Typically Tuesdays playlist for 10/05/2020

Artist Title Album Label Link
Sufjan Stevens America The Ascension
Hamb Sun On Top of the Roof SINGLE
The Golden Age of Wrestling Freckles Tombstone Piledriver
Marie Davidson, L'Œil Nu C'est que parce j'm'en fous Renegade Breakdown
DIANA Slipping Away Familiar Touch
Pierre Kwenders Sexus, Plexus, Nexus MAKANDA at the End of Space the Beginning of Time
Program Audio: 

TT Follow-up: Cuties (Mignonnes)

Against a backdrop of Jade's "Homosexual Tetris (Sufjan Listening Party/Robot Tetris Music)" playlist, Leslie shares her thoughts and feels about Maïmouna Doucouré's (2020) film Cuties after having watched it. 

*** Spoiler warning for Cuties ***

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References:

Doucoré's op-ed for the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cuties-director-maimouna-doucoure-why-i-made-the-film/2020/09/15/7e0ee406-f78b-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html

Hesse's review of the film for the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cuties-is-an-unflinching-look-at-what-it-means-to-be-a-preteen-girl-no-wonder-people-cant-handle-it/2020/09/16/42fa1bc2-f783-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html

Bradshaw's review for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/14/cuties-review-netflixs-controversial-child-exploitation-film-is-bold-flawed-and-misunderstood

Doucoré's interview for Netflix (6-minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8dsjAoazdY

Kimberly Nicole Foster's review (18-minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Odm_Eta1VcQ

  • Posted on: 7 October 2020
  • By: lw