That might be because Amazon is financing the film – which gives Leigh far more money than he usually has while secretively filming things like Happy Go Lucky or Mr. Turner. The film is about the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, “the infamous killing of an estimated 18 protesters, and the wounding of about 700 others in St Peter’s Field in Manchester on 16 August,” which “became known as Peterloo, in a bleak reference to the battle of Waterloo four years previously.”
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The Woman Bringing A Bookstore Back To The Bronx
Noelle Santos, who’s been crowdfunding for the store-to-be: “We need a physical space like a bookstore, whether it be independent or a chain store. It serves this physiological purpose that Amazon cannot reproduce. Amazon is not a bookstore. They are an algorithm, and that’s all.”