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livrelibre ([personal profile] livrelibre) wrote in [community profile] dark_agenda 2010-10-17 02:36 pm (UTC)

I nominated the following:


The Book of Eli-a movie about Denzel Washington righteously kicking ass in postapocalyptic America (ETA: also has Jennifer Beals (biracial actress) as a character with a disability as well though the representation may be problematic)

Minister Faust-Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad--a fantasy book set in Edmonton with two black geeks and a kickass black woman as the main characters (one Muslim)

Ooku the Inner Chambers-a manga set in an alternate Edo Japan in which 3/4 of the men have been wiped out by a plague and the women take over

Angelica Gorodischer-Kalpa Imperial-a beautifully-written book of stories within stories set in an alternate fantasy empire by a Argentinean writer (and translated by Ursula LeGuin)

Ojos de Brujo's Silencio (song)-actually I meant the music video from this Spanish nuevo flamenco band (ETA: actually they call it ""jipjop flamenkillo" (hip-hop with a little flamenco)" according to Wikipedia, which is a kind of hallucinatory story of a little (Romany?) girl and a city and, well. . .watch it on YouTube.

Caramel (Sukkar banat)-a Lebanese film about the lives and loves (including a queer relationship) of five women in a beauty shop

There's violence, implied or otherwise, and rape, attempted or otherwise, in most of these.

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