Tag: 12 Years A Slave

• 13 In ’13: A Pop Culture Omnilist

  Standard operating procedure for making year-end culture lists says to rank your ten favorite films/albums/books, but I’ve recently soured against this convention. Choosing a pre-determined number of “the best” among many great works, as all award shows do, is great entertainment but entirely arbitrary. So this time around, I decided to institute my own arbitrary…

  January 14, 2014

  Books, Film, Music

  12 Years A Slave, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Before Midnight, Chris Hadfield, Francis Spufford, Gravity, Haim, Her, House of Cards, Like Someone in Love, Lucius, Neil Gaiman, review, Rod Dreher, Short Term 12, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, This Is Martin Bonner

• 12 Years A Slave

  I was having a bad day. And then I saw 12 Years A Slave and regained some perspective. Director Steve McQueen’s adaptation of Solomon Northup’s incredible memoir was remarkable in its restraint. Though a strange thing to say about a film that has been lauded for depicting the horrors of slavery accurately and harrowingly, it’s not…

  October 18, 2013

  America, Film, History

  12 Years A Slave, review, Solomon Northup, Steve McQueen