Film
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.
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Three New Documentaries Chronicle the Careers of Game-Changing New York Artists
At Doc NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, directors examine the lives and works of artists Barbara Rubin, Jay Maisel, and Christo.
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A Mural Reimagines the History of a 19th-Century Tongan Club
Auckland-based artist Benjamin Work painted a Manhattan mural that activates the narrative history of a Tongan club in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Two Feminist Directors Who Exposed the Trials of Working Class Women
While the female protagonists in Barbara Loden's Wanda and Susan Seidelman's Smithereens may be lost — and legitimately poor — the one thing they are not is self-pitying.
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Björk’s Movie Debut, The Juniper Tree, Is Restored and Revisited
The movie was the first feature from Nietzchka Keene, who worked on microscopic budgets, often incorporating mythological or supernatural elements.
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In Cam, a Webcam Model’s Persona Takes on a Mind of Its Own
Former sex worker Isa Mazzei's much-hyped new horror film asks what you would do if the self you presented online became its own independent being.
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40 Years of Margarethe von Trotta's Fiercely Feminist Films
A retrospective of the New German Cinema director's influential work marks the release of her latest documentary, Searching for Ingmar Bergman.