In Brief
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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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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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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Communion Los Angeles visits the different communities the 110 is carved through, from the mountains to the sea.
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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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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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Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
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A new film tells the story of Yayoi Kusama’s reckoning with her own demons and those of the artworld.
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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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Maysaloun Hamoud’s film about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv rattles stereotypes.
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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.
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With just a handful of films to his name, Rice is a seminal, if little seen, New York filmmaker who embraced a rowdy improvisational approach.