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Overcoming Isolation Through Mukbang, the Subculture Where People Watch You Eat

Pam Nasr's short film Clams Casino centers on a young woman struggling to reconnect with her mother but successfully connecting to thousands of viewers and eaters online.

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The Art of the Museum Heist Movie, from How to Steal a Million to Ocean's 8

The new film, which revolves around a plan to rob the Met Gala, is the latest addition to the micro-genre of art and museum heist movies.

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The Everyday Lives of Male Bodybuilders

A Skin So Soft follows six bodybuilders, of varying ages, ethnicities, and levels of mass, in the lead-up to a local competition.

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Four Artists on How Motherhood Impacted Their Lives and Careers

A KCET documentary looks at artists who have made motherhood a part of their careers, even as they have navigated the difficulties of the art world.

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The Film Studio that Perfected Cheap Horror Movies in the 1950s

A two-part series at the Quad Cinema chronicles the cheaply made and formally rich horror movies that the UK's Hammer Films began producing in the 1950s.

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Agnès Varda's Utopian Musical Homage to Feminism from the 1970s

One Sings, the Other Doesn't, Varda's precious and poignant feminist musical from 1977 has been restored.

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Cute Cartoon Animals Cope with Office Drudgery in Aggretsuko

The new Netflix series, based on characters developed by Hello Kitty creator Sanrio, subverts the fantastical expectations of most anime narratives.

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An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others

We watch Ellen Berkenblit drawing. She is left-handed and uses charcoal. She rubs lines out and never looks at the camera.

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Bruce LaBruce Misfires with an Awkward Marriage of Punk and Camp

The provocative auteur's latest, The Misandrists, attempts a tongue-in-cheek critique of radical feminism.

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One Man’s Quixotic Quest to Walk Every Mile of New York City

The World Before Your Feet follows Matt Green as he spends years walking all 8,000 miles of New York City's roads, sidewalks, parks, cemeteries, and overlooked edges.

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In Her Films, Chris Kraus Revels in Art's Failure

The level of dedication required to see all nine films in her solo exhibition feels both deserved and important, since her films have largely been critically and commercially overlooked.

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That Summer Offers a More Human Look at the Women of Grey Gardens

As a "prequel" look at the Beales, That Summer makes for a fascinating contrast between the icons they have been turned into and the people they were before then.