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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 15th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com The Only Way to Defeat Trumpistan Is to Pass the Democratic Party’s PlatformSince 2013, when Chief Justice John Roberts declared the election of Barack Obama had proven that racial discrimination no longer existed in the United States, the Republicans have closed 1,688 polling places. Texas alone has…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | March 8th, 2021
…Tom Brandau (1960-2021)By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comWhen I first made his acquaintance, I didn’t think I liked Tom Brandau. And I was certain the feeling was mutual. Following the unexpected death of Minnesota State University Moorhead film studies professor Ted Larson—a mentor to me and to Rusty Casselton and to…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 8th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com 08 March 2021Dennis: “Why Did Jesus Turn Water Into Wine When He Could Have Changed It Into Chocolate Milk?”As I listened to our resident Mara-Loco psychopath Donald Trump address his cult at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) emphasizing his “America First” white supremacist program and ranting…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | March 1st, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com19 February 2021Photo courtesy Mari Mur.Dava Whisenant received the Best New Documentary Director Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival for her feature debut “Bathtubs Over Broadway,” which opened the 2019 Fargo Film Festival. Whisenant continues to collaborate with Steve Young, and their short comedy “Photo Op” is…
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…