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Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing

Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing

14 Episodes

Anchoring both high-profile blockbusters like the CREED and THOR franchises and acclaimed, adventurous indies like SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and PASSING, actor and producer Tessa Thompson has emerged as one of the most intriguing and versatile performers of her generation. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Thompson sits down with Criterion curatorial director Ashley Clark to discuss acting legends like Angela Bassett and Al Pacino, as well as the films that have had a lasting impact on her understanding of the art. Encompassing the ravishing bossa nova beauty of Marcel Camus’s BLACK ORPHEUS, the wildly unrestrained sensuality of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s BETTY BLUE, and the jagged surrealist comedy of Janicza Bravo’s LEMON, her selections offer a menu of bold, transportive, and immersive moviegoing experiences.

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Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing

14 Episodes

  • Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing Teaser
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    Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing Teaser
    Episode 1

    Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Tessa Thompson in Conversation
    18:37
    Tessa Thompson in Conversation
    Episode 2

    Tessa Thompson in Conversation

    Episode 2

  • Tessa Thompson on BLACK ORPHEUS
    02:53
    Tessa Thompson on BLACK ORPHEUS
    Episode 3

    Tessa Thompson on BLACK ORPHEUS

    Episode 3

  • Black Orpheus
    1:47:49
    Black Orpheus
    Episode 4

    Black Orpheus

    Episode 4

    Directed by Marcel Camus • 1959 • Brazil, France
    Starring Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira

    Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ BLACK ORPHEUS (ORFEU NEGRO) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus ...

  • Tessa Thompson on CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7
    03:31
    Tessa Thompson on CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7
    Episode 5

    Tessa Thompson on CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7

    Episode 5

  • Cléo from 5 to 7
    1:30:52
    Cléo from 5 to 7
    Episode 6

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Episode 6

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France
    Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of ...

  • Tessa Thompson on BLACK GIRL
    03:13
    Tessa Thompson on BLACK GIRL
    Episode 7

    Tessa Thompson on BLACK GIRL

    Episode 7

  • Black Girl
    59:42
    Black Girl
    Episode 8

    Black Girl

    Episode 8

    Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1966 • Senegal
    Starring M’Bissine Thérèse Diop

    Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in ...

  • Tessa Thompson on TOUKI BOUKI
    03:27
    Tessa Thompson on TOUKI BOUKI
    Episode 9

    Tessa Thompson on TOUKI BOUKI

    Episode 9

  • Touki bouki
    1:30:40
    Touki bouki
    Episode 10

    Touki bouki

    Episode 10

    Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty • 1973 • Senegal
    Starring Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall

    With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave-influenced fantasy-drama, tw...

  • Tessa Thompson on TAMPOPO
    03:04
    Tessa Thompson on TAMPOPO
    Episode 11

    Tessa Thompson on TAMPOPO

    Episode 11

  • Tampopo
    1:54:33
    Tampopo
    Episode 12

    Tampopo

    Episode 12

    Directed by Juzo Itami • 1985 • Japan
    Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho

    The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous "ramen western" by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an ente...

  • Tessa Thompson on BETTY BLUE
    04:11
    Tessa Thompson on BETTY BLUE
    Episode 13

    Tessa Thompson on BETTY BLUE

    Episode 13

  • Betty Blue
    3:05:15
    Betty Blue
    Episode 14

    Betty Blue

    Episode 14

    Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix • 1986 • France
    Starring Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon

    When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the tempestuous Betty (Béatrice Dalle, in a magnetic breakout performance) in a sunbaked French beach town, it’s the ...

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