Film: Why Precious Should Be Taught Math
Why can't kids in movies ever do the math? Early in the movie Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, Precious tells the audience how much she likes math class. But watching the film, I wondered why her teacher kept... [read full story]
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‘Precious’ Finds a Place at the Box Office
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Oprah: 'I've seen Precious on street corners as I drive by in my limo'
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AWFJ Women On Film - “Precious” - Susan Granger reviews
Ever since this grim, gritty, urban drama won kudos at the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, it’s been generating industry hype and Oscar buzz, building on its...
A talent that's Precious
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‘Precious’ is great American cinema, at Cine-World festival
As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who’s left to make great...
Cast of 'Precious' blends newcomers, stars
Susan Wloszczyna • November 8, 2009 TORONTO — Lee Daniels is the anti-Pygmalion. Daniels, who produced “Ball,” also assumes the mantle of director with “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” one of the year's most...
?Precious? restores some much needed horror to abuse of all kinds, lending weight to self-esteem...
The Madeafication of African-American storytelling from Tyler Perry and his imitators has been a depressing downward spiral, reducing important social topics to countrified nonsense, often chased with a heavy wallop of...
Teach Precious math
Raped repeatedly by her father, abused by her horrible mother and kicked out of school for her second pregnancy, Precious (also obese, black and illiterate) finds redemption when an alternative-school teacher (lesbian) teaches...
Why Precious Should Have Been Taught Math Instead of Journaling
clipped by: Spiritualmonkey clipper's remarks: Anyone who has taught adult-literacy classes knows that inexperienced writers' efforts are more often clichéd, vague, and confusing than searingly original and profound. And that's...
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