Taylor Heine, 35, is often multitasking when she watches TV shows or movies at home. “I’ll be playing on the phone, loving on my animals, maybe cleaning, picking up,” she says. So she watches with the subtitles turned on. “That way I can kind of switch back and forth, be able to listen to it … Read more
The sequence is emblematic of a significant shift in how Asian languages are featured in American film and TV. Just a few years ago, when his Korean dark comedy “Parasite” won the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the writer and director Bong Joon Ho ribbed Americans for their aversion to “the one-inch-tall … Read more
People are reading what they watch. For generations, subtitles and closed captions were almost exclusively used by the hard of hearing or when heading to an art-house cinema to view foreign-language flicks. Almost overnight, that changed. Thanks to the expansion of streaming platforms, how people watch television has evolved as much as where they watch … Read more
This was not the standing ovation the filmmakers wanted. Jury members for the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition walked out of the premiere of “Magazine Dreams” Friday after the festival failed to provide subtitles for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences — including judge Marlee Matlin, reports Variety. Several of the judges — including Jeremy Harris, Eliza … Read more