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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An Animated Masterpiece by the Unsung Co-Founder of Studio Ghibli
Before 2016, Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday was considered the “lost” Ghibli film.
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In Midnight Traveler, a Refugee Family Documents Their Journeys
For over two years, Hassan Fazili's family filmed each other as they journeyed through Europe, documenting each step of their search for a safe place.