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Displaying all articles tagged:
The Undersung
the lost canon
Apr. 8, 2021
Anne Beatts Was Always More Interesting Than John Hughes
Every teen series and movie that followed Beatts’s
Square Pegs
owes it, and her, a debt of total gratitude.
By
Jen Chaney
the undersung
June 17, 2020
What We Lost When Euzhan Palcy Left Hollywood
A Dry White Season
is evidence of what the industry missed out on because it wasn’t ready for her fiercely decolonized perspective.
By
Alison Willmore
the undersung
June 17, 2020
Euzhan Palcy Remembers the Fight to Make
A Dry White Season
in Hollywood
“I knew why I was making movies, and I knew the kind of movies that Hollywood was making. There was no room for Black folks there.â€
By
Hunter Harris
books
Feb. 6, 2020
The Best New Novel Was Written 90 Years Ago
An unearthed book by the Harlem Renaissance’s Claude McKay is a modern masterpiece.
By
Molly Young
appreciations
Jan. 10, 2020
Clare Torry’s Voice Is Seared Into Your Brain Whether You Know It or Not
Her performance on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky †manages to express the full range of human emotion without relying on words.
By
Craig Jenkins
appreciations
Jan. 9, 2020
Gillian Armstrong and Her Protagonists Redefined the Modern Movie Heroine
Her work was vibrant and searching and messy in the best sense, and she put women’s psychology onscreen in ways that were never reductive.
By
David Edelstein
appreciations
Jan. 8, 2020
Alice Childress Didn’t Defang Her Plays, and Producers Said No
Any list of great American playwrights is incomplete without her — she saw deep into history, into the theater, into blackness, into whiteness.
By
Helen Shaw
the lost canon
Jan. 7, 2020
It’s Time We All Heard the Music of Lili Boulanger
One of France’s great composers, she was ignored because she was a woman who died young.
By
Justin Davidson
the lost canon
Jan. 7, 2020
Juano Hernández Should Have Been a Hollywood Legend
An Afro-Latino actor, he remains curiously absent in reexaminations of black identity throughout film history.
By
Angelica Jade Bastién
the lost canon
Jan. 6, 2020
Beauford Delaney Very Nearly Disappeared from Art History
As a black, gay painter, even when he was celebrated, it was not as an equal to his contemporaries.
By
Jerry Saltz