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An Artist Duo’s Ingenious Movie About US Military Bases in Japan
The documentary, titled Making a Perfect Donut, is particularly timely given protests currently going on over the construction of a new base in Henoko.
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Netflix and Hulu Release Contrasting Documentaries on the Fyre Festival Scandal
Hulu got out of the gate early, dropping Fyre Fraud as a surprise one week ahead of Netflix's planned release of Fyre. Watching the films, an interesting contrast emerges.
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A Chronicler of Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Blurs Fact and Fiction
At the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival, audiences will get to see different sides of Sergei Loznitsa, who examines the past, the present, and where they intersect.
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Pasolini’s Felt Duty to be Scandalous
The first of a three-part retrospective of Pasolini’s films began at Metrograph, starting at the end of Pasolini’s career with the films that are among his most conflicted, comic, and punishing.
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Barry Jenkins’s Tender Adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk
Jenkins brings a visual richness to the story, accentuating the emotional undertones of Baldwin’s words.
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Miami Told Through Old Photographs and Lost Stories
Screening in New York for the holidays, a new film draws on photos Gary Monroe and Andy Sweet took as a part of the Miami Beach Photographic Project through the 1970s and into the early 80s.
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An Enchanting Film About How its Director Came to Be a Filmmaker
Shirkers, an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity, delivers a story of ultimate geekiness, as director Sandi Tan sketches a portrait of her younger self.
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A New Film Offers Us a Group Portrait of Sex Workers
Petra Bauer’s new film Workers! documents an occupation by sex workers, a group in a marginal profession that Trade Unions rarely stand up for and which the public hardly ever sees at work.
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In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón Reimagines His Childhood Through the Eyes of His Maid
The acclaimed director's new black-and-white drama, Roma, is a moving chronicle of family strife and class struggles in 1970s Mexico City.
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A Kiss in a 1898 Silent Film Is the Earliest Cinematic Depiction of Black Love
The film, Something Good–Negro Kiss, subverts the corrupt racism imbued in the history of American minstrelsy. The film will join the Library of Congress's National Film Registry for its significance in American culture.
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In Vox Lux, Pop Music Is a Shield Against Contemporary Horrors
Natalie Portman stars as a pop star who survived a school shooting in director Brady Corbet's new film about the desensitizing powers of idol worship.
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"Strippers Are Artists": A Documentary Celebrates Famed Portland Performer Viva Las Vegas
Thank You for Supporting the Arts chronicles the career of a writer, musician, and breast cancer survivor who sees her stripping as an art form.