Archive for June, 2008

Armond White Movie Review of Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues” film (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

 

39) Armond White Movie Review of Spike Lee’s  Mo’ Better Blues film  -1990-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spike Lee is limited by the Black masculinity syndrome; traditional…

 

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Armond White Music Review of Ice Cube’s “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted” album (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

38 - Armond White Music Review of Ice Cube’s AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted album  -1990-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ice Cube’s ten cuts use broad strokes and apoplexy to portray the wild conditions of African-American

 

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Armond White Music and Music Video Review of Madonna song “Vogue” (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

 

  37)  Armond White Music and Music Video Review of Madonna‘s “Vogue” song/music video  -1990-

 

“In last year’s Like a Prayer video, Madonna led the pop world into political consciousness, but this

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Armond White Movie Review of Film “Last Exit To Brooklyn” (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

36)  Armond White Movie Review of film Last Exit To Brooklyn -1990-

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In Last Exit To Brooklyn, the hellishness of urban ignorance and poverty is fully acknowledged, but

 

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Armond White Movie Review of Tony Brown film “The White Girl” (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years Of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

35)  Armond White Movie Review of Tony Brown’s The White Girl  film -1990-

 

Tony Brown’s original “Black Journal” TV series  pioneered a series African-American perspective on contemporary news events.  In the

 

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Armond White Movie Review of film Driving Miss Daisy (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

34)   Armond White Movie Review of the film Driving Miss Daisy -1990-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce Beresford’s genteel, picturesque direction turns Alfred Uhry’s theaterpiece into a

 

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Armond White Movie Review of the film The Fabulous Baker Boys (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

33) Armond White Movie Review of the  The Fabulous Baker Boys film  -1989-

 

 

 

 

“Even before The Fabulous Baker Boys, Michelle Pfeiffer had been the object of film reviewers

 

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Armond White Movie Review of Idrissa Ouedraogo film “Yaaba” (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 26, 2008

 

32) Armond White Movie Review of African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo’s film Yaaba  -1989-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yaaba is a good sign that the conscientiousness of African filmmakers can pay off with pure artistry. 

Idrissa Ouedraogo’s

 

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Armond White Music Review of De La Soul’s “3 Feet High And Rising” Album (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 25, 2008

31)  Armond White Music Review of De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising album  -1989-

 

 

 

 

 

 

De La Soul’s debut album 3 Feet High and Rising is an epic about the young-adult African-American

 

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Armond White Movie Review of Terence Davies ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ film (QUOTE from the Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”)

June 25, 2008

 

30)  Armond White Movie Review of the Terence Davies Distant Voices, Still Lives film       -1989-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terence Davies -- Director of "Distant Voices, Still Lives".

Terence Davies -- Director of "Distant Voices, Still Lives".

 

 

 

Distant Voices, Still Lives recalls Terence Davies own family history in Liverpool in the forties and fifties in a mosiac of vignettes and

 

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