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Inventor Nikola Tesla Gets a Suitably Unusual Biopic

by Dan Schindel August 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Tesla is less “the story of Tesla” and more a dialogue with the audience about the infamously eccentric figure.

A Joan of Arc Film Brings the Saint Down to Earth

by Beatrice Loayza August 6, 2019August 7, 2019

An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette’s newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second.

The New Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Is Ironically Timid

by Dan Schindel March 7, 2019March 6, 2019

The movie barely feels invested in Mapplethorpe’s art, much less in trying to replicate its sensibility.

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