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The
African American Film Critics
Association
Selects
The Great Debaters
as Top Film of 2007
By Kam Williams
Charles Burnett Recognized With
Special Achievement Honors
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Los Angeles,
CA
(December 17, 2007) – The
African-American Film Critics
Association (AAFCA) has named
The Great Debaters as Best
Picture of 2007. Directed by
Denzel Washington, The Weinstein
Company release from Harpo
Productions captured a majority
vote by the organization
comprised of African-American
media professionals from across
the nation. Don Cheadle was
selected as Best Actor 2007 for
Talk To Me, with Marion
Cotillard earning recognition as
Best Actress 2007 for
La Vie
En Rose. |
“Mr. Cheadle’s work in 2007,
from
Reign Over Me
to
Ocean’s Thirteen,
continually challenges and
entertains us. But it was his
portrayal of Ralph 'Petey'
Greene in
Talk To Me that
cinched the honor this year,”
notes AAFCA President Gil
Robertson, IV. “And, although
our organization gives specific
consideration to work by artists
of African descent, Ms.
Cotillard’s astonishing
portrayal of Edith Piaf is a
standout performance worthy of
recognition.”
AAFCA honored Ruby Dee and
Chiwetel Ejiofor of
American
Gangster as Best Supporting
Actress and Actor of 2007.
Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons was named
Best Director 2007 for
Talk To Me. Charles Burnett is
recognized with the AAFCA
Special Achievement Honor 2007,
a year which saw the release of
his seminal classic Killer of
Sheep more than 30 years
after its making.
Films in the AAFCA Top Ten
include
Gone Baby Gone,
No Country for Old Men
and Michael Clayton. “2007
embodied a year of powerful,
personal filmmaking by
high-profile directors who
stepped up their game to create
what we believe are future
classics,” says AAFCA Vice
President, Wilson Morales,
editor of Blackfilm.com.
The African-American Film
Critics Association’s
Top Ten Films of
2007
About AAFCA
Founded in 2003, The African
American Film Critics
Association (AAFCA) honors
excellence in cinema by creating
awareness for films with
universal appeal to black
communities, while emphasizing
film about the black experience
and those produced, written,
directed and starring performers
of African descent. The
association actively reviews the
quality and standard of black
talent, content and media
coverage. AAFCA also supports
the development of future black
film critics and filmmakers. The
organization is based in Los
Angeles.
Source:
The DuVernay Agency—818.980.0770
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2007 NYFCO Movie Awards
By Kam Williams
There Will
Be Blood
Dominates NYFCO Annual Awards
The New York Film Critics Online
(NYFCO) announced its movie
awards for 2007, considered an
early indicator of Oscar
potential, at its annual
luncheon at O'Neals' Restaurant
in Manhattan on Sunday, December
9th.
There Will
Be Blood
emerged as the day’s big winner,
netting five awards overall,
including Best Picture, which it
shared with "The Divine Bell and
the Butterfly."
Daniel Day-Lewis was named Best
Actor for his role as a
voraciously greedy oil tycoon in
There Will
Be Blood while
Julie Christie received Best
Actress honors as an aging,
married woman slowly losing her
battle with Alzheimer's in "Away
From Her."
The honor for Best Director went
to Paul Thomas Anderson, also
for
There Will
Be Blood and
the organization picked Michael
Moore's Sicko, a scathing
indictment of America's health
care system, in the Best
Documentary category. The
Lives of Others and
Persepolis tied as the Best
Foreign Picture.
NYFCO is a New York-based group
whose membership is composed of
24 web-based reviewers and 3
print critics with a strong
online presence, including the
author of this article.
The
Complete List:
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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