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When You Could Get a Three-Course Meal and Coffee for 25 Cents in New York

by Mark Asch February 28, 2022March 14, 2022

Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary finds some impressive interviewees, including Mel Brooks and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to remember the bygone vending machine restaurant chain Horn & Hardart.

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‘You Should Feel Disturbed’ — Talking to the Directors of Attica

by Dan Schindel February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

In the wake of the film’s nomination for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry speak to Hyperallergic about the uprising’s ongoing relevance.

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Playground Looks at the Psychological and Physical Carnage of Childhood

by Eileen G'Sell February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

Laura Wandel’s debut film examines the psychological — and physical — carnage wrought between children when grown-ups look the other way.

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Jeen-Yuhs Knows That Kanye West Isn’t a Riddle That Can be Solved

by Juan Barquin February 21, 2022February 18, 2022

The gargantuan three-part documentary follows the famous, controversial rapper for 20 years, capturing his brilliance and contradictions.

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Amidst Renovations, the Chelsea Hotel Dreams of Its Old Self

by Dan Schindel February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

The documentary Dreaming Walls contrasts the New York icon’s glory days with the current residents’ struggle to preserve the building.

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The Joyful Return of a Trans Icon and Electronic Music Pioneer

by Billy Anania February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

In the 36 years since recording the seminal Keyboard Fantasies, Beverly Glenn-Copeland has risen from elusive singer-songwriter to global phenomenon.

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The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics

by Ryan Swen February 13, 2022February 12, 2022

Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.

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The Worst Person in the World Is Among the Best Portraits of Modern Womanhood

by Eileen G'Sell February 9, 2022March 14, 2022

Part of the glory of the film is that its heroine’s choices, however unexpected, are taken seriously.

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Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust

by Dan Schindel February 8, 2022February 8, 2022

What can be learned from just a short clip from a 1938 vacation film? The documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening shows that it can be quite a bit.

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The Jackass Series Deserves Serious Recognition as Documentary Art

by Juan Barquin February 6, 2022February 15, 2022

The infamously crude TV and film franchise continues a tradition of cinematic physical comedy going back to the Silent Era.

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Pedro Almodóvar Presents a Beguiling Thriller About Motherhood

by Nadine Smith January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit play two new mothers from very different backgrounds in the Spanish director’s latest study in female interiority.

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Andres Serrano’s Sensationalistic Flop About January 6

by Kriston Capps January 10, 2022January 24, 2022

Insurrection is a blunt effort by an artist to find a sensational edge to a national tragedy.

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