How Botaina Halabi, a Druze artist who paints Holocaust images, is an inspiration....
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The work of the artist, the act of creation, is an act of naming and making a thing known....
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Citizen Kane is the quintessential story of a man who has it all except the one true thing....
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January 28, 2019
AFI Club: The Godfather, A Movie About Oppressors Or The Oppressed?
The Godfather questions if the Mafia is made up of oppressed immigrants or power hungry tyrants....
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January 01, 2019
AFI Club: Casablanca, A Reflection On How Crises Affect Our Humanity
Casablanca is, at its core, about the ways people try to maintain their humanity when the world is falling apart. ...
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October 29, 2018
AFI Club: Raging Bull, A Commentary On The Perils Of Hypermasculinity
Raging Bull, while ostensibly a movie about boxing, is really about the ways that men communicate emotions....
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August 22, 2018
AFI Club: Singin’ In The Rain, A Glitzy Product Of The Blacklist Era
Singin' In The Rain is is as much a product of the Hollywood Blacklist, as it is an homage to The Golden Age. ...
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Gone With The Wind's Scarlett O'Hara clings desperately to the Confederate South, even as everything around her is changing....
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