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“Beyoncé Turns 38 Years Old - The Daily Caller” plus 1 more

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“Beyoncé Turns 38 Years Old - The Daily Caller” plus 1 more

Beyoncé Turns 38 Years Old - The Daily Caller

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 12:00 AM PDT

September 4 is Beyoncé's birthday. To help you celebrate, we put together this slideshow of some of her hottest looks.

Beyoncé is an American singer born in Houston, Texas. She began her singing career at a young age and competed in many talent competitions. Beyoncé first became big as the lead vocalist of the R&B all-female group Destiny's Child.

The group signed a record deal with Colombia Records in 1997. The release of their second album produced hit singles such as "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name."

In 2003, Beyoncé went solo and produced her first album "Dangerously In Love." In 2006, she released her second album which featured hits like "Irreplaceable" and "Deja Vu."

She's appeared in a number of films including "Goldmember," "Dreamgirls" and "The Lion King." (RELATED: Photo Of Beyoncé To Be Displayed In Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)

Beyoncé released her self-titled album in 2013. The record held hits such as "Drunk In Love" and "Flawless." A few years later, Beyoncé would release "Lemonade" on HBO. The album was originally only available to stream on Tidal, but would later be on all platforms.

Beyoncé married entertainment mogul Jay-Z in 2008. The couple shares three kids together.

Check out her photos below:

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From Solange to 'Moonlight': A 'Black Independence' film series in Memphis - The Commercial Appeal

Posted: 06 Sep 2019 12:00 AM PDT

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With a month of programming that starts with Solange Knowles (sister and sometime artistic partner of Beyoncé) and ends with Barry Jenkins (Oscar-winning director of "Moonlight"), Indie Memphis next week will launch a mini-film festival that celebrates "Black Independence." 

"It's kind of a play on words," said Indie Memphis artistic director and lead programmer Miriam Bale, who organized the series.

The "Black Independence" series will showcase work from the past 50 years by some of the world's most significant black independent filmmakers, "but independence has other meanings," Bale said.

"Obviously, our name is 'Indie Memphis,' so it's about indie film and what true independence in filmmaking means," she said. "It's also about independence from colonialism and from European and Hollywood filmmaking. Some of these films show a completely different style."

As an ideal of these multiple meanings of "independence," Bale cited the 1970 release "Soleil Ô," which is wildly original in its visual and structural choices, but also tells a story about the impact of French colonialism on the Northwest African nation of Mauritania. The movie screens Sept. 18.

Also significant to the notion of "Black Independence" is that these films offer a response to the "colonizing" vantage points of films about black people made by non-black filmmakers. As such, the series should be especially meaningful in the context of the recent controversy over the pulled Memphis magazine cover, which featured caricatures of mayoral candidates Tami Sawyer, Willie Herenton and Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. The caricature of Sawyer sparked outrage, with many calling it racist.

Bale said the "beautiful and moving" films in the Indie Memphis series might be candidates for "an alternative canon of black independent films," to balance the "traditional canon of largely European and Hollywood films." The series will treat these generally under-seen movies with the respect they deserve by presenting them on the big screen (for the first time in Memphis, in most cases); many of the films will be seen in new restorations.

" 'Losing Ground' and 'Daughters of the Dust' — both those films changed my life," Bale enthused. "Losing Ground" is "like '8 1/2' for black women," she added, citing a famous Fellini movie from 1963.

Running through early October, the series represents a bridge to the Indie Memphis Film Festival, set for Oct. 30-Nov. 4, and to its Black Creators Forum; it also functions as an extension of Indie Memphis' support for emerging local filmmakers, who might benefit from exposure to truly independent films, ingeniously crafted with limited resources. To reinforce this notion, an Indie Memphis news release describes the series as "a citywide celebration of the past, present, and the future of black independent film." (The series concludes with "Moonlight" by Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning writer-director who is the judge for Indie Memphis' screenwriting grants for black filmmakers.)

Screenings will take place at multiple venues, including Rhodes College and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, institutions that are partnering with Indie Memphis in the venture.

Here's the schedule:

  • "When I Get Home": Released only last month (with screenings limited for the most part to museums and art institutions), this is the 41-minute "extended director's cut" of a film that debuted in February to accompany Solange Knowles' latest album, "When I Get Home." "When I was younger I would fear what the people called the Holy Spirit and what it would do to the men and women around me," Solange said in a statement about the extended cut. "I never wanted it to catch me, and was terrified on how it might transform me if it did! Much of this film is a surrendering to that fear." Solange directed the film, in collaboration with several other filmmakers, music video directors, and visual and performance artists. A panel discussion will follow, featuring Victoria Jones, co-founder of The CLTV (The Collective); music artist IMAKEMADBEATS; writer-rapper-artist Dindie Donelson; artist Lawrence Matthews; and "chocolate pop" star Telisu. 7 p.m. Sept. 11, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Admission: free.
  • MicroCinema: '80s and '90s Shorts by Black Women Filmmakers: A collection of what Bale calls "landmark" but little-seen films that explore ideas of imagery and representation in Hollywood, a place that historically has been hostile to black female directors. 7 p.m. Sept. 17,  Crosstown Arts, 430 N. Cleveland. Admission: free.
  • "Soleil Ô": Presented in a new restoration (funded in part by the George Lucas Family Foundation), Mauritanian director Med Hondo's milestone of emerging African cinema is a "bitterly insightful, artistically freewheeling" (per The New Yorker) depiction of a young African man's attempt to relocate in the home base of his nation's colonizers, France. Shot in 1967, the movie made its debut in 1979, at the Cannes Film Festival. 7 p.m. Sept. 18, Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Admission: $10.
  • "My Brother's Wedding": Arriving five years after his indelible masterpiece, the now relatively well-known "Killer of Sheep," writer-director-producer-cinematographer Charles Burnett's 1983 "tragicomedy" (Burnett's word) presents a vivid and intimate look at life in South Central Los Angeles as it follows its conflicted lead character during the lead-up to the title event. 7 p.m. Sept. 25, Studio on the Square. Admission: $10.
  • "Losing Ground": "Rediscovered" and restored in 2015, the second and final film from Kathleen Collins  — the 46-year-old writer-director died from cancer six years after the movie's 1982 release — presents the quasi-autobiographical and semi-comedic story of a college professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn — himself an important black filmmaker) during a fraught holiday away from New York. The cast includes Duane Jones, star of "Night of the Living Dead." 7 p.m. Oct. 2, Powerhouse. Admission: $10.
  • "Hyenas": Newly restored and reissued, this 1992 masterpiece from Senegal's Djibril Diop Mambéty is a sinister satire grounded in the post-colonial clash between traditional community values and imported Western materialism. 7 p.m. Oct. 6, Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall, Rhodes College. Admission: free.
  • "Daughters of the Dust": Alongside "Killers of Sheep," director Julie Dash's 1991 multi-generational period portrayal of the Gullah island community of South Carolina is probably the most venerated black independent American film. (It's also a major influence on Beyoncé's "visual album," "Lemonade".") 7 p.m. Oct. 9, Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Admission: $10.
  • "Moonlight": Writer-director Barry Jenkins' Oscar winner for Best Picture of 2016 returns, in an outdoor screening presented with The CLTV. 7 p.m. Oct. 10, River Garden Park, 51 Riverside Drive. Admission: free.

For more information visit indiememphis.com.

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