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A scene from The Shape of Water, featuring Doug Jones and Sally Hawkins (all images courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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In The Shape of Water, Small Acts of Rebellion Make a Splash

by Mengna Da December 13, 2017December 14, 2017

Guillermo del Toroโ€™s latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.

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An Experimental Softcore Porn Series Is Revived in Japan

by Justine Smith December 12, 2017December 11, 2017

Last year, Nikkatsu rebooted its Roman Porno series with five new films, two of which are currently streaming on the platform Mubi.

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A Queer Love Story Thatโ€™s Gorgeous, If Not Groundbreaking

by James Loop December 6, 2017December 5, 2017

Is Call Me By Your Nameโ€™s queer coming-of-age love story still radical if its protagonists are beautiful white men?

A scene from The Square, a Magnolia Pictures release
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A Dark Comedy Finds Societyโ€™s Problems Reflected in the Art World

by Craig Hubert November 27, 2017May 23, 2022

Swedish director Ruben ร–stlundโ€™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

by Allison Meier November 22, 2017

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

by Seph Rodney November 17, 2017November 17, 2017

In Kambui Olujimiโ€™s short film Where Does the Time Goโ€ฆ, water is an apt analogy for the concept of time.

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A Nuanced Portrait of Hasidic Brooklyn

by Jon Hogan November 15, 2017

The directors of Jesus Camp and Detropia offer an in-depth look at Brooklynโ€™s Hasidic community.

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A Cruel and Comic Allegory of Destroyed Masculinity

by Eileen G'Sell November 15, 2017November 15, 2017

Shock, gallows humor, and defanging the alpha male in Yorgos Lanthimosโ€™s The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

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Revisiting David Lynchโ€™s Classic Blue Velvet with Behind-the-Scenes Footage

by Jon Hogan November 13, 2017

Rich in interviews and ephemera from the making of Lynchโ€™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

by Muri Assunรงรฃo November 8, 2017

James Crumpโ€™s seductive new documentary delves into the fascinating, 1970s universe of the New York-based fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez.

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In Ken Burnsโ€™s Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias

by Dan Schindel October 27, 2017April 15, 2021

By accepting patriotic doctrine even as it claims to present all sides, the epic documentary takes some slippery liberties with truth and history.

Franรงois (Louis Garrel) in Frontier of Dawn (courtesy of IFC Films)
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A French Director Who Turned the Experience of May โ€˜68 into Intimate Cinema

by Craig Hubert October 26, 2017

A retrospective of Philippe Garrelโ€™s films at Metrograph tracks their evolution from revolutionary hopefulness to disenchantment, hallucinatory metaphor, and poetic autobiography.

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