Film
Filming California’s Oldest Freeway and the Communities It Traverses
Communion Los Angeles visits the different communities the 110 is carved through, from the mountains to the sea.
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Film
A Movie Uncovers Unpublished Letters Written to Ms. Magazine in the 1970s
Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
Art
5 Movies that Sum Up the International and Experimental Documentaries of Icarus Films
Celebrating 40 years, Icarus has been one of the champions of international documentary cinema in the US, sharing films that may have otherwise gone completely overlooked.
Books
How a Graphic Novel About 1930s Germany Feels Poignant and Prescient
Jason Lutes's epic graphic novel series Berlin, which began in 1996, comes to a close this year. Little did he know how relevant his books would be.
Film
Searching Is the Latest Movie to Be Told Entirely on a Computer Screen
In Searching, a man begins scouring his daughter's computer and social media presence after she goes missing.
Film
The Banality of Capitalism in China
There are moments of friendship and warmth in Wang Bing's documentary Bitter Money but the primary sense a viewer gets is that being on the bottom rung of capitalism in China consists mainly of boredom.
Film
The Comic Absurdity of the Atomic Threat
The documentary The Atomic Cafe dissects how American Cold War propaganda directed the country's culture into putting a cheerful, upbeat face on possible apocalypse.
Film
A Chance to Revisit Barbara Loden’s Only Feature Film, Considered a Feminist Masterpiece
While Loden initially went unnoticed, today she is seen as an unsung auteur whose promise was tragically cut short by her death from breast cancer in 1980.
Film
A New Biopic on Gauguin in Tahiti Paints a Skewed Portrait
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti maneuvers around its subject's more questionable actions by pretending they don't exist.
Art
How Our Conversations Around Mixed-Race Identity Have Evolved in the 21st Century
A project illustrates how the explosion of the internet has allowed for a more involved, varied, and purposeful construction of one's identity.
Books
French Racial Dynamics, Captured in Comics About Migrant Experiences
Yvan Alagbé continually confronts the reader with difficult glimpses of racial dynamics in modern France.
Film
Stream Mr. Freedom, the Perfect Anti-Fourth of July Movie
Mr. Freedom, written and directed by William Klein in 1969, viciously lampoons both superheroes and the United States.