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A Grandmother’s Clutter Is Transformed into Intricate Dioramas in This Magical Realist Film
In 306 Hollywood, two sibling filmmakers open up the house in which their grandmother lived for 70 years and the sea of objects within it.
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In Brief
Kenya Temporarily Lifts Ban on Film for Portraying Queer Romance
The director of Rafiki, Wanuri Kahiu, sued the Kenyan government to lift a national censorship that rendered the film ineligible for the Academy Award's Best Foreign Language Film accolade.
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These Virtual Reality Films Are Blazing a New Trail in Storytelling and Art
Strap on a headset and find yourself on a flooding island halfway around the world or in the body of a Homeland Security interrogator.
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Jill Magid’s Epic Quest to Unlock Luis Barragán’s Archives Is Now a Movie
The Proposal chronicles the artist's attempts at accessing the architect's archives, which famously involved exhuming some of his ashes.
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Filming California’s Oldest Freeway and the Communities It Traverses
Communion Los Angeles visits the different communities the 110 is carved through, from the mountains to the sea.
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How Capitalist Power Compensates for Racial Oppression in Crazy Rich Asians
Obscene wealth, and its spectacular power to compensate for racial loss, is the central protagonist we are invited to cheer on in Crazy Rich Asians.
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Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams
Sullivan’s film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
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A Movie Uncovers Unpublished Letters Written to Ms. Magazine in the 1970s
Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
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To Infinity and Beyond, Yayoi Kusama Grapples With Conventions
A new film tells the story of Yayoi Kusama’s reckoning with her own demons and those of the artworld.
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From Julian Schnabel’s van Gogh Film to a New Godard at the 56th New York Film Festival
Standouts at this year's New York Film Festival range from a Vincent van Gogh biopic by Julian Schnabel to a documentary on free jazz, with a range of great, art-inflected offerings in between.
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The Double Bind of Palestinian Women in Israeli Society
Maysaloun Hamoud’s film about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv rattles stereotypes.
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A Surrealist Filmmaker's Legacy of Feminism and Cinematic Innovation
Germaine Dulac may have just been too far ahead of her time as a queer woman filmmaker, and too prodigious in her output to receive proper recognition in any category.