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Movie and TV Reviews In a time when race relations have become the hot button subject in an election year, The Birth of a Nation is a timely reminder of a deplorable shared history. ByJulian Roman Oct 5, 2016 Will Girl on the Train Ride to the Top of the Fall Box Office?
slave rebellion led by Nat Turner begins in Nate Parker’s directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, a blood-spattered Nat (Parker) gazes up at the new dawn, reckoning that by that hour on any other day he’d be two rows into his daily work picking cotton, with a half-full sack....
yet Parker never introduces a skeptic into his drama.The Birth of a Nationresolves to simplify Turner’s life and revolt into a religious parable about Old Testament righteousness and eye-for-an-eye moral justifications. To be sure, the entire production feels a little too self-important, and...
with farm implements—represented an Old Testament inversion of slave owners’ logic:Those who classify others as inhuman have relinquished the right to be thought of as human themselves.“The Birth of a Nation” is a revenge movie for an aggrieved time in U.S. history, when those who would...
and Sony converged in a lounge off Main Street in Park City to begin their pitches for Nate Parker‘s The Birth of a Nation. Hours earlier, the Nat Turner biopic had premiered to uproarious applause at the Eccles Theater, and WME Global head Graham Taylor, the lead agent for the film,...
Still, Griffith’s movie proved a boon for the KKK, which had practically disappeared by the 1870s, with the end of Reconstruction. However, in December 1915 it was revived inGeorgiafollowing the opening of the movie inAtlanta. Inspired byThe Birth of a Nation, Col.William J. Simmons, a...
General News Oct 5, 2016 1:22 pm By Rebecca Ford How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Dishonors Rosa Parks and Black Female Activists (Guest Column) The author of 'At the Dark End of the Street,' a history of sexual violence and the civil rights movement, says Nate Parker's movie "ove...
His “The Birth of a Nation” is a repudiation of Griffith’s vision, a black director’s rendering of an 1831 slave rebellion that is likely to play into America’s conversation about race. But the movie, which opens Oct. 7, is shadowed by its own controversy: Parker’s acquittal in ...