Film Review
To Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York
Fred Camper's contemplative film "Suicide Note" was born out of grief and a city in collapse.
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This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way
In Mani Haghighi’s new film, an artist’s extensive archive draws the ire of the authorities.
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Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections
Through his “distance montage” technique, the Armenian filmmaker’s masterpieces are built around impressions, not stories.
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Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”
Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse, who has a knack for patient observation, follows a single family on a quest to find a miracle.
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The Rough-and-Ready Brilliance of Barbara Hammer’s “Nitrate Kisses”
Newly restored in 4K, the film feels prescient as groups are once again being scapegoated for public health crises and financial instability.
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A Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix
“I Want Your Sex” is a caricature of the art world more than an actually incisive critique, but it’s funner that way.
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Barbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens
“Barbara Forever” is both a biography and a conversation the late filmmaker has with herself.
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The Thorny Politics of Protest Photography
A new documentary follows the work of activist and photographer Misan Harriman, but risks overly aestheticizing the movements he captures.
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A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
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Four Centuries Later, We Still Don't Get Caravaggio
A British docudrama serves as a salutary primer on the Baroque master’s greatest works, but we should be wary of what it tells us about the personality of its subject.
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Georgia O’Keeffe the Wanderer
A new documentary presents the artist as a perpetual voyager, generously highlighting her lesser-known work and combating myths about her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz.
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“I Shot Andy Warhol” Upends the Myth of the Great Man
The radical feminist author of “SCUM Manifesto” and the bygone world of Warhol’s Factory come to life in the 1996 film, now restored to 4K.