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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 1st, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com28 February 2021How Can We Reform Victims of Trumpism, QAnon, and the New Ku Klux Klan?In a Hialeah, Florida grocery store, a Hispanic man asked a white woman standing behind him, in both Spanish and English, to move six feet from him as they stood waiting to check…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 23rd, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com19 February 2021Filmmaker Sabrina Doyle’s “Lorelei” aims for hardscrabble, working-class romance. Good onscreen chemistry between Jena Malone and Pablo Schreiber lifts the filmmaker’s debut feature out of traps set by occasionally mundane dialogue and predictable complications. Tonal and stylistic swings trade off between grim realism and dreamy expressionism.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 23rd, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com21 February 2021Have We Eliminated ‘The Giants Of Racism, Extreme Materialism, And Militarism’?In 1915 President Woodrow Wilson saw the first American motion picture ever shown in the White House, “The Birth of a Nation,” based on the book “The Clansman,” by Thomas Dixon. Jr.It was a three-hour movie,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 16th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com18 February 2021Filmmaker and activist Iara Lee’s “Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse” ventures into the sites and surroundings of the abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, introducing an assortment of “stalkers” drawn to the growing popularity of this upside-down variant on eco-tourism. Lee incorporates excellent, pre-disaster archival footage that…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comFebruary 18, 2021 Maybe the Prophet Down on Interstate 94 Was WrongAs a student of American literature, I have read some of Sinclair Lewis’s many books: Main Street, Babbit, Arrowsmith,Elmer Gantry, and It Can’t Happen Here come to mind. Born in Sauk Centre in 1885, Lewis was evidently…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlson gregcarlson1@gmail.com 2/5/21 Rodney Ascher’s previous two nonfiction features, “Room 237” and “The Nightmare,” played out like the cinematic equivalent of staying up late with friends to swap scary stories, conspiracy theories, and the kind of half-remembered word-of-mouth urban legends that have only grown more potent in the internet…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlson gregcarlson1@gmail.com 1/26/21Maite Alberdi’s “The Mole Agent” is currently enjoying some award season love, with late January recognition from the National Board of Review in the Foreign Language Film group and steady buzz as a possible feature documentary Oscar contender and/or inclusion in the International Feature category as…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlson gregcarlson1@gmail.com 1/14/21Tucker Lucas works in media production for H2M in Fargo, North Dakota and is an ensemble member of Theatre B.Greg Carlson: What is your collecting philosophy?Tucker Lucas: I’ve been thinking a lot about this the past several months, as my collecting in general has spiked up…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 11th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWhen the Free Market Gets Very Expensive for the Little GuyAbout 15 years ago we spent two winters in Sun City, Arizona when the right-wing Republican legislature was playing a child’s game of “King of the Hill,” passing all kinds of junk aberrant bills about abortion, sex, gender,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Last Word | February 10th, 2021
…By Faye Seidler fayeseidler@gmail.com Community Uplift Program Project Coordinator (701) 732-0228https://www.facebook.com/communityupliftprogram …