Trevante Rhodes — Actor (9)
Great Performers: L.A. Noir (2016) [Movie] Douban
Great Performers: L.A. Noir
director: 吉娜·普林斯-拜斯伍德 / 艾米·坎安·曼 actor: 唐·钱德尔 / 娜塔莉·波特曼
other title: 出色的表演者:L.A.Noir / 纽约时报年度短片2016
An unusual video project accompanies this year’s Great Performers photo portfolio. These nine black-and-white films, written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (with two by Ami Canaan Mann), let the viewer inhabit a scene opposite some of Hollywood’s greatest actors, all in a series of classic film-noir scenarios. The action takes place in a dimly lit bar — an enveloping, 360-degree set, with all wiring and lights cleverly built into the scene. And in each short drama, the V.R. camera plays the role of a major character: The stars were instructed to play their scenes with the camera, speaking to it, singing to it, walking around it in circles, firing a gun at it.
The result is strange and thrilling, a new sort of moviegoing experience that puts you right inside the frame. This was each actor’s first time performing in V.R., and it took some getting used to. But there was one advantage over traditional filmmaking. Unlike a typical film set, which is full of crew members and equipment and other distractions, the V.R. set, once the scene began, became a closed, immersive fantasy: just a bar, a few actors and the single camera rig standing in for one last character — which is to say, you.
–JAKE SILVERSTEIN
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
6.4 (17 ratings) director: 李·丹尼尔斯 actor: 安德拉 / 崔凡特·罗兹
other title: 美国诉比莉·哈乐黛 / 美国与比莉·哈乐黛
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."