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“If you are in the US, open the TV app and look for the section in the Watch Now tab called
Black in America.
You can watch for free for a limited time, and buy to own the films at reduced prices too…These films are available in the TV app for anyone to watch, no TV+ subscription required.
The films include recent releases such as ‘Emanuel’ and ‘Brian Banks’, and older classics like ‘The Black Power Mixtape’ and ‘Ali’.
The movie ‘Just Mercy’ if free for all.
“Black Like Me” John Griffin 1961 would be a better use of your time I think. But, you would have to READ it…..
I am wondering about “Central Park.” I am a serious admirer of good animation. Not just the pictures themselves or how well and completely animated the characters are, but also the stories, personalities, the dialog: all that make movies of any kind worth watching. And for resting my brain, those that have an element of magic, adventure and humor… and are watchable for people of all ages above 7.
One that I have found most brain-refreshing as well as beautifully made is the series “Dragons, Race to the Edge” in Netflix. It run for six seasons (still available) and was made by the same people that created and produced the “How To Tame Your Dragon” series of three movies. It fits, more or less chronologically, between the first and second movie. It’s production values are on a pair of those in the movies themselves: the unusually relatable and quirky characters that keep things always interesting just by being “themselves,” the detail of the images, the credible physics of objects in motion (except that no one of the “our heroes” group is ever seriously hurt even when falling from great heights… as happens often to some of them), the amazing aerobatics, the shifting, dynamic point o view, everything in the episodes is of the best quality I can imagine or seen before in cartoons. And I have seen many.
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Here’s Macworld’s review: https://www.macworld.com/article/3546334/central-park-review.html
Nathan Parker
Oh, well. “Central Park” probably needs some time to find its right balance between how much song and dance and how much story telling. “Bob’s Burgers” has its moments. I am more of an”Adult Swim” person when I am not refreshing my brain. Futurama is still the all-time best for me in this respect, because its creator, Matt Groening, always had a point to make and made it very well while keeping it funny. And as to relatively recent full-feature movies, I really love the ones by Miyazaki, Hatanaka and the rest of the Ghibli crowd and also those amazing ones from Laika Studio, when it comes to basking in the magic of movie-making art.
(Hmmm, that came out a bit on the pompous, gushing side, but I really mean it.)
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I haven’t heard about the “TV app”. What is it, were can I get it? Or do I have it already but don’t know it? Does it come preinstalled on all Macs?
As I mentioned earlier, I am planning to get a trial subscription to Apple TV, to have a good look at the first season of “Picard” and now that one can also watch these movies about the history of black discrimination and outright persecution, I’ll have even more reason to feel satisfyingly guilty when I cancel the free trial subscription just before it runs out. Anything there by Spike Lee, by any chance?
On a related topic: it is not about injustice, exactly, since it is about the adventures and misadventures of a clever and ambitious confidence man, but the 1933 adaptation to the screen of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones”, famous for the powerful acting of the great Paul Roberson in the title role of Brutus Jones, is one that I have been wanting to watch for a long time. But I imagine it is not in the list.
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Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones”, famous for the powerful acting of the great Paul Roberson in the title role of Brutus Jones
Paul Robeson perhaps?? He was stoned along with Pete Seeger in my now home town….
Not sure if it was because Pete was a commie or because Paul was black, likely both. Hopefully we are beyond that now.
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Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.Wavy, Yes ‘Robenson’; my typo. I was going to fix it but then I thought: “nah, let’s see if anybody actually finds it, more interesting this way.”
Peter Seeger and him were stoned? You mean with stones thrown at them with intent to cause bodily harm? Or is some other meaning of this word the correct one? Neither possible meaning I can think of would really surprise me. Besides, I don’t think Peter was a commie. He was to the left of many at the time (not a very hard thing to do), but I doubt he was also someone who was actively advocating the overthrowing of the government by a violent social revolution to accomplish the goals of abolishing the private ownership of the means of production and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, in the USA, no less, for a start. Or was he?
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The “TV” app is included on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. It is included with Macs running Catalina or later (so once you upgrade to Catalina, you get it). You can install it on some other platforms as well (search for “Apple TV” in your device’s app store). There is a way to access Apple TV+ using a web browser as well. See my review of Apple TV+ for details.
Nathan Parker
Thanks, Nathan. I’ve found your entry and got the link to Apple TV+ from there. Now I have it bookmarked in one of my browsers: https://tv.apple.com/
If I understood correctly, one can subscribe at this site by pushing the “Subscribe” button to start the process. And this is also the site where one can then go and watch shows and movies, right?
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If I understood correctly, one can subscribe at this site by pushing the “Subscribe” button to start the process. And this is also the site where one can then go and watch shows and movies, right?
Right.
I watch Fraggle Rock once a week to rest my brain from all my weekly work
Have you tried watching Apple’s new Central Park ?
Insight from Europe:
When we watch these demonstrations in US, we think about few crucial facts:
How is that possible, that policeman kills a guy when arresting him? If happened here, the policeman would never leave prison anymore, its just disgusting!
Second thought, how is it correct, that people start to rob markets? How this corelate to “killing a black guy by policeman”? How this give people (also white people) right to steal from others? This is opportunistic and I feel shame.
Not just only #black lives Matter, but #ALL LIVES MATTER !
Sharing for free films with racial injustices is just pouring more gasoline to fire, if you wanna know my opinion. Oh Apple, this is huge misstep.
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I do not like the collateral damage that some protests, in some cities, have unintentionally brought along with them. But I also understand that it happened mostly because, initially, the protests were largely spontaneous and no one in them was prepared to effectively keep things under control. Particularly when the police was shooting tear gas canisters, pepper spry and plastic bullets at them. You know: not the ideal conditions for joining hands and singing “Kumbaya” with the police. Or for keeping the criminal element from burning, ransaking and looting, because the police was otherwise occupied.
I think Apple is doing the right thing. We need to be reminded in the USA of what has been kept out of polite conversation for too long, as part of a tense but outwardly more or less friendly situation. Those who do not see it this way are free not to watch. (And those who may want to argue about this are also free to start a new thread dedicated to doing it in the “Rants” forum.)
One thing that really worries me is that, with so many people out in the streets bunched together and with many of them not wearing face masks, we are likely to see a spiking of COVID-19, another unfortunate unintended consequence of people spontaneously exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and to freely voice their opinions in this troubled and troubling times.
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I mostly agree with you, yet I need to add that, at least in my area of Illinois, the local protests were during the day, peaceful and respectful enough. After several hours they went home. Then at night, the rioters, thieves, and (as Obama called them years ago) “thugs” showed up to burn and steal from the stores. Two very different groups of people with two very different agendas. The latter group not only causing harm to the communities, but also to the message of the former group.
On Central Park, I haven’t watched it yet. Been enjoying Fraggle Rock too much. Wembly is so deep with his music: <span class=”s1″>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX2cY6dHUu4</span>. I do want to watch Defending Jacob. I loved the work Michele Dockery did in Downton Abbey. Can’t wait to see her performance in Defending Jacob.
Without delving off-topic (since that’s what Rants are for) I agree on All Lives Matter and on the observations on the collateral damage. Good points from both of you. The good news is here the majority of protests have been peaceful, and our city has been spared the brunt of damage. I am concerned with possible COVID19 spikes as well. That’s all I’ll say on the matter at the moment since anything else I would direct to Rants.
Nathan Parker
For DriftyDonN: Occasionally I get logged out of AW. When I do, if I attempt to post, it says “Guest”. That might have happened to you. I always check now to ensure I’m signed in before posting.
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The quickest way for me to say if I am looged in or not is that I dont see statistics under the user account
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One can see if is logged in or not by looking at one’s icon and one’s name at the top of the brown side bar to the right of the page. If, instead, one see a login form, it means one is not logged in. Has that changed for some people? I am still seeing things as usual in this respect.
By the way, this conversation, interesting and useful as it might be, is not exactly on topic. But it may deserve its own thread, though, if the problem now under discussion is a widespread one.
Meanwhile, demonstrations continue apparently unabated; some are being attacked by truck drivers trying to plow into them and even, in a few cases, by armed men. George Floyd’s funeral has been a major event today, with a tremendous sendoff by a multitude showing up to pay their respects at the church were he was placed before being taken to the cemetery: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/george-floyd-funeral-service/
This, if even necessary to point it out, are no normal days in the USA and the usual criteria for “normal” are put in abeyance by extraordinary events.
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Racial injustices :
HBO MAX removed ‘Gone With The Wind’ from its streaming service.
“The removal (also) comes after John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times this week asking HBO Max to take the film out of its rotation.
“It is a film that glorifies the antebellum south. It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color,” Ridley wrote. “The movie had the very best talents in Hollywood at that time working together to sentimentalize a history that never was.”..
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max/index.html
Hattie McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Gone With the Wind. She was the first African American to win an Oscar. I thought she should have won Best Actress over Vivian Leigh. Other than being glad to see an amazing talent like Hattie McDaniel win an Oscar, the movie wasn’t on my let’s see it again list.
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I don’t remember if I’ve ever seen the original Gone with the Wind movie. I did see the Carol Burnett parody. When she came down in the curtain gown, I couldn’t stop laughing.
Nathan Parker
I saw it many, many years ago. It was something of a cult movie with a strong following, particularly among ladies of a certain age. Based on a best-seller published in the nineteen thirties, of the same name. Had its moments: the chaos and the palpable despair preceding the flaming fall of Atlanta to the Union troops was a brilliant piece of dramatic cinematography and technically impressive. I found the iconic Scarlett O’Hara annoying and did not really much care for most of this very long movie. But, as already pointed out, it had its moments. I am more of a “Django Unchained” person myself (especially the bloody revenge part at the end, culminating on the explosion that obliterates the mansion of the cunning and monstrously cruel slave owner and proprietary of the Candyland plantation, played by Leonardo DiCaprio ). But then again, I am a big fan of Quentin Tarantino.
Now we are going through an iconoclastic phase in the protest movement: pulling down statues, changing street names, removing old movies from some streaming Web sites, that sort of thing. What I am looking for are signs that an organized movement is emerging intent on pushing a definite program of reforms. Otherwise things are bound to peter out without anything real being gained in the end, much as it happened with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement of years ago.
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I don’t remember if I’ve ever seen the original Gone with the Wind movie. I did see the Carol Burnett parody. When she came down in the curtain gown, I couldn’t stop laughing.
I have the movie in my movie collection. I watch the movie from time to time.
Otherwise things are bound to peter out without anything real being gained in the end, much as it happened with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement of years ago.
But the ‘Me Too movement’ did succeed.
Good point, Alex 5723: “But the ‘Me Too movement’ did succeed.”
However it has been mostly successes, not ‘success’, with certain individual offenders being targeted and brought low, while in a fundamental sense is still “work in progress” and not quite there yet. Besides, there are significant differences between “Me Too” and the present push for racial equality.
“Me too” is about very specific issues that afflict or potentially could afflict half of humanity and the world over, regardless of color, politics, religion or social position. Not a minority, in one country, as are the current protests over racist attitudes against black people, which success could only benefit indirectly everyone else (making their everyday life more agreeable, the least of it). Also, ending the criminal mistreatment of women is a very specific issue easily reduced to a one or two-point program that can be boiled down to: (a) Don’t be so nasty and (b) apply the law! It is already not legal to beat up or rape people, or even fondle strangers, particularly those that object in no uncertain terms, or demand that things that matter (pay rises, promotions, even a decent start in a career…) be traded for unwelcomed sexual favors (extortion). The problem is the reluctance of victims to complain and bring charges, because of what can happen to those who do and, after that, to prove the offense, often without witnesses, but even so, beyond reasonable doubt. So laws need to be sharpened and procedures improved to encourage people to come forward and bring those charges and the courts should look very carefully at how they apply them, which precedents they set. While society’s subtly and not so subtly misogynistic attitudes must be changed, that being the hardest thing to achieve, but the essential one from which everything else follows. So: not a success, yet, but work in progress.
Staying with feminism and reform movements with worthy goals not getting very far (at least in the USA), the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the USA Constitution, with very broad and pervasive implications for the fair treatment of women and, indirectly, for the equal treatment of all people under the law, has not been approved, because it is still awaiting ratification by enough states, since 1970! And the main reason why?: equal pay for equal work, helping with childcare, cost real money to businesses! The ERA approval, and not just in the USA, because it has implications in many other countries by way of example, is the most important unresolved progressive issue for modern-day feminism, in my opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment
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