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Dec 24, 2014 · Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a retelling of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic 1965 Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery, opens in limited release this Christmas.(The movie will get a wide ...
Jan 3, 2015 · Real life: King did have mistresses, and he was, in fact, engaging in an extramarital affair in the weeks surrounding the Selma marches. He later confessed to his wife, and presumably, considering ...
- Jeff Labrecque
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A handful of TV films and miniseries have featured depictions of King, but his life and work have seldom, if ever, received the delicate, human nuance that director Ava DuVernay and Oyelowo offer. It’s with this care that Selma offers a valuable and all-too-rare history lesson in how social movements both work and win.
Mar 5, 2015 · If you watch the film Selma as a way of commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march for voting rights in Selma, Ala., you may be interested to know where historians and Hollywood differ:
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- Brian Truitt
Dec 29, 2014 · At a time when protest is once again a spark for reform, it’s worth seeing it in the light of “Selma,” which offers crucial lessons in democracy. First, protest isn’t an exception to ...
Dec 2, 2021 · Real life doesn't move in the same way that cinema does. Real life is a series of seemingly mundane activities happening in an unorganized, disconnected manner. Movie plots, on the other hand, must always move forward, eliminating awkward moments of silence and introspection and keeping the audience in a perpetual state of entertainment.
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Jan 27, 2015 · The irony of the film’s characterization of Lyndon Johnson waffling or even being an obstacle on civil rights is that in real life, Johnson in many ways followed this protocol for being an ally ...
