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Cary Fukunaga and Abraham Attah Take On BEASTS OF NO NATION

October 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Cary Fukunaga and Abraham Attah Take On BEASTS OF NO NATION

I loved the rapport between writer/director Cary Fukunaga and his discovery, Abraham Attah. If there was ever a more impressive feature film debut than Attah’s in BEASTS OF NO NATION, I can’t remember it. This searing, heartbreaking adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s novel of the same name casts Attah as Agu, a normal, happy kid in… Read More »

Tagged With: Abraham Attah, book to screen, Cary Fukunaga, child abuse, child soldier, Civil War, Idris Elba, practical special effects, tracking shot, Uzodinma Iweala, West Africa

SOMETIMES IN APRIL

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

In SOMETIMES IN APRIL, Raoul Peck (Lumumba), has taken the specific story of the Rwandan genocide of April 1994 and made manifest the universal implications of the events. There is plenty of culpability to go around and Peck is not shy about pointing fingers, but he is also not shy about pointing up the greater… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

Idris Elba and TAKERS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Idris Elba and TAKERS

Idris Elba has several thriving careers going for him, not the least of which is giving powerful performances in both feature films and on television. When I spoke with him on August 8, 2010, he explained how his career in music informs his thespian efforts, how and why he wanted to make his TAKERS character, a daring… Read More »

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Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL

Raoul Peck is a softspoken man, but the gentle timbre of his voice does nothing to disguise the passion he feels for SOMETIMES IN APRIL, which he wrote and directed for HBO. This look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994, an event that took a million lives in 100 days, was a topic he was… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

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