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Former Editor, Documentary Mag/IDA
Freelance writer: POV Magazine, Deadline, Zocalo Public Square, Filmmaker et al
Nonprofit consultant: LA Commons
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And the Summer Olympics in 28...
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Despite the dark days ahead, I eagerly await the energizing power of new creations in 2025. See you on the other side of the calendar! Peace and love to all!
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7) Bloomsday Celebration (The Hammer, LA)
😎 Herbie Hancock/Headhunters 50th Anniversary (Hollywood Bowl)
9) Hell’s Kitchen (Broadway, NYC)
10) Urban Bushwomen: Scat! (Mark Taper Forum, LA)
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My Favorite Performances:
1) Waiting for Godot (Geffen Playhouse)
2) The Comet/Poppea (Geffen Contemporary)
3) Moon Mine (Pomona College, CA)
4) Solange Knowles: El Dorado Ballroom: Contrapuntal Counterpoints (Disney Hall, LA)
5) Sudan Archives (The Hammer, LA)
6) Fat Ham (Geffen Playhouse, LA)
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12) Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street Cultural Center/Greenwood Cultural Center (Tulsa, OK)
13) PST: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (The Redcat, LA)
14) PST: Open Sky (Benton Museum/Pomona College, CA)
15) PST: Breath(e) (The Hammer)
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7) Mickalene Thomas: All about Love (The Broad, LA)
😎 Glenn Ligon/Jasper Johns (Wesleyan Gallery, CT)
9) John Waters: The Pope of Filth (Academy Museum)
10) Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea in the 60s and 70s (Hammer Museum, LA)
11) Plaza Botero/Musee de Antiquero (MedellÃn, Colombia)
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My Favorite Exhibits:
1) Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame Museum (Cleveland, OH)
2) Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy (LA)
3) Comuna 13 (MedellÃn, Colombia)
4) PST: Olafur Eliasson: Open (Geffen Contemporary/LA)
5) Desire to See: Photographs by Agnes Varda (Fahey Klein Gallery, LA)
6) Simone Leigh (LACMA, LA)
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My Favorite Books–I actually read more books this year than in years previous; here's my top six:
1) Prophet Song–Paul Lynch
2) Trust–Hernan Diaz
3) There There–Tommy Orange
4) The Magnificent Ruins–Nayantara Roy
5) Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma–Claire Dederer
6) The Rediscovery of America–Ned Blackhawk
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5) Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
6) First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
7) Murs Murs (Agnes Varda, 1980)
😎 Foreign Parts (J.P. Sneidecki, Verena Paravel, 2010)
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1) A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia, 2021)
2) Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
3) The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg, 2021)
4) Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
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My Favorite Films that I Discovered for the first time in '24 (that were released before '23):
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1) Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
2) Eno
3) Dahomey
4) No Other Land
5) Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
6) A Photographic Memory
7) Union
😎 Flipside
9) Nocturnes
10) Farming the Revolution
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My Favorite Docs: I did attend a fair number of fests, either virtually (Sundance, Big Sky, BlackStar, DOC NYC) or in-person (Full Frame, Hot Docs), so I have a sizable smorgasbord to choose from. Here’s what I whittled down to:
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As with last year’s offering of lists, I’m behind on the fourth quarter tsunami of fiction releases, but I will share my top five Favorite Fiction Films:
1) All We Imagine As Light
2) Nickel Boys
3) Sing Sing
4) Perfect Days (released in US in February)
5) I Saw the TV Glow
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Sorry! Meant "No Other Land."