[ad_1] Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis in Origin. Photo: ARRAY Filmworks Ava DuVernay’s Origin is both essay film and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice. The director has taken Isabel Wilkerson’s influential nonfiction best-seller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — a sweeping analysis of discrimination that finds the connections among American racism,… Continue reading Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its Audience at Venice
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‘Origin’ Trailer Teases Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal
[ad_1] Ava DuVernay’s latest socially conscious film could rightfully put Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor back in the Oscar race. Origin, based on the nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitizer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, is a fictionalized drama based on the author’s experience of writing the New York Times bestseller. Ellis-Taylor plays Wilkerson as… Continue reading ‘Origin’ Trailer Teases Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal
The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin
[ad_1] On Jan. 11, 2020, in Shanghai, just 11 days after first reports of the outbreak in Wuhan circulated globally, a team of scientists led by Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University released a draft genome sequence of the novel virus through a website called Virological.org. The genome was provided by Edward C. Holmes, a British… Continue reading The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin