Weekend Whats

What to Watch: “Anora, a young woman from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.” That official description doesn’t nearly do justice to how wild, unexpected, and excellent this movie is. Check out Anora.

+ What to Doc: We can all use a positive LA story right now, and the new doc about Norman’s Rare Guitars provides just that. An amazing story of a great store and a really good dude.

+ What to Book: I’m a little late to the party when it comes to Claudia Dey’s excellent book about a protagonist’s relationship with her father, her family, her art, and ultimately herself. It’s called Daughter and it’s great.

+ What to Consider: “What if generative AI could help us understand people with opposing views better just by showing how they use common words and phrases differently? That’s the deceptively simple-sounding idea behind a new experiment.” This a really cool, needed more than ever (beta) project from my friends at MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication. The excellent Andrew Heyward explains the project here. And you can try out the Bridging Dictionary here.