Oppenheimer heralds a troubling return

 JEFFREY ST. CLAIR 

 

 

+ Interviewer: This movie obviously tries to correct history. What do you think of this moment in time when the truth is under attack and forces seek to ban books from schools?

+ Lily Gladstone: “Like ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, which is banned in Oklahoma. I would quote Addie Roanhorse, who worked in the art department on the film. Addie said, ‘You can ban the book, but you can’t Scorsese.’” (Variety)

+ Tim Shorrock on Oppenheimer: “Oppenheimer” and its director’s failure to include a single Japanese or Korean face is a most disgraceful act in a film that instead glorifies the political travails of the bomb’s inventor. Poor, poor Oppy!”

+ It was entirely predictable that the Academy would shower Bradley Cooper’s ego-fest, Maestro, with nominations. But the film is in many ways an insult to its subject, Leonard Bernstein. For example, the only black person in the film is a student Bernstein tries to hit on, instead of the black radicals he raised money for and free jazz musicians, such as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, he championed….