Much of what the media deems important coverage of the attacks is in fact retraumatizing gawking or empty nationalism.
Dan Schindel
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Fortnite Turns Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Into a Sci-fi Nightmare
“March Through Time,” an interactive educational experience inside the popular online game, recreates the March on Washington, with embarrassing results.
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Fall in Love with a Puppet Baby in the Arthouse Musical Annette
The newest feature from Leos Carax, a tempestuous romance between Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, is gleefully strange and metafictional.
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Inside The Viewing Booth, an Israel Supporter Reacts to Videos of the Occupation
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s documentary studies in real time how people rationalize and interpret the media they encounter.
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Catch the Latest in International Cinema
Returning to the Museum of Moving Image, this year’s First Look 20/21 is the largest in the festival’s history.
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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
Like many film festivals, the DC-area event is going partially virtual this year, allowing people around the country to take part.
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50 Years of Films About Japan’s Downtrodden
Japan Society’s online retrospective Cinema of Struggle features eight movies from director Kazuo Hara and producer Sachiko Kobayashi.
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Sundance Institute Awards Grants to 18 Documentary Film Projects
The institute has allocated funds to projects about Black motherhood, conversion therapy, and more.
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One of the Oldest Queer Film Festivals Returns for Pride
The Frameline Film Festival is bringing back its in-person events.
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Werner Herzog’s Vampires, Mirages, and War Recreations
Check out these highlights of Metrograph’s new series “Whole Lotta Herzog,” collecting 16 of the eccentric director’s films.
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Excavating Rare and Suppressed Footage of the Soviet Era
MUBI gets Back in the USSR with a streaming series featuring archival documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa.