Watch a Harrowing Escape in ‘Run’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A teenager’s bedroom becomes an escape room in the thriller “Run,” streaming on Hulu. Kiera Allen plays Chloe, a wheelchair-user whose mother (Sarah Paulson) has locked her in. The stakes are high for her escape, and the how of it involves a different set of techniques than would be needed for a nondisabled person.
In this video, the film’s director, Aneesh Chaganty, says the sequence is something of a microcosm for what he was trying to do with the entire film: “take a normal house and turn every single element of that house into a massive, Burj Khalifa-scale obstacle.”
Chloe “MacGyvers” several objects from her room to aid her in breaking free. Chaganty discusses the meticulous storyboarding of the scene, as well as how he took cues from Hitchcock, M. Night Shyamalan and, for one nifty trick, a friend’s glassblower father.
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November 20, 2020
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How Do U.S. Voters Feel After the Election? Still Divided. | 2020 Elections
In the days after the election, Times reporters went to four swing state counties with some of the tightest vote margins to see how people were feeling. The answer? Still pretty divided.
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November 16, 2020
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Watch a Soulful Musical Performance in ‘Jingle Jangle’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The Netflix holiday extravaganza “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” provides plenty of seasonal razzle dazzle. But it includes one groovy song break that’s not like the others.
Forest Whitaker stars as Jeronicus Jangle. His glory days as a revered toymaker seemingly behind him, he’s now become a stodgy pawnbroker. But one woman, Ms. Johnston, still sees light in him, and her flirtations bubble over into a song called “Miles and Miles.”
Ms. Johnston is played by the British actress Lisa Davina Phillip, and she delivers a gospel and R&B-tinged performance that can’t help but lift spirits as she takes it to the sky.
The director, David E. Talbert, was inspired by the singing of gospel legends like Tramaine Hawkins, and guided Phillip to channel that energy. He also includes a trio of well-dressed dancers who accompany Phillip on the song, her Pips, if you will.
Narrating the sequence, Talbert discussed how he worked with his choreographer, Ashley Wallen (“The Greatest Showman”), and the songwriter Philip Lawrence to conjure up the feel of Motown groups like the Temptations, as well as the Minneapolis sound popularized by Prince.
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November 13, 2020
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The Votes Are In. Now Comes the Wait. | 2020 Elections
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November 04, 2020
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What Do U.S. Elections Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion
Turnout this election is projected to be the highest in a century, and voters are doing everything they can to make their voices count. Waiting in line for hours (even if you’re the mayor). Voting in person despite the pandemic because you fear that your mail-in ballot could be one of the 1.02 million that might be discarded. And casting a ballot despite the potential that someone with a semiautomatic rifle will be watching you at your polling place.
But, does voting have to be so … hard?
Not really. Just watch the video above and you’ll see it’s not like this in other democratic countries around the world. Voting in other democracies is a snap. And, if you’re really lucky, you might score a “democracy sausage.”
When we showed voters from around the world what American elections are like in practice, they weren’t impressed. But they were impressed with our resilience and determination. So, while the world’s “oldest democracy” may be a bit creaky these days, let’s be clear: Go vote! That’s really the best way to make a change.
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November 02, 2020
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How U.S. Police Took a Hands-Off Approach to Armed Groups in 2020 | NYT - Visual Investigations
Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Our video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.
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November 02, 2020
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Trump’s Campaign Is Building an Army of Poll Watchers. What Can They Actually Do? | 2020 Elections
President Trump and his campaign have been calling for an army of poll watchers on Election Day. What is poll watching, and when does it cross the line? We look at how a federal consent decree restricted the Republican Party for decades, and why its expiration could make a difference in 2020.
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November 02, 2020
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How America Helped Stop Covid-19. Just Not in the U.S. | NYT Opinion
We’ve all heard how U.S. leadership failed its citizens with its pandemic response. We had the playbooks, we had the money, we had the experts. We just … didn’t use them.
But it turns out, other countries did. Because U.S. public health leaders and scientists have been planning for a catastrophe just like Covid-19 for decades, and, in typical American fashion, we didn’t just write the pandemic playbook — we exported it around the world.
In this video, we went searching for evidence that the public health innovations and scientific progress this country is famous for are still alive and well. Our journey to find lifesaving American initiatives introduced us to some interesting people: from a virus hunter in the bat caves in Thailand to a group of South Korean epidemiologists who just might have predicted this pandemic.
What we found doesn’t change the fact that more than 220,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, but it sheds light on a part of the U.S. pandemic response that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention: that America’s decades of pandemic planning actually did save lives. Just not at home.
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October 29, 2020
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What Can You Do About QAnon? | NYT Opinion
A global cabal of celebrity pedophiles? Trafficked children being sold online through a furniture website? And Donald Trump about to rescue us from it all?
These QAnon conspiracy theories are so outlandish — not to mention demonstrably untrue — it feels like the natural response … is laughter and mockery.
But according to documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, that’s the opposite of what you should do. Dunking on fools may feel good, but humiliating QAnoners risks driving them further down the rabbit hole. And you should care because you might have a QAnon believer among your friends or family — and on Nov. 3, it’s possible several will be elected to Congress. Q is not going anywhere soon. So what can you do?
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October 27, 2020
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How Homegrown Disinformation Could Disrupt This U.S. Election | 2020 Elections
In 2016, Russia developed a simple, effective playbook to undermine U.S. elections with disinformation on social media. Four years later, Americans are using the same playbook on each other.
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October 26, 2020
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Watch Kelly Rowland Play an ’80s Pop Star in ‘Bad Hair’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Yes, the writer and director Justin Simien’s new horror movie, “Bad Hair,” is about a killer weave. But it makes time to bathe not only in blood, but also in nostalgia.
The movie (streaming on Hulu) is set in 1989 and follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an employee at a Black music network called Culture TV. In this scene, one of Culture’s shows is introducing an exclusive new music video for the song “I Get It,” by the pop star Sandra. That musician is played by Kelly Rowland, who performs vocals for the song (written by Simien). While Anna and her co-workers watch the video on a monitor on set, they are struck by Sandra’s latest look, a new flowing weave that bounces with each beat.
The scene cuts between the action in the Culture studio and the music video itself, a throwback to Janet Jackson-style pop aesthetics and a tribute to the new jack swing music style.
In his narration, Simien discusses what it took to recreate the look of an ’80s music video and how he ensured the camerawork matched the buoyant choreography.
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October 23, 2020
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Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women | NYT Opinion
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October 20, 2020
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This U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet. Here’s Why. | 2020 Elections
With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
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October 19, 2020
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Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Get Serious in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Aaron Sorkin knows his way around courtroom drama theatrics. His script (adapted from his Broadway play) for the 1992 Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson verbal slugfest “A Few Good Men,” did not shy away from gavel-banging razzmatazz. He returns to court with the docudrama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (streaming on Netflix), which he wrote and directed.
The trial of the title involves several antiwar activists (played by several Oscar and Emmy winners) who were accused of conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
The trial itself was a carnival of sometimes funny, sometimes shocking moments, which Sorkin depicts. But this scene, featuring the testimony of the usually more jokey agitator Abbie Hoffman (played by the usually more jokey Sacha Baron Cohen), turns down the volume and gives the court more of the order its judge (Frank Langella) has been seeking throughout the film.
It’s the film’s final trial scene, but it’s handled differently than usual. Narrating this video, Sorkin explains why he went in a quieter, more straightforward direction, and why all eyes were on Cohen in interpreting its tone in his performance.
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October 16, 2020
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How a U.S. Task Force Killed a Wanted Antifa Activist
President Trump praised the killing of Michael Reinoehl, suspected of fatally shooting a far-right protester, as “retribution.” Our investigation found that officers may have shot without warning or seeing a gun.
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October 13, 2020
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What's the Problem With Vote-by-Mail? | 2020 Elections
The second episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on vote-by-mail, which has become one of the most contentious issues of the 2020 election. In Michigan, a state decided by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016, a group of bipartisan election officials worry they won’t have the time or resources to ensure results on election night.
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October 12, 2020
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How Julie Taymor Brings Visual Flair to ‘The Glorias’ | Anatomy of a Scene
When an interviewer poses a sexist question to Gloria Steinem in the biopic about her life, a giant red tornado sweeps him away.
Or at least it does in Steinem’s thoughts. That sequence is one of a few moments of fanciful abandon in “The Glorias,” Julie Taymor’s drama that casts four actresses to play the feminist activist.
The scene begins during a television interview, with Alicia Vikander playing Gloria. But when the interviewer (Michael Lowry) says to her, “I hope you’ll forgive our masculine notion that you are an absolutely stunning sex object,” the casting of Gloria changes in the middle of the interview to Julianne Moore, then leads into the fantasy sequence of her response.
“I allow the whimsy of her imagination to say what she would say, could she say it,” Taymor said in an interview.
In this video, Taymor further explains the scene and how she put it together, from creative costuming (by Sandy Powell) to a sweeping score (by Elliot Goldenthal). And she discusses filming her performers on wires over green screen that would combine with visual effects into a sequence that pays tribute to both “The Wizard of Oz” and “Macbeth.”
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October 02, 2020
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How America Bungled the Plague | NYT Opinion
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong?
How is it that America, which wrote the global playbook for pandemic response, accounts for just 4 percent of the world’s population yet more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths?
One of the most important functions of journalism is to provide accountability, so in the video above, Johnny Harris dives deep into an exploration of what went wrong and when, and who’s to blame and why.
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September 29, 2020
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Why Voting in This U.S. Election Will Not Be Equal | 2020 Elections
The first episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on voter suppression in Georgia, where a growing Black and Latino population is on the precipice of exercising its political voice, if they get the chance to vote.
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September 28, 2020
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I'm Not Alone. I Have My Cats. | Op-Docs
In Lasse Linder's "All Cats are Gray in the Dark," we enter the world of an older man living by himself in a small city in Austria. Only he’s not alone — he has his two Scottish Fold cats, Marmelade and Katyusha. The cats accompany him everywhere: to the bar, to the grocery store, to the ski slopes. As we watch their relationship unfold, the trio builds a world that’s exclusively and intimately theirs alone — a reminder that families are whatever we make them out to be. All that defines them is love.
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September 16, 2020
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