• USELESS/USEFUL, Vol. 4: Marisa Kabas & ‘The Handbasket,’ ‘I’m Still Here,’ and ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

  • Feb 14 2025
  • Duración: 14 m
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USELESS/USEFUL, Vol. 4: Marisa Kabas & ‘The Handbasket,’ ‘I’m Still Here,’ and ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

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  • Welcome to the fourth installment of USELESS/USEFUL, in which we discuss topics of interest, broken into two categories. USELESS covers topics that have to do with pop culture, music, film, etc. – and the term “useless” is used lovingly, hearkening back to the DIY Brooklyn venue Fort Useless and the community around that. USEFUL covers topics like relief efforts, charitable campaigns, social issues, and other things that we want to encourage you to consider supporting. And we’ll also share about projects going on at Stereoactive Media. Here are our topics for this episode… ===USELESS ITEM ONE: I’m Still Here is the new film by Brazilian director Walter Salles. If you’re unsure of who Salles is or what the film is, here are a couple of things to know:Salles is a director who’s filmography stretches back nearly 4 decades and this is not the first time one of his feature films has broken through in some way to an American audience. He’s probably best known for his 1998 film, Central Station, as well as his 2004 adaptation of Che Guevera’s memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries, which starred Gael García Bernal as Guevera. Both films received international acclaim and won or were nominated for several awards – including at the Oscars.I’m Still Here has itself been nominated for three Oscars at the upcoming Academy Awards. It’s nomination for Best International Feature was not all that surprising. And after her win at the Golden Globes last month, star Fernanda Torres’ nomination for Best Actress was also not all that surprising. But the film’s nomination for Best Picture at the Oscars was pretty surprising. By the way, Torres is the daughter of Fernanda Montenegro, who herself was nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars in Salles’ Central Station 26 years ago.Honestly, I wasn’t even sure if the movie would open here in Tallahassee, but it did and I was glad to not have to wait on it hitting streaming services before I could see it. It stars Torres as a Brazilian family woman in 1970, six years into the nation’s military dictatorship. She is married to a former congressman and raising 5 kids in what appears to be a near perfect life – as we see play out in a rather extended sequence that does a great job of setting up the family dynamics and making sure we know what’s at stake.But it’s clear from the beginning that no matter how great their shared life may be, the world around them is becoming more overtly hostile and, eventually, Torres’ character (Eunice) as well as her husband and one of their eldest daughters are taken by members of the army for questioning about potential ties to left-leaning revolutionaries.I’ll refrain from explaining the plot or premise more than that, but ultimately, for those of us living through the current Trump-Musk political takeover of the United States, the film serves as an unfortunately apt reminder that just because your life may be idyllic, that doesn't mean the destructive gears of an authoritarian regime aren't just waiting to start grinding in your direction, too. And no matter how aware you may be of their general state of looming around the edges of life, once they take an interest in you, they can come on quick and change everything forever.===USELESS ITEM TWO: I first became a fan of comic book writer Tom King’s work after reading his 12-issue Mister Miracle limited series sometime during the pandemic. At this point, I’ve re-read the series at least twice and I’ve also read his run on Omega Men and a lot of his work on Batman. But what I’m recommending now is his 8-issue miniseries, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which I recently got around to reading and really enjoyed a lot. It’s a mix of sci-fi and fantasy that does a great job of really planting the character on her own two feet, separate from Superman. And the structure of it, all told in flashback by an old woman from another planet who traveled with Supergirl across the galaxy when she was young, does a great job of layering in a narrative distance that makes it all seem like the story of a legendary hero. As good as the story was, though, I have to admit the thing that put the experience of reading it over the top had nothing to do with anything on the page, but instead had to do with sharing it with my three year old daughter, who I read much of it too. It’s the first time I’ve read a comic book story to her and I had no idea if she’d enjoy it or not, but she listened, looked at the pictures, and has started pretending to be Supergirl, calling our dog Krypto, and pretending she has a flying horse named Comet. She even asked me if Supergirl has a pet bear because she wanted to name my in-laws’ dog, who we jokingly refer to as “Slow Bear” after it, so I told her that she has a bear called Argo.Also FYI, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is being adapted into a movie by the new regime heading up the DC cinematic universe.And now to our…===USEFUL ...
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