Contributions from Madeleine Seidel | Little White Lies

Contributor Madeleine Seidel

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Review

The Inheritance

by Madeleine Seidel

This cre­ative riff on Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chi­noise explores the pow­er of Black activism and community.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Not Movies

Pretend It’s a City is a wry love letter to pre-pandemic New York

by Madeleine Seidel

Fran Lebowitz and Mar­tin Scors­ese sit down for a chat about all things NYC in this engag­ing Net­flix docuseries.
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Review

Hillbilly Elegy

by Madeleine Seidel

Despite strong per­for­mances from Amy Adams and Glenn Close, this mis­judged melo­dra­ma is an insult to those it claims to represent.

2
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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How one woman captured 30 years’ worth of broadcast news

by Madeleine Seidel

A new doc­u­men­tary chron­i­cles the life’s work of an unlike­ly mod­ern Amer­i­can folk hero, Mar­i­on Stokes.
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Not Movies

The American South is the perfect setting for Mindhunter Season 2

by Madeleine Seidel

By focus­ing on the Atlanta Child Mur­ders, Netflix’s crime dra­ma taps into the com­plex social and polit­i­cal his­to­ry of the region.
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How The Nightingale subverts the rape-revenge genre

by Madeleine Seidel

In reck­on­ing with the hor­rors of colo­nial­ism, Jen­nifer Kent’s film impli­cates the audi­ence in the graph­ic acts of sex­u­al and racial vio­lence it depicts.
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Southern film festivals in the age of the Alabama-Georgia abortion bans

by Madeleine Seidel

As film work­ers across America’s Deep South face an uncer­tain future, events like Side­walk con­tin­ue to show the way forward.