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Nadine Labaki on the set of Where Do We Go Now?
Courtesy of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival
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Where Do We Go Now? would have pushed the envelope (pardon the pun) for the Oscars, as a film made by a woman during a particularly lean year for women filmmaker, but also for its subject matter. Ultimately, Labaki’s latest is about the vital role women play in solving the problems that men create, and teaches how we could all learn to get along if we only took the time to walk a few steps in our neighbor’s shoes.
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The City Dark poster, film opens at IFC Center in NYC on Jan 18th
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Italian researchers recently announced that two-thirds of all humans now live under skies polluted by artificial lights. As a New Yorker, I know I haven’t seen more than a handful of stars on any given night and the sad thing is, I didn’t remember what I was missing until I watched The City Dark.
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King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
(via cheatsheet)
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“Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off” Murakami
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The cover of Roberto Saviano’s book Gomorrah in Italian
