Good for them. The approach by the New York Times and Washington Post was much wimpier. They are cowards.
This is going to be like the 1/6/21 insurrection. There will be “alternative facts”. The Trump cult will believe the victim is at fault while the rest of know she was murdered by ICE. That’s what the video shows.
I have been watching a lot of French films lately. I started by watching Bertrand Tavernier’s My Journey Through French Cinema. It’s over three hours long and is an outstanding overview by a director who knew many of the people he discusses. I started to watch his follow up Journeys Through French Cinema which is over seven hours long but stopped to watch some actual films.
For the most part, I didn’t watch films by the most famous directors such as Truffaut, Godard, Bresson and Renoir since I had seen many of their films. I concentrated on films by lesser known directors like Claude Sautet and Jacques Deray. I am partial to crime films.
I did watch a few films by my favorite French directors. I saw Robert Bresson’s early
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945). This was made before his mature films featuring non-professional actors and has a great performance by Maria Casares. It’s not one of his best films and is conventional compared to his later work but it’s still worth watching.
Then there is Elena and Her Men (1956) by Jean Renoir. The best part is the performance by Ingrid Bergman. Otherwise, it’s an above average story about Elena and her many suitors. It’s in color too unlike most Renoir films.
I enjoyed La Poison directed by Sascha Guitry (1951). It has an unusual sequence showing Guitry thanking his actors. The film is about a husband and wife who despise each other and both plot murdering their spouse. It doesn’t sound like it but it’s actually a comedy. The husband is played by Michel Simon who does a great job of making a despicable character likeable.
All three are available on the Criterion Collection discs which is how I watched them. They always do an outstanding job.
I didn’t like Lynyrd Skynyrd back in the 1970s. Their use of the Confederate flag really turned me off (and still does).
However, I reassessed them in the 2010s, thanks to a series of great reissues (with bonus tracks and notes) of their outstanding albums. The music is great. I still don’t know what to think overall.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Inside the Band’s Complicated History With the South
I remember watching this on TV as it happened. I assume Irsay was drunk. He keeps shouting at someone out of view that he won’t talk to him. Of course, he did move the Colts soon after this so his talk was crap. It’s on the disc of the 30 for 30 on the Baltimore Colts Marching Band.
James Van Der Zee took great photos of Harlem a century ago. I first became familiar with his work through the book The Harlem Book of the Dead, first published in 1978.
Sad! 