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A black police officer goes undercover in the Ku Klux Klan. A film producer would probably sweep the idea of the table as unlikely – and shitstorm-ready. But the complete unlikely is so just happened in reality.
In the 1970s was Ron Stalworth hired as the first black cop in Colorado. Here infiltrated the far-right organization the Ku Klux Klan, who espouse to eradicate blacks and jews. In an almost equally improbable balancing act gets provokatøren Spike Lee you to laugh all the way through a raging historielektion in american racism, which extends to today.
The seksdobbelt Oscar-nominated ’BlacKkKlansman’ looks like a politifilm of the old school, but there is nothing predictable about the end, that strikes like a lash. Read more.
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If the filmmakers behind ’First Man’ feel cheated on the red Oscar carpet in the night, then they are within their rights. The film about Neil Armstrong’s life deserved nominations in the biggest categories like ’best film’ and not least ’best actor’ for Ryan gosling’s sensitive portrait of the first træmand on the moon. Instead, it was the ’First Man’ eaten of with four nominations in the technical categories.
Damien Chazelle has made a rumfilm, who refuses to look like the rumfilm, we know. There are no heroes-slow motion and no victory violins. There is not even an american flag, as Armstrong conquers the moon. Instead, there is a gripping story of a man who is trying to work with the loss of her daughter away. Almost coincidentally, his work is a huge step for humanity. Read more.
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Filmverdenens biggest guns are beginning to see the point in Netflix. Now got Netflix tricked Coen brothers, two of the world’s most celebrated filmmakers after mesterstykker as ’Fargo’ and ’The Big Lebowski’, to make a movie directly to streaming.
A film is, however, that much said, for ’The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ is a collection of six short films from The Wild West, ranging from light indifferent to the Coen brothers, when they are the best. Their well-known black humour becomes quite literal in the small, devilish funny stories, where we, among several quirky characters meets a bank robber, who will be hanged twice. The hard-hitting story lines leave no doubt as to why the film is nominated for three Oscars, among other things, best adapted screenplay. Read more.
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