Film
How Merce Cunningham Worked with Filmmakers to Make the Camera Dance
A series of films installed on the High Line make the camera an intimate actor in experimental dance.
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I Am Cuba, Restored and Reimagined
Newly restored and screening tonight, I Am Cuba raises questions about the ways film negotiates authenticity.
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What to Watch Instead of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Films
Here are 10 movies to stream that complement or are vastly preferable to this year's Oscar darlings.
Art
Netflix’s Participation at the Berlin Film Festival Is Riling Up Cinema
The streaming giant has set its sights on prestige film festivals. But as the controversy surrounding its entry Elisa y Marcela prove, it’s going to be a bumpy road.
Film
A Biographical, Fragmentary Film Is Also the Last for a Filmmaking Couple
Completed by Yervant Gianikian after the death of his partner, Ricci Lucchi, Angela’s Diaries – Two Filmmakers, collages the couple’s meticulous documentation of their lives, work, and travels.
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24 Hours Watching DAU, the Most Ambitious Film Project of All Time
What started as a biopic of Soviet physicist Lev Landau ballooned into a years-long Ukrainian social experiment involving thousands of amateur actors. The resulting 13 feature films are now screening for the first time.
Film
A New Doc on the Midterm Elections Captures the Struggle of Women Candidates
A new documentary, premiered at Sundance, shows how intuition and tireless image and footage capture makes a film.
Film
A Few Gems Among This Year’s Bizarre Oscar-Nominated Shorts
The 15 films nominated for the Academy Awards tackle racism, aging, parenthood, and more.
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s Surreal Films Are Terribly Awkward, Tender, and Triumphant
Five films that inspired Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated The Favourite portray humans who seem to be putting on their bodies and native tongues for the very first time.
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An Intimately Filmed Portrait of a Willfully Fragmented and Mutable Persona
GLUE is a 50-minute portrait of the director Oisín Byrne’s friend and longtime collaborator, a quick-witted and acid-tongued cross-dresser who refuses to adhere to a fixed identity.
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Velvet Buzzsaw Hacks Through Every Art World Cliché
That writer and director Dan Gilroy tackles a subject so incredibly ripe for mockery but goes for the easiest, most tired clichés is quite disappointing.
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Never Look Away Is a Reductive, Tedious Copy of Gerhard Richter’s Life
It is easy to see why this movie would rankle Richter, who has said the director "managed to abuse and grossly distort" his biography.