Month: February 2020

Bong Joon-ho’s film about families, class and keeping secrets won best picture. It’s the first time a film in a language other than English has won the top prize.

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Chinese filmmakers began making movies about the lives of the Chinese in America since World War I. And there’s a direct line from them to some of Sunday’s critically acclaimed Chinese American films.

When media called him one of the only actors of color nominated for an Oscar, many Spaniards mocked the term or got angry.

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Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey have worked together on creative projects since they were kids. Their new book — illustrated with 250+ stamps — is about family, farm life, determination and hard work.

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The very earliest movies were all long takes, but the immersive minimalism of one-shot films carry extra appeal in an era of congested platforms and CGI overload.

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Tola Rotimi Abraham’s wrenching novel follows a four young children in Lagos, Nigeria, whose comfortable life is blown apart when their mother loses her job, and their father abandons them.

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Jess Faulstich and AJ DiCosimo write a humorous list of alternative titles to the Oscar-winning movies for Best Picture.

This year’s best picture race doesn’t have as clear a frontrunner as it sometimes has. But just as Moonlight came through on a shocker of an evening in 2017, Parasite might pull it off this year.

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Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s documentary centers on a Chinese-run factory in Ohio. Justin Chang reviews Beanpole. Eilene Zimmerman writes about her ex-husband’s drug-related death in Smacked.

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We’ll ask the Pulitzer prize winner three questions about warnings — including some odd travel guidance, a weird weather heads up, and an unexpected language advisory.

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