Word: minstrell
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...either the film maker or his hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot of bereft kids, most of them singing, nearly all of them smiling. After a while, alas, this approach looks like exploitation - a minstrel show starring dying children...
...them smiling. Stick a camera in any child's face, and that's what he'll do: perform, to please the gawking outsider. After a while this approach looks like exploitation. It's sad to say, but one of the world's great directors has produced a minimalist minstrel show...
Several of the actors deliver memorable performances: Aranow’s court Minstrel is a strong addition to the musical, delivering his lines and his songs extremely well. Even though there are several characters and scenes that provide some comic relief, Mary Ellen Player ’04 (Studley, the Queen of Delphinia), probably has the most shocking and humorous role in the musical, embodying the “sexual frustration” of the Harvard students by coming on to almost every male character within arm’s reach...
...Road to Singapore," and one avidly awaits his consideration of Crosby's later film work: the rest of the "Road" series, the 1944 "Here Come the Waves" (with "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" sung by Crosby and Sonny Tufts in blackface, one of the latest films to use minstrel racism in a contemporary setting), the priest pictures ("Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's") and the mature work of the mid-'50s, when Bing finally grew up as an actor...
Some of the questions last night hit close to home. One student in the audience asked if Lee was making a statement about the University by making Pierre de la Croix, the creator of the minstrel show in Bamboozled, a Harvard alum...