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The 58th New York Film Festival, Now on the Big Screen
With quarantine restrictions now lifted, the festival’s virtual slate from last year is now getting play in theaters.
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The Summer's Hottest Nonfiction Comes Together at AFI Docs
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50 Years of Films About Japan's Downtrodden
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Sundance Institute Awards Grants to 18 Documentary Film Projects
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One of the Oldest Queer Film Festivals Returns for Pride
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Werner Herzog's Vampires, Mirages, and War Recreations
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Excavating Rare and Suppressed Footage of the Soviet Era
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When the Black Panthers and Young Lords Teamed Up to Fight Addiction with Acupuncture
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Wong Kar-wai's Classic Films, Newly Restored
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An Online Film Festival Commemorates the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Liberation75 is streaming movies about World War II and the Holocaust, including The Great Dictator and Schindler's List, for free.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Gets the Netflix Treatment
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The Unexpected Cinematic Journeys of Ulrike Ottinger
Ottinger explores milieus often ignored in mainstream cinema.