On the surface, “Night Sky” sounds like a typical sci-fi series — the elevator pitch would be “elderly couple finds a portal to another planet” — but the Amazon Prime Video series is much more than that: It’s a road trip show, a mystery thriller, a family drama, a love story and most poignantly, a meditation on aging. And co-creator Holden Miller did not approach it as a sci-fi series.
“It really started off with that relationship drama or dramedy, whatever you wanna call it — something that captures the ups and downs, the sadness and the humor and really was about a long-term love relationship between these two characters, Irene and Franklin, and what was happening to that relationship as they were aging and approaching the kind of final act of their lives and the questions that were raised by that process. What are we doing here? What is it all adding up to?...
“It really started off with that relationship drama or dramedy, whatever you wanna call it — something that captures the ups and downs, the sadness and the humor and really was about a long-term love relationship between these two characters, Irene and Franklin, and what was happening to that relationship as they were aging and approaching the kind of final act of their lives and the questions that were raised by that process. What are we doing here? What is it all adding up to?...
- 6/14/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
In the six years since first hitting Park City, Justin Simien has had a modest, successful career. His debut feature, Dear White People, swiftly got picked up and hit American theaters in the fall of 2014 to more than quintuple its budget. It was messy, sure, but it had a lot of its mind and energy to spare. In fact, it had so much that it was able to spawn an adaptation in the form of a Netflix series, and as that heads into its fourth and final season, it would appear that Simien is looking ahead while also dipping into the past.
Such brings us to Bad Hair, a horror-comedy that aims to continue his quick dialogue and world-building that blurs the line between the fictional and the all-too-real. Meet Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), a young woman making her way in the TV industry. The production design from Scott Kuzio...
Such brings us to Bad Hair, a horror-comedy that aims to continue his quick dialogue and world-building that blurs the line between the fictional and the all-too-real. Meet Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), a young woman making her way in the TV industry. The production design from Scott Kuzio...
- 1/26/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
The year is 1989 and New Jack Swing is about to push black culture from the margins to the mainstream. The question for the black employees of Culture, the music TV station at the center of writer-director Justin Simien’s delightfully macabre horror-dramedy “Bad Hair,” is what image do they — and their white executive Grant (James Van Der Beek) — want to promote? Accuses one host, “You want us to appeal to a whiter — er, wider — audience.”
Before you can say Bel Biv Devoe, our heroine Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show, finds her braided boss pushed out and replaced by sleek ex-supermodel Zora (Vanessa Williams), who scowls at Anna’s short, natural curls and orders her to get a weave. And so ambitious Anna stitches her scalp with a stranger’s long, straight hair which, to her despair, literally slays.
In “Bad Hair,...
Before you can say Bel Biv Devoe, our heroine Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show, finds her braided boss pushed out and replaced by sleek ex-supermodel Zora (Vanessa Williams), who scowls at Anna’s short, natural curls and orders her to get a weave. And so ambitious Anna stitches her scalp with a stranger’s long, straight hair which, to her despair, literally slays.
In “Bad Hair,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2015 discoveries”.
Nick Case: 1.) Recording Artists: They aren’t brand new bands, but I listed to Lord Huron and Dawes a lot, so they were discoveries to me. 2.) Restaurant: Sisters of the New South in Savannah. Most delicious soul food I’ve ever had…and I’m from Memphis. 3.) Author: Rick Bragg. I finally started reading his works after living in Alabama. Must-read is ‘All Over but the Shoutin’.
Lavallee: Christine sees Antonio Campos reteam with cinematographer Joe Anderson. Was wondering if you could describe the type of synergy/working relationship between them.
Case: I lived in a condo with Antonio & Joe for a week during prep and it was a pleasure to see them watch films together, discuss photography books, and design the look of the film. Given that they have worked together before, they have a very natural chemistry on...
Nick Case: 1.) Recording Artists: They aren’t brand new bands, but I listed to Lord Huron and Dawes a lot, so they were discoveries to me. 2.) Restaurant: Sisters of the New South in Savannah. Most delicious soul food I’ve ever had…and I’m from Memphis. 3.) Author: Rick Bragg. I finally started reading his works after living in Alabama. Must-read is ‘All Over but the Shoutin’.
Lavallee: Christine sees Antonio Campos reteam with cinematographer Joe Anderson. Was wondering if you could describe the type of synergy/working relationship between them.
Case: I lived in a condo with Antonio & Joe for a week during prep and it was a pleasure to see them watch films together, discuss photography books, and design the look of the film. Given that they have worked together before, they have a very natural chemistry on...
- 1/23/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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