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A Dark Comedy Finds Society’s Problems Reflected in the Art World
Swedish director Ruben Östlund's satire The Square follows the misadventures of the chief curator of a fictional contemporary art museum.
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The Sanitation Worker Who Finds Stories in What the Deceased Leave Behind
The short film A Garbage Story follows Nick DiMola as he cleans the debris from the homes of the deceased and departed in New York.
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Water as a Cinematic Metaphor for the Tides of Time
In Kambui Olujimi’s short film Where Does the Time Go..., water is an apt analogy for the concept of time.
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A Nuanced Portrait of Hasidic Brooklyn
The directors of Jesus Camp and Detropia offer an in-depth look at Brooklyn's Hasidic community.
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A Cruel and Comic Allegory of Destroyed Masculinity
Shock, gallows humor, and defanging the alpha male in Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
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Revisiting David Lynch’s Classic Blue Velvet with Behind-the-Scenes Footage
Rich in interviews and ephemera from the making of Lynch's classic, Blue Velvet Revisited is ultimately disappointing as a standalone artistic achievement.
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A Movie Remembers the Artist Who Made Fashion Illustration Fashionable Again
James Crump’s seductive new documentary delves into the fascinating, 1970s universe of the New York-based fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez.
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Starchitects, Sustainability, and Virtual Reality at the Architecture and Design Film Festival
The ninth edition of New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival balances movies about boldface names with documentaries about historic preservation of the future of urbanism.
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In Ken Burns's Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias
By accepting patriotic doctrine even as it claims to present all sides, the epic documentary takes some slippery liberties with truth and history.
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A French Director Who Turned the Experience of May ‘68 into Intimate Cinema
A retrospective of Philippe Garrel's films at Metrograph tracks their evolution from revolutionary hopefulness to disenchantment, hallucinatory metaphor, and poetic autobiography.
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The First Animation Is Film Festival Showcases the Best of Today's Animation
The festival presents exceptional films in all styles of animation, from anime to stop-motion.
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The Spooky, Masterful Film Boris Karloff Starred in After Frankenstein
Director James Whale used expressive cinematography, Karloff's gift for pantomime, and an original approach to fight sequences to inspire a lasting, haunting sense of fear.