From Rodney King to George Floyd: Inside 30 Years of America's Police Violence | NYT
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer seen on video kneeling on George Floyd’s neck last May, is at the center of a national reckoning with race and policing. But this is nothing new. In recent decades, several high-profile cases with videos showing officer-involved deaths of Black men and women set off cycles of protests and consciousness. Ultimately, they have left families of the victims unsatisfied, and still searching for justice. To better understand this, we watched the trial with three families who have been at the center of previous national upheavals to see this moment in history through their eyes.
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April 19, 2021
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Living With the Daunte Wright Protests at the Front Door | NYT News
For the past several nights, Ebonie McMillan and her children watched in real time as protests over the death of Daunte Wright turned violent. Here’s what they saw.
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April 19, 2021
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How Anthony Hopkins Inhabits ‘The Father’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A corridor. A cupboard. A caregiver.
These may seem like innocuous elements in the domestic drama “The Father,” but when they change from one scene to another, they throw both the film’s lead character, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins), and the viewer, off balance.
That sense of confusion is at the heart of Florian Zeller’s film (nominated for six Academy Awards including best picture), which tells the story of a man suffering from dementia by plunging the audience into his experience.
In this breakfast sequence, Olivia Colman plays Anthony’s daughter and she is talking to him about the imminent arrival of a caregiver whom he’d met in a previous scene and who was then played by Imogen Poots. But when that woman arrives, a different actress, Olivia Williams, is playing her.
“What I tried to do in ‘The Father’ is to put the audience in a unique position,” the director Florian Zeller said, “as if they were, in a way, in the main character’s head. And as a viewer, we have to question everything we are seeing.”
He said he wanted the movie, which was based on his play, to be “not only a story, but an experience, the experience of what it could mean to lose everything, including your own bearings as a viewer.”
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April 16, 2021
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‘What About Us, Who Are Both Black and Blue?’ | NYT Opinion
This week, a veteran officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., killed an unarmed man, claiming to have mistaken her gun for her Taser. The Ethical Society of Police, a St. Louis group consisting mostly of Black officers, was quick to comment on the shooting, calling out the negligence of the officer.
What is it like for some officers who see themselves in both Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter after such high-profile shootings? In the video Op-Ed above, Lt. Cheryl E. Orange, a longtime member of the Ethical Society of Police, explains how her organization places morality and ethics over blind loyalty, even as most traditional police unions continue to defend their officers, no matter what. Sometimes this means publicly condemning its own members, however painful that is.
The Ethical Society of Police was formed in 1972 to address race-based discrimination within the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and is open to all officers. It is unafraid to speak out about high-profile cases of police misconduct in St. Louis and in other cities. Lieutenant Orange argues that when police unions stand behind their officers, seemingly regardless of their conduct, it erodes public trust in law enforcement, creating an “us versus them” dynamic. As she says in the video, “The union should lean to what’s right, not what’s loyal.”
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April 14, 2021
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My Son's Yeshiva Is Breaking the Law | NYT Opinion
What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s not a common question for boys attending ultra-Orthodox yeshivas in New York. That’s because many of these schools focus on Judaic studies, preparing students for a life of religious scholarship — at the expense of basic reading, writing, math and science. New York State law mandates that private and religious schools provide a curriculum equivalent to that of public schools, and a 2019 report by New York City’s Department of Education found that only two of the 28 yeshivas it investigated met these requirements. This is especially problematic, considering that the city’s yeshivas receive over $100 million in state funds annually.
Authorities have failed to enforce the laws, allowing the community, which is a strong and unified voting bloc, to disregard secular education requirements. In the video above, a mother pleads with city and state officials to enforce the law so her son can receive one of the most basic rights: education.
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April 12, 2021
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Watch an Underwater Brawl in ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Godzilla enters the scene with a splash in this high-energy moment from the latest in the MonsterVerse franchise.
Kong is being transported from Skull Island by ship and has an ocean encounter with a very agitated Godzilla. Some of the action in the sequence borrows from “Jaws” and “Die Hard” alike, and the director Adam Wingard said he wanted to lean into the spectacle.
“This is why you do these movies,” he says, narrating the sequence. “When you get to these moments, it’s all worth it because it’s basically like playing with C.G.I. toys.”
But it’s not all just visual-effects theatrics. The action moves back and forth between what’s happening with the humans on the ship and what’s unfolding in the water with the creatures. Wingard wanted to parallel specific movements to provide a sense of grounding. So he cut from a shot of Godzilla swimming to one of the characters, Nathan (Alexander Skarsgard), doing the same, or a close-up of Kong roaring to one of Nathan yelling.
“It’s like you’re dealing with characters that are 6 foot and below, and 300 feet and above,” he said, “so how do you link them up? You try to find these little visual cues that subconsciously tie the two worlds in together.”
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April 02, 2021
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Inside the Battle Over George Floyd Square | NYT News
The trial over George Floyd’s death is under way in Minneapolis. What to do with his memorial site has become a controversy of its own.
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March 29, 2021
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Watch a Family Build a New Life in America in ‘Minari’ | Anatomy of a Scene
America as a land of promise, a land of hardship or a land of fun? All three perspectives are seen in this opening sequence from “Minari,” Lee Isaac Chung’s drama about a Korean family that moves to Arkansas to build a fresh life in the United States. It is nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
This sequence observes the Yi family (played by Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Noel Kate Cho and Alan Kim) arriving at their new home, a trailer in the middle of a field. Yeun’s character, Jacob, is proud and optimistic, while Han’s Monica is skeptical.
In an interview, Chung said that the scene was in his mind when he first began writing the screenplay and that the story would grow from there, a kind of hopeful emptiness that would be filled in.
“That’s why it starts off at a house where it’s not really furnished,” he said. “There’s not even any stairs there.”
Then Chung explored the different family members’ perspectives through shots and dialogue, or the lack thereof. Jacob is the first character we see getting out of a vehicle. “I filmed that wanting to evoke the feeling of man getting off of his horse,” Chung said. Then in directing Han, he told her that her performance would often be one of reactions rather than words. “Everything she has to convey has to be through her looks, her expressions, her gestures,” he said. And with the kids, he told them to just “go out and have fun.” He tried to capture their performances in a documentary style to give the movie a more free-form and less staged feeling.
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March 25, 2021
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'Essential' Farmworkers Risk Infection and Deportation. Here's Why. | Coronavirus News
In California, undocumented farmworkers have been labeled essential by the government and prioritized for vaccines. But public health officials face several challenges in reaching an unprotected population.
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March 25, 2021
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How a Mysterious Ship Helps North Korea Evade Oil Sanctions | Visual Investigations
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We spent months reviewing ship-tracking data, corporate records and satellite imagery to uncover one way North Korea evades strict international sanctions.
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March 22, 2021
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How Police Tried — and Failed — To Stop Capitol Attackers | Visual Investigations
The Times obtained District of Columbia police radio communications and synchronized them with footage from the scene to show in real time how officers tried and failed to stop the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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March 21, 2021
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Will Beyoncé Win at the Grammys? Diary of a Song Discusses
Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and more will face off Sunday at the Grammys for record of the year. In this special Diary of a Song episode, The New York Times’ pop music team breaks down the awards show’s premier category.
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March 08, 2021
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Watch Eddie Murphy’s Return to Queens in ‘Coming 2 America’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The best approach for directing a roomful of comedy giants? Let them laugh with each other long before saying “Action.”
That’s the route the filmmaker Craig Brewer took for “Coming 2 America,” the sequel to the beloved 1988 hit starring Eddie Murphy.
Murphy reprises his role as Akeem, then a prince, now the king of Zamunda, who realizes he fathered a child from a one-night stand on his previous visit to the States.
This scene, narrated by Brewer, includes comedic work in various styles from Arsenio Hall as Akeem’s friend and right-hand man, Semmi; Jermaine Fowler as his newfound son, Lavelle; Leslie Jones as Lavelle’s mother; and Tracy Morgan as Lavelle’s uncle. It’s a lot of humor to wrangle.
“When I was younger, I used to think that being a director meant that you constantly have to go in and assert yourself,” Brewer said. “But I’ve found, especially with comedic artists, is what they really want is a safe room. They want to feel like they’re free to try things.”
Brewer said one of the best things he could do as a director, when he has Murphy, Hall, Jones and Morgan on set, is to not roll the camera immediately, but give them time and space to connect.
“You’ve got to let these four people tell old jokes about people they knew on the comedy circuit,” he said. Or riffs that would sometimes include Murphy and Morgan re-enacting full scenes and dialogue from movies they love.
“I would allow a good 10 to 15 minutes of just these guys coming into the room and laughing and joking and saying all this stuff. But then it was like, OK, now it’s time to get to work. And Eddie would nail it in two takes.”
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March 05, 2021
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How Olivia Rodrigo Wrote ‘Drivers License,’ the Biggest Song of the Year So Far | Diary of a Song
In the latest Diary of a Song, the singer-songwriter and actress Olivia Rodrigo, 18, explains how she wrote her first-ever single — after a good cry, with TikTok in mind — before it took over the world.
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February 25, 2021
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Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse's Eyes | NYT Opinion
The short film above allows you to experience the brutality of the pandemic from the perspective of nurses inside a Covid-19 intensive care unit.
Opinion Video producer Alexander Stockton spent several days reporting at the Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix. Two I.C.U. nurses wore cameras to show what it’s like to care for the sickest Covid patients a year into the pandemic.
So many Americans have died in hospitals without family by their side, but they were not alone. Nurses brush patients’ teeth, change their catheters and hold their hands in their final moments.
In just a year, we’ve lost half a million Americans to Covid-19. Vaccinations may be offering some relief, but inside I.C.U.s, nurses continue to contend with the trauma and grief of America’s carousel of death.
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February 25, 2021
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The Truth Is Essential: Life Right Now | The New York Times
New York Times journalism can help us understand the world around us, from our biggest challenges to our quirkiest questions.
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February 19, 2021
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Watch Frances McDormand Explore Nature in ‘Nomadland’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The landscapes of Badlands National Park become a place to get both lost and found in this scene from “Nomadland.”
Frances McDormand plays Fern, a woman who sets out for a life on the road when her economic situation becomes dire during the recession. She gets work in the Badlands of South Dakota and explores the park in this sequence that features a number of nonprofessional actors, along with the veteran performer David Strathairn.
Narrating the scene, the director Chloé Zhao discusses her work to make these moments in the park feel improvised, even though they were written and carefully staged. Fern does have time to wander though, and Zhao says that the ways McDormand moves and explores in the scene remind her of Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin. We see a little brightness in her discoveries, but the enjoyment is still bittersweet.
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February 19, 2021
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What Menopause Feels Like | Op-Docs
About half of the world's population will experience menopause, yet it's a period that can be isolating for a woman in their personal and professional life. Menopause marks the end of menstruation, and the changes that come with it are often not discussed openly. In Bronwen Parker-Rhodes's Op-Doc above, women across England share their intimate, complicated and illuminating experiences with menopause. It's a conversation that should happen more often, and without fear.
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February 16, 2021
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Watch Lakeith Stanfield Being Interrogated in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A handful of questions asked during an interrogation in “Judas and the Black Messiah” are key to propelling the plot of this tense historical drama.
Set in the late 1960s, the movie follows William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), a young man who becomes an informant, feeding the F.B.I. intelligence about the Chicago Black Panther Party and one of its leaders, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya.) This early scene comes after O’Neal is caught using a fake F.B.I. badge to steal a car.
Narrating the sequence, King says the moment is about “the danger of being apolitical.” O’Neal is asked his feelings about the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and admits to being upset. But when asked about the killing of Malcolm X, he has more of an indifferent response. “We really wanted to hit home the old phrase, if you stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything,” King narrates.
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February 12, 2021
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Evictions Are On Hold, But What Happens When Rent Is Eventually Due? | NYT Opinion
Since this video was first released by The New York Times, the federal eviction moratorium has been extended to March 31. Despite the extension, past rent will still be due once the moratorium ends.
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Across the country, coronavirus cases are soaring. Everyone knows by now the best way to stay safe is to stay home. But on March 31, if nothing changes, 30 million Americans are facing eviction.
In the video above, you’ll meet two hard-working single mothers living in Atlanta, Ga who suddenly lost income because of the virus. While the eviction moratorium kept a roof over their heads, it didn’t stop the back rent and late fees from accumulating — and with no relief in sight, they can’t possibly pay off all the money they owe no matter how many hours they work.
Since the pandemic upended the lives of tens of millions of Americans, congressional aid has been far too little, far too late. Now that Democrats have taken control of the Senate, can we finally enact a long-term solution?
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February 08, 2021
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