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There is a story in "Columbus." What is remarkable is how intense it is, given the stillness and quiet of Kogonada's style, and the focus with which he films the.

· Love and personal ties are matters of life and death in the new trailer for Kogonada’s Columbus, which stars John Cho as Jin, a curious man whose father.

S. cities that have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. And Atlanta activist Sarah Rose hoped Atlanta would be next.» RELATED: Is Atlanta a segregated community? Rose, the woman who successfully campaigned for the installment of permanent rainbow crosswalks in Midtown in June, is behind the new petition for the Atlanta City Council to cancel Columbus Day. Despite gaining more than 2. This year, Columbus Day falls on Monday, Oct. For over 8. 0 years, the U.

The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the nominal control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France. In the movie, Jin (Cho) arrives to see his ailing father, a scholar of architecture who has been hospitalized during a recent visit to Columbus, Indiana. Replicants, superheros, and reboots await you in our Fall Movie Guide. Plan your season and take note of the hotly anticipated indie, foreign, and documentary.

S. has celebrated Christopher Columbus with a federal holiday in his name. But Columbus did not ‘discover’ America: he pillaged it and brutalized and enslaved its people. It is time to stop honoring him,” Rose wrote on the Care. RELATED: What is Hispanic Heritage Month? The petition lists some of Columbus’ most brutal acts against Native Americans revealed in his own letters and in letters of men who accompanied him, including cutting off hands of Native Americans over the age of 1. Those are just a few of his many horrific acts, Rose wrote.

Cellphone rings ] Hey, dude. Dude, did you knowit's your dad. Columbus Day? Yeah. Watch Drillbit Taylor Online Ibtimes. Dude, I don't knowwhat's going on. The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus is remembered for his 1492 discovery of the 'New World,' and how his legacy of European colonization is a controversial one.

Christopher Columbus (1. Watling Island and meets the natives, while three of his shipmates erect a cross. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

As of Monday morning, 2. Atlanta supporters.» RELATED: Google honors Native American activist with doodle“Atlanta is often called the “city too busy to hate,” Rose told The Atlanta Journal- Constitution’s Nedra Rhone. This Care. 2 petition represents that sentiment and helps move the city towards honoring truly honorable people and not those unworthy of historical adoration.”Care. Congress to remove Columbus Day as a national holiday. That petition has garnered more than 1. Monday.» RELATED: Protests to escalate against Enbridge pipelines in Midwest. The opposition to Columbus Day, which was first proclaimed a national holiday in 1. Watch Moth Youtube.

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S. rejected the holiday due to its association with Catholicism. In recent decades, however, Native Americans and activist groups have objected to the celebration of something that indirectly led to the genocide of indigenous peoples.» RELATED: Tribal head who led Dakota Access pipeline fight voted out. Six U. S. states (Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Oregon, South Dakota and Vermont) don’t recognize Columbus Day at all, but Hawaii, Iowa, South Dakota and Vermont have replaced the second Monday in October with an alternative holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day. Multiple U. S. cities such as Austin, Texas; Berkeley, California and Denver, Colorado, have done the same. And in many Latin American countries, Columbus’ landing is often observed as the Dìa de la Raza (”Day of the Race”) or Dìa de la Resistencia Indìgena (“Day of Indigenous Resistance”) to honor the diversity of Hispanic culture and recognize the native peoples and their history.

Learn more about Christopher Columbus and the holiday at History.

John Cho stars in gorgeous clip. Love and personal ties are matters of life and death in the new trailer for Kogonada’s Columbus, which stars John Cho as Jin, a curious man whose father falls gravely ill, leaving him stranded in the film’s titular Indiana town where he strikes up a meaningful friendship with an architectural enthusiast, Casey (Haley Lu Richardson). The pair’s connection then probes a soul- searching (and, judging by the clip, breathtakingly gorgeous) exploration of familial duties for both parties.“There’s this belief that if you’re not there when a family member dies, your spirit will roam aimlessly and become a ghost,” Cho says in the haunting opening moments of EW’s exclusive preview of the project.

Why aren’t you at the hospital?” a woman’s voice asks. Cho replies: “He was never interested.”“You don’t want him to get better?” she continues, to which Cho responds: “Maybe not.”Front Row Filmed Entertainment. What follows is an absorbing array of intricately composed shots by cinematographer Elisha Christian, who frames the movie for the mononymous filmmaker Kogonada, making his feature debut here. Kogonada — a prolific video essayist — isn’t the director’s real name, however, but rather a tribute to Japanese auteur Yasujirō Ozu’s screenwriting collaborator, Kōgo Noda, who worked with Ozu on dozens of titles — including the 1.

Tokyo Story. Front Row Filmed Entertainment“The word ‘artist’ gets battered around a lot in this industry, and it can sometimes be derogatory; it can be code for ‘not commerce,’” Cho, star of films like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and the contemporary reboot of the Star Trek franchise, told Indie. Wire of his Columbus director earlier this year. And I want you to know that when I call him an ‘artist,’ I mean that in a very pure way. He is an artist in the sense that he’s a seeker, he’s a person asks questions, he’s a person who has ideas and feels them deeply.”Columbus, which also features Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, and Michelle Forbes in supporting roles, had its world premiere as an official selection of the 2. Sundance Film Festival in January. It later traveled to similar events in France, Boston, and Seattle, and will be released in theaters on Aug. Watch EW’s exclusive trailer for the new film above.