Justin Chang
speaker
1,567 appearances
50 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Early on, Manuel unleashes a playfully choreographed sequence worthy of the great French director Jacques Tati.
in which the resort workers perfectly synchronized movements, setting a table, stacking chairs, and cleaning a pool.
are brilliantly set to music.
It's a rich dose of comic fantasy that serves to underscore the situation's grim reality.
Filippignana is an impeccable piece of world building.
That genuinely challenges us to imagine a better world.
Fresh Air · ‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh · 21 Aug 2026
podcast
In twenty twenty one
I saw a quietly shattering debut feature called Test Pattern.
From the writer and director Shatara Michelle Ford.
Set mostly in the hours following a sexual assault, the movie was full of sharp, damning insights into how America's healthcare and law enforcement systems routinely fail black women.
In their second feature, Dreams and Nightmares, Ford has lightened the mood and loosened the tension.
This is a warm, sprawling, sweetly bickersome comedy drama about a group of close friends who at a turning point in their lives decide to hit the road together.
But Ford remains focused on the physical and emotional well-being of their characters.
In this case, four queer black friends in their mid-thirties.
The one we get to know best is Z.
A Los Angeles based writer, played by Danae Benton from the Gilded Age.
who's just been laid off from her job as a professor.
By unhappy coincidence, Z's Brooklyn based friend Tasha, played by Sasha Comper, was
Loses her consulting gig around the same time.
On a whim, Z flies to New York to hang with Tasha and their friend Lauren, played by Desi Bing.
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