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Ava DuVernay

March 2024

  • Ava DuVernay<br>Last season of “Queen Sugar” - Portraits of Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes (executive producer who has been with the show since day one) and actress Rutina Wesley.

    This much I know
    Ava DuVernay: ‘I’ve got real big-sister energy’

    The film maker, 51, on her early love of film, why she’s not on social media and the importance of silence
  • Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Isabel Wilkerson in Origin.

    Origin review – Ava DuVernay’s uneven biopic of journalist Isabel Wilkerson and her writing on race

    Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is magnetic as the US author of Caste in an ambitious if didactic film that struggles to encapsulate ​her life and work
  • Jon Bernthal … ‘Isabel did not adhere to the echo chambers that we are in, that drag humanity down.’

    ‘I’m a big believer in pain being an adhesive’: Jon Bernthal on ‘walking through fire’ for Ava DuVernay

    The actor’s new film Origin sees him star as the husband of Pulitzer-winner Isabel Wilkerson. He reflects on the fight for social justice and avoiding the new film seeming like a ‘woke agenda’

December 2023

  • US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-MUSEUM-GALA<br>US director Ava DuVernay attends the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, December 3, 2022. (Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ava DuVernay: ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’

    The acclaimed film-maker talks about her conversation-starting new film Origin, working outside of the studio system and why Black women are so often gaslit

September 2023

  • Australian actor Jacob Elordi, US director Sofia Coppola and US actors Cailee Spaeny and Priscilla Presley arrive at the Lido Beach to present the movie 'Priscilla' in the Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 04 September 2023

    Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen

    Emma Stone goes wild in a zany Victorian fantasy, Woody Allen gets one of the biggest laughs of the week, Carey Mulligan turns in a career-best performance – and the Golden Lion should go to Agnieszka Holland’s searing Green Border
  • ‘That’s a door open that I trust and hope the festival will keep open’ … Ava DuVernay.

    Ava DuVernay: Black film-makers are told people don’t care about our stories

    Academy Award winning director was speaking at Venice film festival, where she is the first African American woman to compete in its 91 year history
  • A scene from the film Origin

    Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

    There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary

July 2023

  • High-profile … Bradley Cooper directs and stars as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, with Carey Mulligan.

    Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

    Hollywood films vying for Golden Lion include Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, with non-competition films by Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater

October 2021

  • Mary-Louise Parker as Teresa Kaepernick and Jaden Michael as Colin Kaepernick

    TV review
    Colin in Black and White review – Kaepernick drama will take your breath away

  • ‘Playing the right way means playing the white way ‘… Colin Kaepernick in Colin in Black and White.

    Colin Kaepernick’s latest stand: the TV show that shares his fascinating truth

January 2021

  • Adarsh Gourav as Balram and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Pinky Madam in white Tiger.

    The White Tiger rides the surge in streamed south Asian stories

    The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giants

December 2020

  • Heart-tugging ... Arush Nand in Funny Boy.

    Funny Boy review – Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality

    Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to civil war

October 2020

  • Film-maker Ava DuVernay

    Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump

    Ava DuVernay among those highlighting platform’s lack of action over abusive tweets

September 2020

  • Residue, a fleeting and haunting lament for what is lost to gentrification.

    Residue review – haunting drama on the dangers of gentrification

    A visually striking and timely film from first-time writer-director Merawi Gerima sees a film-maker returning to an unrecognisable DC neighbourhood

July 2020

  • Barack Obama hugs John Lewis.

    John Lewis: Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey lead tributes to civil rights hero

    Winfrey releases footage of recent interview in which congressman says: ‘I tried to do what was right, fair and just’

June 2020

  • Colin Kaepernick

    Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay team up for Netflix series on player's early life

    Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay are teaming up on a scripted series on the former NFL quarterback’s teenage years

May 2020

  • Director Dorothy Arzner and Clara Bow on the set of The Wild Party (1929)

    Women Make Film review – an epic trip through cinema's undiscovered world

  • Early pioneer … director Dorothy Arzner, left, and Clara Bow, the star of Arzner’s 1929 film The Wild Party.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent

March 2020

  • 1<br>When They See Us, series 1, episode 1, Netflix, 2019 Caleel Harris

    Netflix criticises 'frivolous' When They See Us lawsuit from disgraced ex-lawyer

    Former Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein is suing Ava DuVernay and Netflix for painting her as a ‘racist, unethical villain’

January 2020

  • President Obama To Award 2014 National Medal Of Arts And National Humanities Medal<br>WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 10: President Barack Obama presents author Stephen King with the 2014 National Medal of Arts at The White House on September 10, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/WireImage)

    Stephen King says Oscars are 'rigged in favor of the white folks'

    Novelist clarifies controversial comments about diversity, acknowledging that while in a perfect world ‘judgments of creative excellence should be blind’, we’re not there yet
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