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Agnès Varda's Golden State Documentaries, from the Black Panthers to LA Muralists
Two films by Varda, made in California 12 years apart, are screening this Friday at the Anthology Film Archives.
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A Century’s Worth of Movies About Cross-Dressing and Drag
The series Cross-Dressing and Drag on Screen at the Anthology Film Archives highlights drag’s ubiquity across time, place, and social milieu.
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Monkey Around with a Simian Cinema Series
Anthology Film Archives’ latest series explores fictional, factual, and farcical portrayals of monkeys in movies.
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A Documentary on Tony Conrad's Shape-Shifting Legacy
A new documentary about the experimental musician, filmmaker, and artist, details his many influential projects while illuminating countless others we know very little about — for now.
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A 1969 Film Offers Lessons in Resistance
Robert Kramer's 1969 film Ice, about a group of revolutionaries in New York City, is part of a series of dystopian movies screening at Anthology Film Archives to coincide with Donald Trump's inauguration.
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The Crude and Chaotic Art of “Strata-Cut” Claymation
David Daniels’s animation is explosive.
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A Series Pays Tribute to Jack Smith's Favorite Films
On the recent Friday the 13th, Jack Smith’s disembodied voice rattled through Anthology Film Archives.
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The Refined Sloppiness of a No Wave Cinema Gem
Eric Mitchell once described his 1978 No Wave film Kidnapped as “a 1960s underground movie happening today.”
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The Beat Artist Who Rescued Paper Planes from the Streets of NYC
Prolific 20th-century polymath Harry Smith picked up every paper airplane he saw on the streets of Manhattan from 1961 to 1983.
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An Experimental Filmmaker's On-Screen Exorcisms
Luther Price keeps you guessing.
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Blood, Guts, and Corporate Sponsorships
Even for a jaded explorer in cinema’s nether regions, Northville Cemetery Massacre is a sleazy trip. “It’s a pretty nasty exploitation film,” Jon Dieringer, the programmer behind Anthology Film Archives’ current series, Industrial Terror, concedes, before detailing the specifics: rape, police brutal
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A Portuguese Filmmaker with the Eye of a Dutch Master
A turn-of-the-century period piece, largely without a plot, that takes place almost entirely in a single room — and directed by a man who’s almost as old as the medium within which he works, cinema itself? Of course. Why not?