January 02, 2017

2017 Cinematic New Year's Resolutions.

In the year 2017 I will not watch any films that are directed by a straight white male*. The reason is obvious.


I gotta walk the walk. It will be difficult but this will afford me opportunities to see a variety of films new to me. I'll make time to see films I had heard of before but never make the time to catch up with because they haven't been what's I traditionally enjoy (crime films starring dudes) 
  
Everything needs a hashtag, right? #marginalizedcinema2017 

*There will be some exceptions. 
1. There are a couple 2016 films that will not come to SF until the first week of January. Once I catch up with Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, Martin Scorsese's Silence and Mike Mill's 20th Century Women, I will watch no more films directed by straight white males unless;
2. the films are specifically about marginalized people and the cast and/or crew heavily involve them (example: Tangerine);
3. the films are socially/politically diverse films that prop up marginalized people or lampoon oppresors (example: Luis Buñuel films)