David Hudson

Jamelle Bouie hits the nail on the head

I’ve been all over the country in the last month. And I get asked the same question, over and over again: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:

Vice President Harris to MAGA hecklers: “Oh you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street” 🔥🔥🔥

@misterminsoo @CriterionDaily Sorry, I don't know why the links in that paragraph disappeared, but they're back in there now ... thanks!

Robert Bresson @SightSoundmag, John Ford @theMummyMa, Shu Lea Cheang @toneglow, Brian De Palma @vulture, Robert Towne @criticsatlarge, RaMell Ross @Metrograph … Did You See This? criterion.com/current/posts/…

@jessicakiang Hurray!!

Why yes, it is I, Charlie Big Bananas. Berlin Film Festival Unveils New Selection Committee Under Tricia Tuttle’s Leadership variety.com/2024/film/glob…

Trump aide: sir, people are calling your ticket a weird freakshow. how do we signal to voters you're a normal guy with regular friends?

VP Kamala Harris in Wilmington: "I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type."

You won’t see it here at Apartheid HQ, but over where the skies are blue, a certain pontiff’s headgear nails it:

“When.”

Right to the top of the list of “Most-Anticipated Films of 2025”

@BilgeEbiri Amen.

:: Carol Kane Oscar prayer circle ::

@NicolasRapold Here’s a bit from the book on the film section, and I hope to find more when I get my hands on a copy (soon!) theringer.com/movies/2024/2/…

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word.

The whole world is watching as Netanyahu and his right-wing government starve the children of Gaza and wage war against the Palestinian people. The U.S. must not continue its complicity in this horrific war.

Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed. Here is his response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him titled Navalny, which you can stream on DocPlay. RIP. #Navalny #AlexeiNavalny

And it was freaking cold, too, but by God, we were out there!

“Children with… open fractures, partial amputations, open chest wounds, horrendous lacerations… and burns. And that was every day.” Dr Deborah Harrington recently spent 2 weeks in a Gaza hospital. “I feel ashamed and shocked that we’re doing this to fellow humans,” she told me.