Now edging past middle-age, Chicano, raised in southeast L.A., a professional educator, I’ve been engaged in an affair with movies that has lasted a lifetime—and realized I’m always riding shotgun myself when it comes to truly sharing a common film past.
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Tom Cendejas is a playwright and longtime peace educator. He writes about film/tv at The Couch Tamale on Medium, “unwrapping pop culture with a Latino eye, one husk at a time.” When he was ten years old, his Mexican-American parents taught him how to register people to vote.
Licorice Pizza offered me more of the joys of cinema than anything has in years, but I regret its perpetuation of an erasure ironically similar to that practiced in the era Anderson satirizes.
Heidi Ewing's I Carry You With Me posits a simple but devastating question: shouldn’t people who manage to find a calm love in this world be able to shelter in it together?