The relationship between characters and their Afro-textured hair has become a focus of directors and stylists, who are mindful of Hollywood’s restrictive past.
Tag: Movies
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Where’d All the Method Acting Go?
The Method taught actors to channel the complexity and messiness of human emotion into a performance. Why is that so hard to find in the movies today?
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It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait.
At a friend’s urging, our critic saw the “mondo chic” 1981 film by the French director Jean-Jacques Beineix, ahead of a revival. He was thrilled.
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Reconsidering the Spice Girls: How Manufactured Girl Power Became Real
Even as the girl group topped the charts, it was dismissed as a pop confection. Twenty-five years later, its legacy is still being written.