list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Made in America on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Made_in_America/359929/default.aspx Title: Made in America
Year: 2009
Director: Stacy Peralta
Plot: In one small stretch of land in south Los Angeles, there is enough history, tragedy, and hope to inform a nation. This area is known as South Central LA, once a hotbed of African American culture but now known to many as simply a war zone. Applying his distinct storytelling style to explore the history of this neighborhood, filmmaker Stacy Peralta interviews many who have lived there, who have survived, and who try to hold this community together. In this film rich with historical footage, subjects recount their innovation of forming their own "clubs" after being denied participation in the Boy Scouts of America. From the Watts riots to community-inspired activism and the Black Power movement that exploded in the late 1960s, the evolution of this neighborhood is complicated and not easily explained. This is especially true since, after the Black Power movement was systemically squelched by the federal government, a new element arose in the face of oppression: the Crips. In this broad, historic examination of South Central, the film traces the roots of African American transplants who fled a racist South only to find its more subdued form just as powerful in Southern California. Peralta relays stories that have gone unnoticed for far too long, stories that are distinctly made in America. ~Sundance
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]]>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:32:03 GMTMade in America2009Stacy PeraltaIn one small stretch of land in south Los Angeles, there is enough history, tragedy, and hope to inform a nation. This area is known as South Central LA, once a hotbed of African American culture but now known to many as simply a war zone. Applying his distinct storytelling style to explore the history of this neighborhood, filmmaker Stacy Peralta interviews many who have lived there, who have survived, and who try to hold this community together. In this film rich with historical footage, subjects recount their innovation of forming their own "clubs" after being denied participation in the Boy Scouts of America. From the Watts riots to community-inspired activism and the Black Power movement that exploded in the late 1960s, the evolution of this neighborhood is complicated and not easily explained. This is especially true since, after the Black Power movement was systemically squelched by the federal government, a new element arose in the face of oppression: the Crips. In this broad, historic examination of South Central, the film traces the roots of African American transplants who fled a racist South only to find its more subdued form just as powerful in Southern California. Peralta relays stories that have gone unnoticed for far too long, stories that are distinctly made in America. ~Sundance32http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359929.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Made_in_America/359929/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/6/4/30515.aspx Post By: Karina
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Body: Erin at Steady Diet of Film alerts us to the news (which we might have figured out for ourselves, except that we have a bad habit of being in bars at 11pm on weeknights––we swear, we’re working on cutting back on that) that Medicine for Melancholy star Wyatt Cenac is now a correspondent for The Daily Show. His first segment, in which he attempts to understand primary season through the rubrick of plot developments on Lost, is embedded above. We’ll give you a preview: “A polar bear on a tropical island? There are so many reasons why that’s AMAZING!” Stacy Peralta’s was reproached for his lackadaisical sense of style by the gang member subjects of his doc Made in America. He tells Vulture: “These guys don’t step out the house unless they’re dressed really well. In fact, a couple of our subjects took me to task for how I looked. I’d be wearing a pair of Levis and a T-shirt, and they’d ask me, ‘Do you dress like that every day? You oughta think about how you dress more often.’” The MPAA be damned, Ridley Scott might make an uncensored film based on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and the very prospect has filmdrunk oversharing. Concludes a post headlined “BONER ALERT”: “Like all really violent things, it makes me slightly sexually excited.  That’s healthy, right?” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:01:02 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog6/4/2008 6:01:02 PM Erin at Steady Diet of Film alerts us to the news (which we might have figured out for ourselves, except that we have a bad habit of being in bars at 11pm on weeknights––we swear, we’re working on cutting back on that) that Medicine for Melancholy star Wyatt Cenac is now a correspondent for The Daily Show. His first segment, in which he attempts to understand primary season through the rubrick of plot developments on Lost, is embedded above. We’ll give you a preview: “A polar bear on a tropical island? There are so many reasons why that’s AMAZING!” Stacy Peralta’s was reproached for his lackadaisical sense of style by the gang member subjects of his doc Made in America. He tells Vulture: “These guys don’t step out the house unless they’re dressed really well. In fact, a couple of our subjects took me to task for how I looked. I’d be wearing a pair of Levis and a T-shirt, and they’d ask me, ‘Do you dress like that every day? You oughta think about how you dress more often.’” The MPAA be damned, Ridley Scott might make an uncensored film based on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and the very prospect has filmdrunk oversharing. Concludes a post headlined “BONER ALERT”: “Like all really violent things, it makes me slightly sexually excited.  That’s healthy, right?” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/4/30514.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Erin at Steady Diet of Film alerts us to the news (which we might have figured out for ourselves, except that we have a bad habit of being in bars at 11pm on weeknights––we swear, we’re working on cutting back on that) that Medicine for Melancholy star Wyatt Cenac is now a correspondent for The Daily Show. His first segment, in which he attempts to understand primary season through the rubrick of plot developments on Lost, is embedded above. We’ll give you a preview: “A polar bear on a tropical island? There are so many reasons why that’s AMAZING!” Stacy Peralta’s was reproached for his lackadaisical sense of style by the gang member subjects of his doc Made in America. He tells Vulture: “These guys don’t step out the house unless they’re dressed really well. In fact, a couple of our subjects took me to task for how I looked. I’d be wearing a pair of Levis and a T-shirt, and they’d ask me, ‘Do you dress like that every day? You oughta think about how you dress more often.’” The MPAA be damned, Ridley Scott might make an uncensored film based on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and the very prospect has filmdrunk oversharing. Concludes a post headlined “BONER ALERT”: “Like all really violent things, it makes me slightly sexually excited.  That’s healthy, right?” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:53 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com6/4/2008 6:00:53 PM Erin at Steady Diet of Film alerts us to the news (which we might have figured out for ourselves, except that we have a bad habit of being in bars at 11pm on weeknights––we swear, we’re working on cutting back on that) that Medicine for Melancholy star Wyatt Cenac is now a correspondent for The Daily Show. His first segment, in which he attempts to understand primary season through the rubrick of plot developments on Lost, is embedded above. We’ll give you a preview: “A polar bear on a tropical island? There are so many reasons why that’s AMAZING!” Stacy Peralta’s was reproached for his lackadaisical sense of style by the gang member subjects of his doc Made in America. He tells Vulture: “These guys don’t step out the house unless they’re dressed really well. In fact, a couple of our subjects took me to task for how I looked. I’d be wearing a pair of Levis and a T-shirt, and they’d ask me, ‘Do you dress like that every day? You oughta think about how you dress more often.’” The MPAA be damned, Ridley Scott might make an uncensored film based on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and the very prospect has filmdrunk oversharing. Concludes a post headlined “BONER ALERT”: “Like all really violent things, it makes me slightly sexually excited.  That’s healthy, right?” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/violence/MemberTagFilms.aspxviolence
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