he is with...
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November 15, 2016
Trailer: Natalie Portman in “Jackie”
Interview: “Pete’s Dragon” Screenwriter David Lowery
"Pete's Dragon" screenwriter David Lowery answered my questions about updating and transforming the Disney classic for a live-action 21st century remake, and how being the oldest of nine children helped him learn how to tell stories. The movie is available on DVD/Blu-ray November 29, 2016.
How did you decide what elements of the original were important to you to keep and what new elements you wanted to add?
The only elements I wanted to keep...
How did you decide what elements of the original were important to you to keep and what new elements you wanted to add?
The only elements I wanted to keep...
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November 14, 2016
Movie Aliens — How Do the Creatures in “Arrival” Compare?
If you like movies about aliens, be sure to read Stephanie Merry's great look at 40 years of movie extraterrestrials in the Washington Post.
The aliens in “Arrival” are spectacular, and that’s no small feat. In most “first contact” movies, the otherworldly creatures almost always let us...
The aliens in “Arrival” are spectacular, and that’s no small feat. In most “first contact” movies, the otherworldly creatures almost always let us...
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New From Audible: Born a Crime Audiobook by Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show”
"The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah has written a new memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, available as an audiobook from Audible, and we are pleased to be able to share a clip. In the Mail & Guardian, Darryl Accone wrote:
Born on February 20 1984, Trevor fell foul of any number of apartheid-era laws: to start, his parents had broken the Immorality Act (the 1927 version of which is the apt epigraph to the book).
In the...
Born on February 20 1984, Trevor fell foul of any number of apartheid-era laws: to start, his parents had broken the Immorality Act (the 1927 version of which is the apt epigraph to the book).
In the...
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