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What to Watch Right Now on the Criterion Channel and OVID
The two streaming sites kicked off this past month with a robust, diverse selection of movies.
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A Filmmaker Captures the Seduction of Prosperity and Its False Promises
Mambéty made films that are political only on a broad, symbolic level, and their subject is the soul of a people who have been tricked into a troubling fate.
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A Filmmaker Explores His Mother's Youth and Parses Her Disturbing Dreams
Breathless Animals, premiering in the US as part of the Art of the Real festival, captures the cadence of nonlinear memory.
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Kronos Quartet Tells Its Story in a Live Documentary
The venerable string quartet is touring A Thousand Thoughts, playing live accompaniment for a documentary about its history and music.
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The Global Culture of Punk On Screen
The series will feature seven films that center on the global influence of punk and will be held in conjunction with the exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986.
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The Tender Turns of the Crime Drama Dogman
Balancing verité grit with sometimes-howling humor, Matteo Garrone's new movie is subtler than what viewers might anticipate.
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A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles
The Now Instant Image Hall is already carving out an identity for itself as a venue for artists no one else in the city will show.
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Donald Glover's Guava Island Is a Visual Delight, and That's the Point
Guava Island is a fun, colorful, anti-capitalist romp that leaves viewers smiling.
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Ash Is Purest White Is a Gangland China Love Story
The writer-director's latest feature film chronicles China's socioeconomic transformation through the eyes of a couple caught up in the criminal underworld.
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Claire Denis on Black Holes, Olafur Eliasson, and the Making of High Life
"This movie is about things we know today about our own galaxy. It's not an unknown future. It's almost here."
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When Classic Hollywood Attempted to Deal with Sexual Violence
In a Lonely Place isn’t so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.
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A B-Movie that Inspired Generations of Filmmakers, Including the French New Wave
A precursor and inspiration for filmmakers from the French New Wave to Arthur Penn, Gun Crazy plays in New York on April 14 and 19.