Do the Film Thing

April 27, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the classic 1961 film The Hustler, starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie and George C. Scott. 

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April 13, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the body horror satire The Substance, written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.

Gates, Marya E. “Female Filmmakers in Focus: Coralie Fargeat on ‘The Substance.’” Roger Ebert, 2 Oct. 2024, www.rogerebert.com/interviews/female-filmmakers-in-focus-coralie-fargeat-on-the-substance. 

Written, edited and produced by Victor Omoayo

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April 6, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones-starring romantic drama Claudine, directed by John Berry. 

Booker, Teresa A. “Teaching Note Explaining Internalized Oppression Using the Film, Claudine.” Radical Teacher, no. 114, July 2019, pp. 87–89. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2019.557.  

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March 30, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores Gina Prince-Bythewood's 2000 debut feature Love & Basketball, starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps.

"Love & Basketball: For Your Heart" by Roxane Gay. Criterion Collection Essay, Sep. 23, 2021. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7534-love-basketball-for-your-heart 

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March 23, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the cynical journalistic drama Ace in the Hole, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling.

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March 16, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the exquisite romantic drama Phantom Thread, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Kreips and Lesley Manville. 

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March 9, 2025 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the Akira Kurosawa classic Ikiru, starring Takashi Shimura. 

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March 2, 2025 - In this SEASON THREE PREMIERE, Victor explores the critically acclaimed 2023 romantic drama Past Lives, written and directed by Celine Song, starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro.

Written, edited and produced by Victor Omoayo

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August 11, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores two poignant and biting satires on race and media, Robert Townsend's 1987 debut film Hollywood Shuffle and Spike Lee's 2000 feature Bamboozled.

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Barlowe, Jamie. “‘You Must Never Be a Misrepresented People’: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, Jan. 2003, p. 1. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.wheatonma.idm.oclc.org/10.3138/CRAS-s033-01-01.

Black, Ray. “Satire’s Cruelest Cut: Exorcising Blackness in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Black Scholar, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2003, p. 19. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.wheatonma.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/00064246.2003.11413200.

Blakemore, Erin. "The Fair‑Skinned Black Actress Who Refused to ‘Pass’ in 1930s Hollywood." HISTORY, 26 Jan. 2021, https://www.history.com/news/fredi-washington-black-actress-hollywood-jim-crow-era.

Clark, Ashley and Lee, Spike. "In Conversation: Spike Lee with Ashley Clark". Interview. Bamboozled, Criterion Collection, 2019.

Townsend, Robert. Audio Commentary. Hollywood Shuffle. Criterion Collection. 2023.

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July 28, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the themes of identity, motherhood and masculinity in the Oscar-winning film Moonlight (2016), directed by Barry Jenkins.

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Jenkins, Barry. Audio Commentary. Moonlight, A24, 2016.

Tracy, Maurice. “Moving through Trauma: Black Queer Vulnerability in Moonlight.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2022, pp. 43–57. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-1.0043.

Watkins-Hayes, Celeste, et al. “Eclipsed: Darkness, Light, and Motherhood in the Sexualized Drug Economy of Moonlight.” Western Journal of Black Studies, vol. 43, no. 3/4, Fall/Winter2019 2019, pp. 81–89. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=143467848&scope=site.

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