Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front is part of a new wave of war reporters making their own documentaries and podcasts to offer us a candid look at conflicts around the world.
Category: Film
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The “Magic Eye” of a Camera Captures Rural Life Under Quarantine
Made in the early days of the pandemic, Alice Rohrwacher’s short Four Roads watches her neighbors adjust to new domestic routines.
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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 Cinematic Gems of the Czechoslovak New Wave
These classics were produced during Czechoslovakia’s brief political thaw in the 1960s.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Gets the Netflix Treatment
The miniseries This Is a Robbery is at its best when working through the stranger details of the infamous, still-unsolved crime.
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Faya Dayi Tells Stories of Land Kinship in Drought-Ridden Ethiopia
Screening at New Directors/New Films, Jessica Beshir’s film floats in the space between documentary and poetry.
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How Canada’s Most Glamorous Adult Theater Has Survived
The Cinéma L’Amour in Montreal hearkens back to the Golden Age of Porn.
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The Unexpected Cinematic Journeys of Ulrike Ottinger
Ottinger explores milieus often ignored in mainstream cinema.
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Three Films That Remind Us Motherhood Can Be Very Political
These films question who can become a mother versus who has to become a mother.
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Liborio Affirms the Force of Mythology and Collective Faith
An immersive dive into communal myth-making, Nino Martínez Sosa’s film brings a Dominican spiritual leader to back to life.
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Deep in the Forest, Scientists Succumb to Religious Rapture
The British horror film In the Earth bloodily observes how fervent belief makes fools of us all.
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A Documentary About How We Got, How We Got to Sesame Street
Street Gang is an insightful story on the art of breaking ground.