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Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents
The George Eastman Museum's Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.
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A Film About Falling in Love and Geeking Out About Modernism
Set in the eponymous Indiana town, Kogonada's Columbus is a film about architecture with an Asian American aesthetic.
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A Polish Filmmaker Explores Trans Identity Through Abstraction
Wojciech Puś's Endless is loosely based on the life of a trans woman, but it is not about a journey from point A to point B.
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Tracking a Warhol Brillo Box's Journey Through the Art Market
In a new short documentary, Lisanne Skyler follows the trajectory of a Warhol sculpture her father bought when she was an infant.
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Rediscovering Lois Weber, Who Made Socially Conscious Silent Films
Film Forum is paying tribute to the actress, director, and producer who made over 130 films at a time when women behind the camera were rare.
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A Black Girl's Body You Might Save From Drowning
Adapted from a play, Bronx Gothic is a must-see film that will linger with you for days.
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Michael Snow Takes Capitalism to Comic, Cartoonish Extremes
The moving image artist's 2002 video *Corpus Callosum launches an onslaught of video effects at indifferent office workers and couch potatoes.
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The Life Story of Blade Runner’s Screenwriter, Told Through His Minor Movie Roles
The way director Michael Almereyda mines images of Hampton Fancher’s decades of acting work makes Escapes unique among film industry documentaries.
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John Berger and Alain Tanner’s Films About Life After Political Failure
John Berger's attraction to the primacy of storytelling led him to the Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner, who together collaborated on a series of three films, now showing at Metrograph.
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A Korean Punk Band’s Struggles with Censorship
Jung Yoon-Suk’s documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno tells the story of the college punk duo Bamseom Pirates and the arrest of the band’s producer after posting controversial tweets.
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In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist
Errol Morris's film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful.
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A Documentary Recap of Reagan’s Presidency, the Original Political Reality TV Show
Composed entirely of archival footage and news reports, The Reagan Show highlights how the 40th US President treated his time in office as an extension of his acting career.