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A Darkly Comic Animated Film Set on China's Urban-Rural Fringe
Have a Nice Day is a stark, ruthless, and true-to-life movie about people living on the urban-rural fringe of China today.
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A Documentary Lays Bare the Absurdity of the Art Market
The Price of Everything, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, looks at the trends and gambles of the art market.
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A New Documentary Reveals the Living, Breathing Joseph Beuys
For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.
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Black Mirror's "Black Museum" Episode Is a Revenge Fantasy That Comes Up Short
In this popular episode, we're presented with a symbolic reckoning against a system that remains unscathed.
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As Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Closes, Remembering Its Charm and History
The theater between 62nd and 63rd streets on Broadway will close for good, after 37 years, on January 31.
Books
The Dynamic Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s and '30s
Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.
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Antonioni's Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution
Antonioni's experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.
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The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City, directed by Chad Freidrichs, revisits the late 1960s plan for a city in Minnesota that would solve urban problems through futuristic technology and design.
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Animals Cope with Apocalypse in a Hand-Drawn Animated Film
Alberto Vázquez's Birdboy seeks a visual language for dealing with adult themes through traditionally childlike devices.
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In The Shape of Water, Small Acts of Rebellion Make a Splash
Guillermo del Toro's latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.
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An Experimental Softcore Porn Series Is Revived in Japan
Last year, Nikkatsu rebooted its Roman Porno series with five new films, two of which are currently streaming on the platform Mubi.
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A Queer Love Story That's Gorgeous, If Not Groundbreaking
Is Call Me By Your Name’s queer coming-of-age love story still radical if its protagonists are beautiful white men?