How ‘The Goldfinch’ Seeks Authenticity | Anatomy of a Scene
This scene from “The Goldfinch” starts with a pair of chairs that look mighty similar. But only one is an antique with a long, rich history. The other merely replicates that history. In a film where the primary characters are trying to parse truth from fiction, authentic from impostor, the chairs are an apt metaphor.
Oakes Fegley plays the young Theo Decker, struggling to make sense of what’s real after surviving a bombing that killed his mother. He finds solace at an antique shop run by Hobie (Jeffrey Wright) and, in this scene, gets a lesson in authenticity.
Narrating the sequence, the director John Crowley explains how Wright met with art experts trained in spotting replicas and how that encounter helped him bring a tactile approach to his performance. Here he teaches Theo what to look for, and feel for, to recognize a reproduction.
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September 13, 2019
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The Third 2019 Democratic Debate: Key Moments | NYT News
The candidates went hard after President Trump, while former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. fought off rivals’ attacks in a spirited debate about health care, guns, foreign policy and immigration.
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September 13, 2019
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Why Blaming Video Games for Violence is Wrong | NYT Opinion
Gamer and YouTuber Charlie Goldberg says it's time to stop bashing video games and instead celebrate millions of American gamers who participate in a national industry that is valued at an estimated $36.9 billion. In the video Op-Ed above, he debunks the claims of politicians who blame video games for mass shootings. He argues that leaders who point the finger at games, like President Trump and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas, are just distracting their constituents from reality.
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September 12, 2019
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Who Are Trump’s Republican Challengers?
Former Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said he would run against President Trump in 2020. Joe Walsh and Bill Weld are also long-shot Republican candidates. We look at their political résumés and their strategies for winning the nomination.
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September 09, 2019
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Watch How ‘It Chapter Two’ Revisits a Drain of Terror | Anatomy of a Scene
We’re not finished with that storm drain just yet. There’s more sadness (and horror) to be found inside of it in this scene from “It Chapter Two,” the second installment of the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s chilling novel.
Here, the character Bill Denbrough (played as an adult by James McAvoy) has found his old bike in the town of Derry, Me., and takes it for a spin. This trip down memory lane leads him on a journey through darker memories, back to the day his younger brother, Georgie, was fatally wounded at a storm drain.
In his narration, the director Andy Muschietti discusses the scene’s meaning, and how he opted for a visual effects assist to capture one particularly dreadful moment.
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September 06, 2019
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How Bon Iver Wrote ‘iMi’: 5 Years, 28 People and a Piece of Cardboard | Diary of a Song
In our latest episode of “Diary of a Song,” Justin Vernon, the Grammy-winning Kanye West collaborator, recounts the emotional toll of his yearslong effort to write the song “iMi.”
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September 05, 2019
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Meet the Hong Kong Families Caught Between the Police and the Protests | The Dispatch
What happens when families find themselves divided across police barricades? As protests continue in Hong Kong, and distrust between the public and the police grows, the tension continues at home.
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September 03, 2019
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The Truth Has a Voice: Gender Equality
Tracing women’s fight for equal pay and treatment in sports through the lens of our journalism.
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September 05, 2019
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How ‘The Farewell’ Makes Exercise Fun and Bittersweet | Anatomy of a Scene
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This sound echoing through a neighborhood in the Chinese city of Changchun isn’t that of laughter, but of a disciplined workout routine. It’s coming from Billi (Nora Lum, a.k.a. Awkwafina) and her grandmother, or Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen).
In “The Farewell,” Billi has returned to the city to visit her ailing Nai Nai, who has been diagnosed with cancer. But the grandmother hasn’t been told this diagnosis and thinks that Billi, along with the rest of her family, is visiting for a wedding.
The shooting style often aims to mirror that narrative through unbroken, stationary shots. Its writer and director, Lulu Wang, explained how in an interview.
“We use the static frame a lot throughout the film as a way to represent the performative nature of what’s going on,” she said, “that the family is performing joy, that they’re performing this wedding for Nai Nai’s sake and there’s a theatricality to it.”
Here, Wang discusses how she worked with her actors and gave them the freedom to move around the frame and even out of it to build a naturalistic sequence that solidifies the chemistry between them.
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August 30, 2019
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Trump Is Building Tent Courts Along The Border. Here's What They Look Like. | Visual Investigations
Tent courthouses are the administration’s latest move in its “Remain in Mexico” policy, forcing asylum seekers to wait in one of Mexico’s most dangerous states until their hearings. We track the tents’ expansion through satellite imagery — and explain how they could make the asylum process even harder.
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August 29, 2019
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Inside the Kashmir That India Doesn’t Want the World to See | The Dispatch
Indian authorities say life is returning to normal in Kashmir. But thousands of people have been detained, and the military still patrols the streets, firing pellet guns and tear gas to quell protests.
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August 23, 2019
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How Brittany Starts Running in ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | Anatomy of a Scene
“I’m broke. I’m fat. My liver’s shutting down or something.”
That line in “Brittany Runs a Marathon” is tearfully delivered by Jillian Bell, playing the dejected title character after a failed exercise attempt. It’s a moment of honesty from a woman who often deflects serious situations with comic quips. Here, Brittany feels as if it’s an uphill climb to what she sees as a better life.
The film’s writer and director, Paul Downs Colaizzo, took as his inspiration a former roommate of his who was also named Brittany. In an interview at The Times, Colaizzo said that the kitchen-floor conversation between Brittany and her neighbor Catherine (Michaela Watkins) at the center of this scene came from talks that he would have on the kitchen floor with his roommate. “I was hoping,” he said “I might be able to capture the spirit of that real-life moment in ways I couldn’t even consciously plan.”
“And if not,” he continued, “it’d be a nice nod to my real-life friend.”
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August 23, 2019
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Meet Hong Kong's Teenage Protesters | The Dispatch
Antigovernment protests have raged all summer, aided by student activists. How will they be heard after they go back to school? Here’s what they told us.
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August 22, 2019
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How China Is Framing the Hong Kong Protests | NYT News
For more than two months, anti-government protests have gripped Hong Kong, with anger rising over China’s growing influence. Here are the tactics the Chinese government is using to frame the narrative.
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August 20, 2019
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Who Is Julián Castro? | 2020 Presidential Candidate | NYT News
The former San Antonio mayor entered the presidential race in January and has had a tough time distinguishing himself from a crowded field of Democratic candidates. But Julián Castro is proving his strength is going head-to-head with his opponents.
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August 19, 2019
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China: Why They Must Free Our Parents From Concentration Camps | NYT Opinion
In the video Op-Ed above, three Chinese citizens whose parents disappeared demand their release from China’s “re-education camps.” The government is estimated to have detained over one million people. The goal: to force China’s Uighur ethnic minority to assimilate.
China’s decades-long campaign against the Uighur minority has surged in recent years through the construction of hundreds of detention camps. Even outside of detention centers, millions of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region live in a virtual prison. The surveillance state deploys sophisticated technology, including facial recognition tracking, compulsory apps that monitor mobile phones, and even DNA collection.
China has justified its actions as a fight against religious extremism within the predominantly Muslim ethnic minority. The state has also defended the camps as “boarding schools” for job retraining. Yet community leaders, including secular citizens and academics, have been targeted for detention.
The international community has widely condemned China’s actions. The United States Congress is considering legislation to do so. And, in late July, China claimed to have released most detainees — yet experts and on-the-ground reporting suggest that the detention camps persist, and are even expanding.
If you are concerned about the situation in Xinjiang, here is some action you can take.
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August 19, 2019
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Spike Lee Explains How ‘Do the Right Thing’ Has Remained Relevant | Anatomy of a Scene
This year is the 30th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s game-changing drama “Do the Right Thing,” about the rise of racial tensions during one very hot day on a block in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. In July, the Criterion Collection released a digitally restored version of the film on Blu-ray.
For the Anatomy of a Scene series, we asked Lee to pick a sequence and discuss it. He chose the one leading to the killing of Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) by police officers, and during an interview at his Brooklyn production offices, he gave an impassioned explanation for it. Here are edited excerpts from his comments:
Spike Lee: I know the column is called Anatomy of a Scene. I’m renaming this. I’m calling it Anatomy of a Murder. Some of you might not know that the chokehold of Radio Raheem, played by the late, great Bill Nunn, my Morehouse brother, was based upon the death of Michael Stewart. In September 1983, Michael Stewart, a graffiti artist, was tagging the First Avenue subway station. Eleven New York City Transit police officers jumped on him and strangled our brother to death. That’s where I got the idea for the chokehold murder of Radio Raheem.
Five years ago, after the chokehold had been outlawed by the N.Y.P.D., Eric Garner died the same way that Radio Raheem did in a movie that was based on the real-life chokehold of Michael Stewart.
And several days ago, the attorney general of the U.S., appointed by the president, Agent Orange, gave the final decision that no charges would be brought against the officers in Eric Garner’s death. When I saw that footage of Eric Garner being choked to death and saying, “I can’t breathe,” I immediately thought of Radio Raheem.
So a lot of things in this film, even though it debuted 30 years ago, are still happening today. Black and brown people are still being murdered today by police forces across the United States of America. And the people who inflict this death walk free. They don’t get fired, don’t get suspended.
So when I was asked to do this series, I immediately thought of this scene because it just happened where the murderers of Eric Garner walked. This is very, very personal to me.
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August 16, 2019
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Deepfakes: Is This Video Even Real? | NYT Opinion
In the video Op-Ed above, Claire Wardle responds to growing alarm around “deepfakes” — seemingly realistic videos generated by artificial intelligence. First seen on Reddit with pornographic videos doctored to feature the faces of female celebrities, deepfakes were made popular in 2018 by a fake public service announcement featuring former President Barack Obama. Words and faces can now be almost seamlessly superimposed. The result: We can no longer trust our eyes.
In June, the House Intelligence Committee convened a hearing on the threat deepfakes pose to national security. And platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are contemplating whether, and how, to address this new disinformation format. It’s a conversation gaining urgency in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
Yet deepfakes are no more scary than their predecessors, “shallowfakes,” which use far more accessible editing tools to slow down, speed up, omit or otherwise manipulate context. The real danger of fakes — deep or shallow — is that their very existence creates a world in which almost everything can be dismissed as false.
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August 14, 2019
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Inside India's Crackdown on Kashmir | The Dispatch
A week after India stripped Kashmir of its autonomy and imposed a communications blackout, we spent Eid in Srinagar, where security forces are stopping people from moving and speaking freely.
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August 14, 2019
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How Hong Kong’s Protesters Evade Police and Keep the Demonstrations Alive | Visual Investigations
Hong Kong’s protesters have employed innovative tactics to stay safe and evade the police. Our visual investigation gives an up-close look at those strategies.
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August 12, 2019
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Migrant families caught crossing into the U.S. illegally can already be held for 20 days. Now the Trump administration wants to be able to detain them indefinitely. A new regulation unveiled on Wednesday would replace the Flores settlement, a court agreement that has been in place for decades that limits how long the U.S. government can hold migrant children in custody and specifies the level of care they must receive. Other administrations have challenged those rules, but President Trump has repeatedly criticized them as part of the country’s “catch and release” policy toward families from Central America and elsewhere. Officials said the new rule would send a powerful message that bringing children to the U.S. was not “a passport” to being released from detention. But the change still requires approval from a federal judge before it can go into effect, and it’s expected to be immediately challenged in court. Visit the link in our bio to read this developing story. @ilanapl shot this photo of a Honduran family being loaded into a van by Border Patrol agents in May.
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Roya Rahmani, the first woman to be Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, remembers all too well what her country was like under the Taliban’s rule in the 1990s. Women were beaten for leaving their homes and barred from attending school or holding jobs. “People were drained of hope,” she said. Today, women make up 28% of the Afghan National Assembly — more than in the U.S. Congress. But as the U.S. and the Taliban move toward a preliminary peace agreement, which could be released in days, there are growing concerns that the gains Afghan women have made over nearly 2 decades will be lost under future Afghan governments. Visit the link in our bio to read more. @lexey took this photo.
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What does a presidential campaign sound like? For one, candidates love to play songs about love. Swipe➡️to see what else we found when we analyzed rally playlists from 10 of the candidates running for president in the 2020 U.S. elections. In some cases, their messaging synchronized with the music: @kirstengillibrand, for example, has been clear about her focus on women’s rights in her campaign. 73% of her playlist is made up of songs by women artists. Visit the link in our bio to see our full analysis and hear the songs. Let us know which one’s your favorite to listen to in the comments below.
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400 years ago, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. No part of America has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. “Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all,” writes Nikole Hannah-Jones. To explore the legacy of slavery, The New York Times and @nytmag have started the #1619Project, a collection of essays, criticism, art and an audio series from more than 30 contributors about the lasting impact of American slavery. Each of the stories in the #1619Project takes up a modern phenomenon and reveals its history. From the lack of universal health care to mass incarceration, from the brutality of capitalism to the epidemic of sugar, The 1619 Project explores how America’s years of slavery still shape the country today. Click on the link in our bio or check out our Instagram story to see more. @dannielle_bowman shot this photo.
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In a Syria shattered by 8 years of civil war, what does a government victory look like? At least half a million people are dead. More than 11 million have been severed from their homes. Grandparents are raising their orphaned grandchildren in abandoned buildings. And so many men are gone that it’s up to the women — many of them working for the first time — to try to rebuild. Our journalists, given rare access to the country, found ruin, grief and generosity. Tap the link in our bio to read their full report. @meridithkohut took these photos.
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“I wanted to do a bunch of different styles, but I also know that it’s really hot — you have to understand the environment, too,” @sashaoksh said of her @beachsessions_rockaway series, which focuses on open classes instead of performances this year. “It’s not so good to do it on the sand,” she said, so classes take place at the @low_tide_bar, like this one by @dance_church, a guided improvisation for dancers of all abilities, created by the choreographer @katewallich in Seattle. (Dance Church classes are also held at the Mark Morris Dance Center throughout the year.) At the Rockaways, sessions will continue through Thursday with @bellbiba. That's fitting: It was Biba’s performance last summer — everyone joined in at the end — that inspired Sasha to go in a participatory direction. “It was such a beautiful ecstatic moment of this big group dancing on the beach,” Sasha said. “The community here has been asking for dance classes. After every season, they’re like, ‘We want to dance, too.’ It got me excited.” Leading this class is @tmitri, who focuses on taking care of everyone in the space. “But once I’m in it, I totally get lost,” he told the #nytimes dance critic @giadk. “And it feels good to get lost.” @classiclydia made this video for #SpeakingInDance, our weekly series exploring the world of #dance.
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Here is video evidence that this one-pot pasta with ricotta and lemon is just as easy as it is creamy and delicious — and it comes together in about the same amount of time it takes to boil noodles and heat a jar of store-bought marinara. The no-cook sauce is a 50-50 mix of ricotta and Parmesan, with the zest and juice of a lemon. That's it — unless you want to add peas, asparagus or spinach to make it more filling. Visit the link in our bio to get @itsalislagle's full recipe from @nytcooking and remember to hit save. @scottloitsch and @vaughn made this video.
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These are the relatives of opioid victims testifying in federal court about the devastating effects of abuse and addiction. Even as thousands of people died, evidence that might have slowed the course of an American tragedy was kept hidden. One document, known as a “prosecution memo,” details how government lawyers believed that Purdue Pharma, the maker of the powerful opioid OxyContin, knew early on that the drug was fueling a rise in abuse and addiction. They also gathered evidence indicating that the company’s executives misled the public and Congress. Find out more on this week’s episode of @theweekly. If you’re not caught up yet, there are now 10 episodes ready for you to binge-watch on @hulu or @fxnetworks.
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In @nytopinion, the Editorial Board writes: “As he announced that he was firing the police officer who had put Eric Garner in the chokehold that led to his death, New York City’s police commissioner, James O’Neill, sent the country’s largest police force a message: You may not think I’m on your side, but I am.”
“It was a powerful message from one of the most prominent law enforcement officials in the country: Police officers who violate the public trust must be held accountable, for the good of the public and the police force.”
“But Mr. O’Neill said that Mr. Garner’s death ‘must have a consequence.’ It must. And, after too many years, it finally has.” Visit the link in our bio to read more. @damonwinter took this photo of Eric Garner's gravestone, which refers to Mr. Garner as “Beloved son, brother, husband, father & grandfather.”
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One minute, it was a wedding — nearly a thousand guests packed under one roof. The next minute, a suicide bomber walked in, leaving at least 63 people dead and nearly 200 wounded. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast. Violent loss in Afghanistan is often a daily reality, but weddings — a celebration of union — had largely remained the exception, occasions when people could dance without guilt, laugh without hesitation. For the bride and groom, who survived, and hundreds of their relatives, that respite was snatched. On Sunday, the couple's new bedroom sat unused and mourners gathered for funerals. The attack came at a time when American negotiators are finalizing a deal with Taliban insurgents to extricate U.S. forces from the country after 18 years. Although the Taliban wage the majority of insurgent violence, the Islamic State — no ally of the Taliban’s — has also established a small but stubborn foothold in Afghanistan and has claimed responsibility for many deadly explosions. Visit the link in our bio to read more. @jimhuylebroek took these photos.
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Phoenix is getting hotter, and the city's schedules of work and play are shifting later into cooler hours. Neighborhoods come to life at dawn and dusk, when residents hike, jog and paddleboard. Many take to the city’s 200 miles of rocky trails after dark to avoid heatstroke. And across the city, certain construction work starts in the middle of the night — not only for the safety of workers, but also because even some building materials can be affected by intense heat. (Concrete, for example, can get too hot or dry too quickly and later crack.) Even night is not the respite from heat it once was: It can still be 100 degrees long after sunset. But for some residents seeking to escape blistering temperatures, the evening is the new start of the day. That will be true for more cities as the world gets hotter. Visit the link in our bio to read more. @george_etheredge took these photos.
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Where in the world is @nytimestravel? #🔍 Comment your guess below. @kasia_strek shot these photos for a story we’re publishing this week. Where do you think she was when she captured these scenes? (Swipe left and wait to reveal the answer)
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